{"id":2613295,"date":"2026-06-11T07:57:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-hype-about-aliens-uaps-and-disclosure-isnt-what-it-appears-to-be\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T08:03:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:03:46","slug":"the-hype-about-aliens-uaps-and-disclosure-isnt-what-it-appears-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-hype-about-aliens-uaps-and-disclosure-isnt-what-it-appears-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Aliens, UAPs, And \u2018Disclosure\u2019 Aren&#8217;t What They Appear To Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-hype-about-aliens-uaps-and-disclosure-isnt-what-it-appears-to-be%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2613295&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>this piece argues that recent mainstream attention to uaps (formerly UFOs)-including government releases and major film marketing-should not be understood only as evidence of extraterrestrial visitors. It discusses Steven Spielberg\u2019s *Disclosure Day*, which the author says treats the implications of alien existence for religion rather than focusing mainly on whether aliens exist. The article then contrasts that framing with the view attributed to Vice President J.D.Vance: that the phenomena might potentially be demonic beings rather than alien life.<\/p>\n<p>From there, the author lays out a Christian (particularly Catholic and Orthodox) interpretation of UAP reports, claiming that in a modern materialist era people became more likely to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >reinterpret longstanding \u201cspirit\u201d concepts<\/a> as physical \u201caliens,\u201d especially after mid-20th-century UFO culture took off. The article points to declassified military footage and sensor stories as examples of unexplained behaviour (e.g., sudden stops, extreme speeds, inconsistent visibility), but argues that the broader pattern of accounts aligns more with supernatural or demonic frameworks than with a straightforward \u201cadvanced alien\u201d model.<\/p>\n<p>It further cites prominent exorcists-especially Fr. Chad Ripperger and Monsignor Stephen Rossetti-who say many or moast UFO sightings are diabolical deception, using similarities between alien abduction narratives and possession accounts. The author then describes how Rossetti\u2019s remarks drew institutional backlash: Washington Archbishop Cardinal Robert McElroy removed him from his exorcist role and severed ties with Rossetti\u2019s spiritual renewal center, reportedly because Rossetti\u2019s comments were seen as undermining Church teaching-even though the author suggests the disagreement may reflect broader discomfort with associating UAPs with demons.<\/p>\n<p>the article concludes by arguing that as Western society moves away from strict materialism, increasingly \u201cunified\u201d explanations for uaps become harder to sustain, and that a religious interpretation-demons masquerading as \u201caliens\u201d or offering false salvation-fits the phenomenon better.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>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 \u2014 now called UAPs, or Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena \u2014 aren\u2019t just the subject of kooky podcasts and sci-fi films, but congressional hearings and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.war.gov\/ufo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">White House document dumps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And now Steven Spielberg, right on cue, is out with a big alien film, <em>Disclosure Day<\/em>, about these very questions. But unlike his other famous alien movies (<em>ET<\/em>, <em>War of the Worlds<\/em>, <em>Close Encounters of the Third Kind<\/em>) he\u2019s talking about this one as if it were more documentary than sci-fi. In <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShadowofEzra\/status\/2063798334364536879?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a recent interview<\/a>, he said <em>Disclosure Day<\/em> will cause religious people to question their faith. Most alien films, including Spielberg\u2019s 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/not-everyone-can-become-an-american\/\" title=\"Not Everyone Can Become An American\">religious belief systems<\/a> that have placed mankind at the center of God\u2019s creation, and will \u201ctake the position of the Church.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat 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 <em>every<\/em> system where there\u2019s civilization, intelligent life, and even developing life?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/predator-35-years-later-producer-john-davis-recalls-how-the-iconic-action-franchise-was-first-created\/\" title=\"&quot;Predator&quot; 35 Years Later: Producer John Davis Recalls How The Iconic Action Franchise Was First Created\">advanced alien species<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer Klavan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/opinion\/free-expression\/are-you-there-god-its-me-spielberg-7a6ef684\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">argues<\/a> in the Wall Street Journal that that\u2019s not necessarily so. Aliens, he says, \u201cmight astound us \u2026 by finding our ideas about creation consonant with, even similar to, their own.\u201d Rather than affirm the materialist assumptions of the modern era, or undermine the foundations of religious belief, an alien civilization might be \u201cequally likely to strengthen them beyond measure.\u201d It\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>But setting aside the theological and scriptural problems with both Klavan and Lewis\u2019 speculations, there is another possibility that must be taken seriously with regard to UAPs and disclosure. That\u2019s the view <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bennyjohnson\/status\/2037611400223179189?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">articulated recently<\/a> by Vice President J.D. Vance, that UAP phenomena are not caused by creatures from outer space but creatures from beyond space and time \u2014 that they are demons, not aliens. \u201cWhen I hear about extra-natural phenomenon, that\u2019s where I go, to the Christian understanding that there\u2019s a lot of good out there, but there\u2019s also evil out there,\u201d he said. \u201cI think that one of the devil\u2019s great tricks is to convince people he never existed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201cmaker of heaven and earth, of <em>all things visible and invisible<\/em>.\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>It would not be inaccurate to call these immaterial creatures \u201cvast cosmic intelligences,\u201d or even \u201cmultidimensional beings,\u201d 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 \u201calien\u201d encounters must involve physical creatures and craft from outer space.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201creal.\u201d 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, <em>Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future<\/em>, UFO sightings first began in the 1940s because popular science fiction literature had groomed modern society to accept it: \u201cWhat were men prepared to see in the sky?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/16\/us\/politics\/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first reported<\/a> 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\u2019s more, pilots involved in these sightings have said that while these UAPs were visible on everyone\u2019s instruments, they were only physically visible out the cockpit window to some pilots and not others. Now what could do something like that?<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vH5h6W2MrPI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">March appearance<\/a> on the popular Shawn Ryan podcast, Ripperger called the UAP phenomena a \u201cruse,\u201d and \u201cdiabolic in nature,\u201d saying that \u201cif you strip the veneer of the \u2018alien\u2019 aspect of it off, that in point of fact what you\u2019re dealing with are just demons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He points to the many accounts of alien abductees crying out to Jesus in their distress and instantly ending the experience. He points to what aliens purportedly do in abduction scenarios, which is identical to what demons do in possession scenarios. He points to the type of things the \u201caliens\u201d in these encounters say they want, to be saviors of humanity, to usher in a new era of civilization \u2014 the very things the demons want, according to Ripperger. (Fr. Rose, the Orthodox priest, also wrote about this, referencing the prominent computer scientist and ufologist Jacques Vall\u00e9e, who \u201cnotes the similarity between UFO encounters and occult initiation rituals which \u2018open the mind\u2019 to a \u2018new set of symbols.\u2019 All of this points to what he calls \u2018the next form of religion.\u2019\u201d) As for sightings of what appear to be alien craft that can move in ways contrary to physical laws, that too, says Ripperger, is likely a \u201cdiabolic mirage,\u201d which he says is something demons are able do, albeit rarely.<\/p>\n<p>Ripperger is not alone in making these claims. In late May, Monsignor Stephen Rossetti, also a prominent Catholic exorcist, posted a video on YouTube expressing his personal belief that, \u201cmany, if not most, [UFO] sightings are, in fact, demons.\u201d In the video, which has since been taken down, Rosetti took care to note that this is his own opinion, not official Catholic doctrine.<\/p>\n<p>Like Ripperger, Rosetti thinks UAP sightings and \u201calien\u201d encounters are a diabolic deception. \u201cThere\u2019s a danger here,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/catholic-church-washington-archdiocese-ufos-demons-exorcism-6cb3c6d10fdfc1b6263b05f9bfabd85c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">he said<\/a>. \u201cAs an exorcist I wanted to raise that danger. And that is that demons like to hide \u2026 They don\u2019t want us to know what they\u2019re doing because they\u2019re more effective when we don\u2019t realize it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What made news, however, wasn\u2019t Rosetti\u2019s comments on UAPs but what Washington Archbishop Cardinal Robert McElroy did in response to them. McElroy, one of the most powerful (and liberal) Catholic prelates in America, on June 3 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/cna\/archdiocese-of-washington-removes-prominent-exorcist-over-remarks-linking-ufos-to-demonic-activity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">abruptly removed Rossetti<\/a> from his role as an archdiocesan exorcist and severed the archdiocese\u2019s relationship with the Saint Michael Center for Spiritual Renewal in Washington, D.C., which Rosetti runs.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/adw.org\/news\/statement-cardinal-mcelroy-on-monsignor-stephen-rossetti\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement<\/a>, McElroy said that Rosetti\u2019s comments \u201cgravely undermine the Church\u2019s very precise teaching on the devil, demons and exorcism.\u201d He didn\u2019t explain how the belief that UAPs are demons contradicts Catholic teaching, but merely asserted it.<\/p>\n<p>This is strange. Rosetti, 74, is not some crank but a well-respected priest who has served in the archdiocese of Washington, D.C., since 1993. Before his removal by McElroy, he had been the archdiocesan exorcist in Washington for nearly two decades. He teaches at the Catholic University of America and has served as chaplain to the Washington Nationals baseball team. He\u2019s also a licensed psychologist and an author with a large social media following.<\/p>\n<p>Why did his comments about UAPs and demons provoke such a harsh reaction \u2014 and what appears to be a false statement about Catholic teaching \u2014 from McElroy? We cannot know for sure, but McElroy is precisely the kind of liberal, modern archbishop who would rather not associate the Catholic Church with cosmic supernatural phenomena \u2014 certainly not in the context of the UAP discourse.<\/p>\n<p>Yet in a West that increasingly rejects the cold materialism of the last century and is now entering an era of re-enchantment, it is becoming difficult to posit purely rational, physical explanations for UAPs. Whatever one thinks of the possibility of sentient life on other planets, what we have been told for the past 80 years about aliens and UFOs makes less and less sense as time goes by. The most cutting-edge quantum physics now suggest that not everything that is real can be seen or measured or explained in purely materialistic terms. It is therefore not much of a stretch to think that the things our most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/suicide-drones-attack-highly-sensitive-military-site-deep-inside-iran-report\/\" title=\"Suicide Drones Attack \u2018Highly Sensitive Military Site\u2019 Deep Inside Iran: Report\">advanced military technology<\/a> can detect in the sky or under the sea, like UAPs defying the laws of physics, might not be what we have been conditioned to believe they are.<\/p>\n<p>After all, if Christianity is true, in all its awesomeness and wonder, then what is the more likely explanation for UAPs? That they are the alien spacecraft of Spielberg\u2019s science fiction, or that they are manifestations of spiritual beings created by God, who have rebelled against heaven? If the latter, then any such beings who come promising salvation, or a new era for humanity, or anything at all, should be understood for what they are: not benign creatures from an enlightened star, but the ancient enemies of mankind, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      John Daniel Davidson is a senior editor at The Federalist. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Claremont Review of Books, The New York Post, and elsewhere. He is the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Pagan-America-Decline-Christianity-Dark\/dp\/1684514444\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Pagan+America&#038;qid=1695306441&#038;sr=8-1\"><i>Pagan America: the Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come<\/i><\/a>. Follow him on Twitter, @johnddavidson.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do aliens walk among us? 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