'Aliens' and 'Demons' — In Comparison: A 2024 News Article and a Recent Daily Mail Exclusive Report

 

Featured Article #1 from GB News:

"GB News: Nasa ‘quietly funding’ theological conferences amid ‘demonic’ UFO fears"  

By Gabrielle Wilde (January 25, 2024)

  
UFO expert Nick Pope has revealed that Nasa is funding theological conferences because 'they want to get ahead of the game'

UFO expert Nick Pope believes Nasa is "quietly funding" theological conferences due to suggestions that the presence of UFOs could have something to do with demons or negative spirits.

Speaking to Patrick Christys on GB News he said that Nasa wants "to get ahead of the game".

Pope said: "I don't believe in demons myself but a lot of people do and certainly the Bible talks about these things in terms of unclean spirits.

"There is probably a faction still in both the US and the UK that thinks that some aspects of the UFO phenomenon are demonic.  One of their reasons for believing that is a passage in the book of Ephesians in the Bible that talks about Satan as being the Prince of the Power of the Air.
 

  
"I think that it is undeniable that many of the world's great religions have in recent years started to think seriously and do some theological debate about what the consequences would be of discovering extraterrestrial life.

"We know that the Catholic Church, for example, has issued several statements on this. One of them said that there's no doctrinal objection to the existence of aliens because as they put it, man may place no creative limits upon God. 

"Nasa has quietly put in a bit of funding to theological conferences that have talked about this.

"I think it's more a case that they're hedging their bets and they're thinking if it's true, they want to get ahead of the game this time and not get caught up in the sort of science versus religion dogfight that we saw in the Middle Ages, for example, with Copernicus and Galileo."
  

 
The former Ministry of Defence worker also explained that "we can't rule out" any possibility of extraterrestrial life.

Christys said: "There appears to be some division online, as there always is when you're dealing with topics like this as to whether or not we are dealing with extraterrestrials, whether we are dealing with technology that is either friendly in terms of US or Western, or whether it's China or Russia or whether or not there is some presence of life that predates human existence here in this world.

"I mean, there's a lot of talk about whether or not Antarctica is some kind of base for a civilization that has been here a lot longer than we have.  What do you make of that?" 

The UFO expert responded: "One point there is that none of these theories are mutually exclusive.  It's possible to envisage a scenario where all of those things are true, that we have an extraterrestrial presence, and that some UAPs are attributable to secret prototype aircraft, missiles and drones, sometimes ours, sometimes from an adversary.
   

  
"And yes, even the idea, I think I've heard it called the The Crypto Terrestrial hypothesis, the idea that there's another intelligence that we share this planet with and that they're down there somewhere under the oceans, under the ice.

"I think I'm a little bit sceptical about that because I think we'd have picked up more signs of them and if they were that advanced they'd have done things like launch satellites that which we could then detect.

"So I'm less sure about that.  But having said that when you listen to some of the US intelligence community whistleblowers, people like David Crush, they are very careful in their terminology and they use the phrase non-human intelligence.

"The reason they use that phrase is that they don't limit this to just the idea of extraterrestrials.  But they even consider things like what if they're there are other hidden dimensions and something is intruding from one of those.

"Now that sounds like science fiction but you know the Large Hadron Collider, the big particle accelerator is actively looking for those sorts of things.  So yesterday's science fiction is today's science fact."

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Blogger's Note: Here's a short bio of the late Nick Pope (1965-2026) from the coasttocoastam.com radio program website where there may be found 33 guest appearances encapsulated between 2006 and 2023.
 

Nick Pope worked for the UK Ministry of Defense for 21 years, where his final posting was as an acting deputy director in the Directorate of Defense Security.  For much of the early Nineties, he was posted to a division where his responsibilities included researching and investigating the UFO phenomenon, to assess the defense, national security and safety of flight implications.  This led the media to call him "the real Fox Mulder."  Nick was also involved in a government program to declassify and release most of the MOD's UFO documents - many of which he wrote.

Because of his government work on UFOs, Nick is in constant demand with the media: he's written an op-ed for The New York Times, is one of the leading contributors on Ancient Aliens, and is a regular contributor on various TV news shows.  He also moderates Ancient Aliens Live - a traveling stage show based on the hit TV series.  Nick is regularly called on by Hollywood to act as consultant or spokesperson on UFO and alien-themed video games, movies and TV shows, including War of the Worlds and The X-Files.

  
He is also the author of several books, including three novels.  Also reported:
 

After leaving the MoD in 2006, Pope’s objective, cautious civil service manner opened the door to a career as a television commentator.  In addition to Britain’s Closest Encounters and Danny Dyer: I Believe in UFOs, he relocated to the US and appeared regularly on the History Channel’s Ancient Aliens and The UnXplained with William Shatner.  He moderated 94 editions of a touring production, Ancient Aliens Live, and was a consultant on the 2005 film War of the Worlds and the 2008 X-Files movie. He was a frequent speaker at the Roswell Daily Record’s annual Roswell Incident conference.  (thetimes.com)

 
Featured Article #2 from Daily Mail:
 

EXCLUSIVE "I'm an exorcist... Here's the chilling encounter that made me believe UFOs are the work of Satan"

By ROB WAUGH (May 17, 2026)

A Catholic priest and exorcist who has encountered demons first-hand has revealed a chilling experience that led him to believe UFOs are actually the work of the devil. 

Father Carlos Martins, an Ontario-born priest who has performed exorcisms around the world, believes the UFO phenomenon is part of a larger spiritual deception designed to undermine Christianity and cast doubt on the Bible.

The priest said a longtime friend who later converted to Christianity once witnessed a gigantic spacecraft hovering silently over a suburban park before it shot away 'instantly to the speed of a bullet.'

The object was allegedly so enormous that the two witnesses could see details on its surface and estimated it stretched across 'many football fields in size.'  Yet despite the extraordinary sighting, no one else in the town appeared to notice the object, and there were no local news reports about the alleged encounter.

Years later, after converting to Christianity, Martins' friend came to believe the vision had not been an alien craft at all, but a supernatural illusion sent by the devil.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, Martins said Satan could use belief in extraterrestrial civilizations to create 'a competing account' to Christian scripture and weaken belief in divine revelation.

He also claimed modern UFO encounters, particularly alien abduction stories, often mirror the psychological and physical torment seen during cases of alleged demonic possession.

'If the devil brings it about, he can put it into the human imagination that there is extraterrestrial life, that there are civilizations out there, then he can cause doubt in the Scriptures,' Martins said.

 

Caption: Father Carlos Martins has encountered the Devil and his minions in many forms

 
'What he's done then is set up a competing account to the Christian scriptures, something the Judeo-Christian scriptures cannot account for, and so there's an indirect repudiation of the truth of revelation.  He's accomplished that.'

The idea that UFOs may have demonic origins has gained traction in some conservative religious circles in recent years.

Vice President J D Vance said on a podcast in March: 'I don't think they're aliens, I think they're demons.'

Martins converted from atheism to Christianity while studying as an undergraduate and says one of his closest friends experienced an encounter that radically shaped his understanding of UFOs.

The priest recalled: 'I have a good friend who is a convert. He converted to the Christian faith in his late teens or early 20s. We grew up in the same hometown.

'[My friend] was walking with another friend on a weeknight along a trail in a suburb that ran between two homes and opened into a large park. 

'They looked up into the sky and saw this enormously large spaceship.  It was immensely large, many football fields in size.'

The two men allegedly watched the giant craft hovering silently overhead and were close enough to make out details on its surface.

 

CAPTION: Father Carlos Martins, an Ontario-born priest who has performed exorcisms around the world, believes the UFO phenomenon is part of a larger spiritual deception designed to undermine Christianity and cast doubt on the Bible  (stock)

 
Martins said: 'They look at one another, and then they look back at the ship, and it would have been less than a minute.

'All of a sudden, it takes off with a speed that's just unfathomable, instantly to the speed of a bullet. So it just shot out of the sky.  There wasn't an acceleration, it was just instant darting away.'

According to Martins, the most disturbing aspect of the encounter was that nobody else seemed to have witnessed the gigantic craft.

There were no reports in local newspapers, no emergency calls and no indication anyone else in town had seen the alleged spacecraft.

For years, his friend struggled to understand the experience until later converting to Christianity.

'My friend, when he converted, or after he converted, we talked about this again, Martins said.

'I remember a couple of times, and I said to him, "Look, what do you think that was?"  He said, "No question.  It was the devil."'

'He said, "If I were to buy into this concept, then of their being ET life, then it would cast a doubt on the Christian account of what exists in the universe of God's plan for it."'

He said reports involving UFOs and alien encounters have increasingly appeared alongside exorcism cases during the last decade.

'There's definitely been a rise, I would say, in the last 10 years of integration of UFO and extraterrestrial, alien life stuff and exorcism,' Martins explained.

'I wouldn't say that it's common, but I would say it's definitely on the rise.'
  

CAPTION: Above, a still from a video released in the Trump administration's disclosure appears to show a glowing object resembling an 'eight-pointed star' with uneven arms moving across the sky, which almost seemed to shape-shift in mid-air

 
Martins believes many UFO sightings are elaborate illusions created to deceive human senses.

'The senses can be deceived.  Fake sense experience can be produced.  That's the point,' he said.  'So an illusion, a mirage, which I've seen many times.'

The priest said he witnessed this phenomenon firsthand while performing an exorcism on a firefighter he believed was possessed.

Martins said he secretly flicked a tiny amount of holy water onto the man's clothing while walking behind him.

According to Martins, the man suddenly reacted violently.

'He shot up out of his chair and started hissing, and his teeth seemed to grow some two inches, like there were fangs at that moment,' Martins said.  'For a split second, the fangs were protruding from his mouth.'

Martins believes the apparent transformation was not physically real, but rather a visual illusion generated by demonic forces.
  

  
'The devil is perfectly capable of bending light. He's perfectly capable of causing a mirage and illusion,' the priest said.  'I mean, he is by far the greatest magician, the greatest sleight of hand performer that has ever existed.'

The priest also argued that alleged alien abductions closely resemble accounts of demonic oppression and possession.

'When you read accounts of abductions of people that have been allegedly abducted, very similar to ones that are demonically tortured,' Martins said.  'There are large gaps in memory.'

He added: 'The phenomenon, the experience of the victim, is kind of always the same.  Across the board, there's an abuse of the body, an abuse of the person.'

Martins believes modern fascination with extraterrestrials emerged during the Space Age and gradually replaced older supernatural folklore.

'This is the modern-day folk account of leprechauns, tooth fairies and pixies,' he said.  'It was only when we entered the Space Age. 

'Then the view of man changed, and that became kind of the new realm, the blank slate by which the devil could approve and kind of begin to dictate a new story.' 
 
Blogger's Note: 419 comments to this article include "What a load of cold-pressed horse-dookie!"; "Yet another nut!" and "Everyone is quick to say they're demons, not angels.  Have they actually hurt anyone?  They just float around then zip off away.  Maybe they are angels, why are they demonic?  Too much hollywood?"
  

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The current 'aliens' and 'demons' news media spin blitz is also the subject of two more articles:
 

"The Terms 'Aliens' and 'Demons' Have Distinctly Different Evolutions"


'"The Current Inane 'Aliens Are Demons' News Media Spin Blitz Is Reminiscent of Some Past Ideological News Campaigns". 

      

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