RIGHT SPEAK: The Hype About Aliens, UAPs, And ‘Disclosure’ Isn’t What It Appears To Be: What if UAP Sightings and Alien Abduction Accounts aren’t Evidence of Extraterrestrial Life, but of Supernatural Life?

The Hype About Aliens, UAPs, And ‘Disclosure’ Isn’t What It Appears To Be:

What if UAP sightings and alien abduction accounts aren’t evidence of extraterrestrial life, but of supernatural life?

Do aliens walk among us? Has the government been covering up their existence for decades? In recent years the question of extraterrestrial life, and the fraught issue of government disclosure, has moved from science fiction to the news cycle. Aliens and UFOs — now called UAPs, or Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena — aren’t just the subject of kooky podcasts and sci-fi films, but congressional hearings and White House document dumps.
And now Steven Spielberg, right on cue, is out with a big alien film, Disclosure Day, about these very questions. But unlike his other famous alien movies (ET, War of the Worlds, Close Encounters of the Third Kind) he’s talking about this one as if it were more documentary than sci-fi. In a recent interview, he said Disclosure Day will cause religious people to question their faith. Most alien films, including Spielberg’s past efforts, have focused on the question of whether aliens exist. This one, he says, will explore what the existence of aliens might mean for religious belief systems that have placed mankind at the center of God’s creation, and will “take the position of the Church.”

“What does this do to the fundamental beliefs that many of us have? Is God our God only on this planet, or is God a God for every system where there’s civilization, intelligent life, and even developing life?” he said.

Spielberg seems to think the existence of an advanced alien civilization would shatter, or at least re-order, the religious commitments of us earthlings, especially Christians who believe that God has fully revealed himself in His Son, Jesus Christ. The notion that an advanced alien species would shake or even break that faith has been the assumption of a lot of sci-fi over the years, much of which posits a fundamentally materialist view of the cosmos. If super-intelligent aliens really exist, then maybe all our notions about the supernatural and the spiritual have been wrong, and will become untenable in the light of higher alien civilizations.

Spencer Klavan argues in the Wall Street Journal that that’s not necessarily so. Aliens, he says, “might astound us … by finding our ideas about creation consonant with, even similar to, their own.” Rather than affirm the materialist assumptions of the modern era, or undermine the foundations of religious belief, an alien civilization might be “equally likely to strengthen them beyond measure.” It’s not an unprecedented view. Indeed, as Klavan notes, C.S. Lewis posits something similar in his space trilogy, imagining rational animals on Mars and an unfallen world on Venus, all beloved children of the Christian God.

But setting aside the theological and scriptural problems with both Klavan and Lewis’ speculations, there is another possibility that must be taken seriously with regard to UAPs and disclosure. That’s the view articulated recently by Vice President J.D. Vance, that UAP phenomena are not caused by creatures from outer space but creatures from beyond space and time — that they are demons, not aliens. “When I hear about extra-natural phenomenon, that’s where I go, to the Christian understanding that there’s a lot of good out there, but there’s also evil out there,” he said. “I think that one of the devil’s great tricks is to convince people he never existed.”

Here Vance is referencing not only the idea that there is some kind of deception at work in the UAP discourse, but also something most Christians are familiar with, which is spelled out explicitly in the Nicene Creed, that God is “maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible.” Christians of course believe God created the earth and all that is in it, but also created immaterial (invisible) beings, which scripture calls the angelic host of heaven. Some of these angels rebelled and turned to evil, and Christians understand them to be demons or devils, the enemies of mankind.

It would not be inaccurate to call these immaterial creatures “vast cosmic intelligences,” or even “multidimensional beings,” as some in the UAP world refer to aliens. At the very least, we can say that every culture in human history prior to World War II would have known such beings to be spirits, whether good or bad or something in between. Only since the late 1940s, after mainstream western society had adopted a strict materialist mindset (and after the 1947 Roswell incident launched a million UFO conspiracy theories), did we adopt the idea that UAP or “alien” encounters must involve physical creatures and craft from outer space.

In a materialist age, it would make sense that malign spirits, the demons of Christianity, would want to appear as something plausible to modern man, something he was prepared to believe was “real.” And for a materialist it is indeed easier to believe in little green men and flying saucers than the appearance, in whatever form, of a fallen angel. As the late Orthodox priest Seraphim Rose argued in a chapter on UFOs in his 1975 book, Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future, UFO sightings first began in the 1940s because popular science fiction literature had groomed modern society to accept it: “What were men prepared to see in the sky?”
But for a properly catechized Christian, the evidence points to something else. For example, the images and videos related to UAPs that were declassified by the Trump administration last month, along with the leaked footage of UAPs first reported by The New York Times in 2017, seem to show objects defying the laws of physics. Egg-shaped craft flying hundreds of miles per hour with no heat signature, stopping on a dime, then plunging into the ocean with no change in velocity. What’s more, pilots involved in these sightings have said that while these UAPs were visible on everyone’s instruments, they were only physically visible out the cockpit window to some pilots and not others. Now what could do something like that?

In the absence of any credible physical evidence, all we have to go on for now are these apparitions picked up by military sensors and the accounts of purported eyewitnesses. There are now decades of such accounts, and an overwhelming majority of them have involved psychological or supernatural elements that are not neatly explained by a materialist narrative about an advanced extraterrestrial species visiting earth.
They are in fact much more consonant with accounts of demonic possession and oppression, which is one reason why prominent Catholic exorcists like Fr. Chad Ripperger have spoken out recently on this very question. In a March appearance on the popular Shawn Ryan podcast, Ripperger called the UAP phenomena a “ruse,” and “diabolic in nature,” saying that “if you strip the veneer of the ‘alien’ aspect of it off, that in point of fact what you’re dealing with are just demons.” --->READ MORE HERE