-Oh, it's so good to be out of my house.
[ Laughter ] -I mean, with a full audience.
How's that feel? Come on. -Oh, my God, it feels so good.
I didn't know how much I needed it.
[ Cheers and applause ] -Yeah. Right? We need it.
I want to get into the book,
but I have a bigger thing I want to talk to you about.
This is very exciting for me because I --
This is real. -Mm-hmm.
Oh, we're going in.
-We're going to go in. [ Laughter ]
You had an experience with a UFO.
-Yes, I did.
I did. Yes.
-Walk me through it.
Did you know that you were going to have this experience?
-I did not know, as many people don't.
[ Laughter ]
But, yeah, so I am a huge alien, paranormal conspiracist.
It's my hobby.
I love that more than anything else in the world.
And I was just -- I was in the middle of Hollywood
and I was walking down Santa Monica Boulevard.
-Nighttime, daytime? -Daytime.
Middle of the day. -Daytime UFO?
-Daytime. Daytime UFO, yeah. [ Laughter ]
And so I just saw this thing hovering in the sky
and I remember looking up thinking like,
"This can't be real." Like, "I want this too much." You know?
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. [ Laughter ]
You're like, "Yeah, come on."
-So I whipped out my camera and it was like a cylinder shape
and it was not moving with the wind.
It was moving kind of like -- almost like a dog's tail.
Just like this, just hovering, several hundred feet above me.
-This is a UFO. So, say that's a UFO.
-Okay, I'm trying to do this -- This is gonna look phallic.
[ Laughter ]
-Alright. -Basically like this.
-So it's that? -Yeah. Am I turning you on?
[ Laughter ]
-But, wait, so it's not this way?
-It was not this way. No, no. It was --
[ Laughter ]
-Sorry, get your mind out of the --
-It was happy to see me.
[ Laughter ]
-We're talking about UFOs here. -Yeah.
-So it's like almost missile-like.
-Missile -- yes, that's a great way of putting it, yeah.
And it was very -- it wasn't a balloon
because it was very bottom-heavy, like myself.
[ Laughter ] -Give me that. Give me that.
-Yeah, so I caught a video of it and, yeah, I think we have it.
-Chris brought the video. This is unbelievable.
This is real footage of Chris Colfer's UFO sighting.
Take a look at this.
[ Laughter ]
-I see it. -There it is.
Wait. I see this. -I mean --
Very creepy. [ Laughter ]
Yeah. So I think -- Yeah.
[ Applause ] Thank you. Yeah.
-That's wild that you saw it,
and you thought enough to bring your phone out.
-Right, right. And I sent it to everyone I knew and, like,
you would have thought I won like a Pulitzer,
because everyone was like, "Oh, Chris, congratulations.
You've been working for this for so long."
[ Laughter ]
-It finally happened!
-God has a plan. God has a plan. [ Laughter ]
-"God has a plan."
And I believe it. I believe it was a UFO.
I want to talk about your book, "A Tale of Sorcery."
This is your 18th book. -Mm-hmm.
-Congrats on these. How much time --
They take up all of your -- This is years of work.
-Yeah.
-And do you have, like, deadlines you have to get to?
-Lot of deadlines, yeah.
And yeah, no, it is a lot of work
and it requires so much self-discipline.
And I think -- I'm wrapping up --
It's a trilogy, and I'm wrapping up the trilogy,
and I think I'm ending it on a nice spot.
So I think I'm going to take a little bit of a break
from writing and just, you know, let the muscle
kind of relax a little bit.
And also, like, this weird thing happened.
I was at a bar, and this man came over
and just started flirting with me.
Like aggressively flirting with me and offered to get me a drink
and all this stuff, and I politely declined
because I'm taken and he was like, "Oh, that's okay.
By the way, I loved your books when I was a kid."
[ Laughter ]
And I said, I said, "Okay, that's not possible
because the first one came out nine years ago
and that would have made you --" and he goes, "11."
[ Laughter ]
-Wow. -And it was really traumatic,
so I think I'm going to take a little break.
[ Laughter and applause ] Yeah.
-That spooked you.
You go, "That's it. I'm done. I got to take a little break."
I understand. I understand. -Yeah, yeah.
-But these are great books.
I mean, you got to be --
You have to be proud of what you've done.
-Oh, thank you. Yeah, I am.
And I know, like, a lot of people told me
I could never do this because of who and what I was.
So I am very proud that I'm able to show kids
that someone like us, someone like me can do it,
and I'm really proud of
how many other kids I've inspired to write,
because I know how therapeutic writing was for me growing up,
and it was a constant escape whenever you needed one.
So, yeah, I'm really happy
I'm encouraging kids to put pen to paper.
-On behalf of all the parents, thanks for doing all this stuff.
We love these books. -Oh, thank you so much.
-Read! -Thank you.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Get your kids out there reading.
Chris Colfer, everybody!
"A Tale of Sorcery" is available now.
It's out today.