I found myself smiling as I read the interview with William Shatner Vulture Chatroom. This guy is so funny. I enjoyed the part of the interview where he was propositioned by Koko the gorilla. But then he piqued my curiosity when he fessed up to lying about his UFO experience. Since I don’t follow UFO stories as much as ghost stories, I did a bit of research to see what I could find. Here is one variation of the story.

Quoted from Blurtit

. . . Shatner had a bizarre UFO experience while riding his motorcycle with friends in the Mojave desert. Supposedly Shatner’s bike stopped working properly. He crashed and became disoriented and his friends mysteriously lost track of him. Shatner claimed to see some kind of shadowy apparition beckoning him from the edge of the horizon. He followed this apparition for hours, eventually arriving at a petrol station where Shatner claimed he saw a silvery, metallic disc hovering overhead.

My search turned up another interesting tidbit (see link below), a video Shatner did with his daughter, Liz. The part where he talks about life on Mars is at the end of the segment, but you can fast-forward to the end. Be prepared for some vague claims.

Shatner Claims to Know About Life on Mars . . . Really