In honor of Kurt Russell's milestone 75th birthday on Tuesday, March 17, Us Weekly is breaking down some interesting facts about the legendary actor. For starters, Russell was the pilot who reported the Phoenix Lights, a famous 1997 mass UFO sighting. "I was flying [his son Oliver Hudson] to go see his girlfriend, and we were on approach," the actor revealed in a 2017 BBC interview. "I saw six lights over the airport in absolute uniform in a V shape.