The UFO Delusion – Part II

 

I am afraid that
as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning,
your thoughts will be led astray
from a sincere and pure devotion
to Christ.
(2 Corinthians 11:3)

 

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So, what exactly is being “disclosed” by the U.S. government? Extraterrestrial spacecraft? Advanced government tech? Real aliens? Fallen angels? Human hybrids? The most important question, however, is what is actually possible?

In this second part, I want to highlight the key theological arguments against extraterrrestrial (ET) life. For this, I’m turning to the masterful work of my colleague, Prof. Daniel O’Connor, who has written two exhaustive gems on this subject: The First and Last Deception:Aliens, UFOs, AI, and the Return of Eden’s Demise, and the larger volume, Only Man Bears His Image. So, while I may only put forth key arguments here, I refer you to the mountain of scriptural and doctrinal evidence in both his books and the video at the bottom of this article. In fact, one of the reasons you haven’t seen or heard Daniel and I together a whole lot over the past year has been his tireless work to get this information into the public’s hands in time for the so-called “day of disclosure”…

 

Nothing in the Toolbox

While some Catholic theologians claim that extraterrestrial (ET) life exists, I argue that the Church has been given zero tools to deal with the existence of other planetary civilizations. By this, I mean zero revelation. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church and her perennial teaching, 

The Christian economy, therefore, since it is the new and definitive Covenant, will never pass away; and no new public revelation is to be expected before the glorious manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ. —n. 66

Here, I am not speaking of new scientific discoveries that may change our understanding of how things function — like the earth being round. Rather, I am speaking of an ontological disclosure that would constitute a veritable rewrite of Public Revelation, a complete disruption of the Christian economy and our understanding of man. I don’t believe for a second that God has kept hidden, until now, what would constitute a complete reworking of Divine Revelation that would open wide the doors to the greatest deceptions in human history.

Imagine turning on the news and hearing governments claim that aliens are among us; that they are an intelligent, unfallen race within God’s creation. Suddenly, whatever they “reveal” must be accepted as “truth”, since being unfallen, they would not lie. Whatever they have to “add” to our understanding about man, about the angelic realm, God’s creation, our origin, salvation, the sacraments, the future, about Jesus Christ Himself… would be accepted by many as new doctrine “gifted” to the human race from these rational, advanced beings.

ET promoters know this and are quite clear that this would upend theology as we know it. Catholic seminary professor and alien-life believer, Joel Parkyn, says that contact with aliens would….

“…call into question certain cherished religious doctrines,” since “for two millennia theology has [had] … an anthropocentric myopia.” Discovering aliens, he foretells, “may wholly redefine many of our conceptions of God and creation,” because: “…evidence of a second Genesis could drastically call into question certain Christian foundational theological teachings regarding creation, the Incarnation, and the Redemption. … [this] would inevitably result in a profound reformulation or recontextualizing of theology…” —Exotheology: Theological Explorations of Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life (Pickwick Publications, 2021), Introduction; (cf. O’Connor, Daniel. The First and Last Deception: Aliens, UFOs, AI, and the Return of Eden’s Demise (p. 100), Kindle Edition)

No, it would result in apostasy. It would, says Jesuit, Fr. John Saliba, be a “radical rethinking of the common Christian doctrines of creation and redemption.”^[1]O’Connor, Daniel, The First and Last Deception: Aliens, UFOs, AI, and the Return of Eden’s Demise (p. 101), Kindle Edition Another Jesuit and former director of the Vatican Observatory for almost three decades, Fr. George Coyne, insisted ETs entail a duty to “rethink some fundamental realities” of Christianity such as… “What is the human being? … We cannot rely, even theologically, solely on God’s revelation to us in the Scriptures and in the churches, since that revelation was to us and was received, therefore, in a very anthropocentric sense.”^[2]Ibid.

So he’s basically saying Christian revelation is essentially a bone thrown to humans to chew on for a couple of thousand years – but there’s another meal coming altogether. Well, that’s a breathtaking claim — and here’s why it’s a heresy. 

Christ, the Son of God made man, is the Father’s one, perfect and unsurpassable Word. In Him He has said everything; there will be no other word than this one. —Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 65

The Catechism goes on to quote the wisdom of St. John of the Cross:

In giving us his Son, his only Word (for he possesses no other), he spoke everything to us at once in this sole Word — and he has no more to say… because what he spoke before to the prophets in parts, he has now spoken all at once by giving us the All Who is His Son. Any person questioning God or desiring some vision or revelation would be guilty not only of foolish behavior but also of offending him, by not fixing his eyes entirely upon Christ and by living with the desire for some other novelty. —ibid.; The Ascent of Mount Carmel 2,22,3-5 in The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross

There is no new revelation coming, either from men or aliens. As it says in Jude 1:3: “the faith […] was once for all delivered to the saints.” Thus, St. Paul warned:

…even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to that which we preached to you, let him be accursed. (Galatians 1:8)

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander into myths. (2 Timothy 4:3-4)

 

Not Benevolent Aliens but Malevolent Messiahs

On the other hand, St. Paul was given many explicit “end-time” revelations of a coming great delusion, a great apostasy or falling away from the Faith that would befall mankind. 

The coming of the lawless one by the activity of Satan will be with all power and with pretended signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are to perish, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends upon them a strong delusion, to make them believe what is false, so that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. (2 Thessalonians 2:9-12)

To avoid this deception of the Antichrist and the temptation to grope after a gnosticism that would deify man in the place of God, did St. Paul teach that we should just wait for extraterrestrial revelations, alien disclosures that would save man from himself? On the contrary, he flatly states:

So then, brethren, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by letter. (2 Thessalonians 2:15)

That’s it. Stand on what has been revealed to the Church. It is the rock of our salvation. Don’t look to aliens to redeem the world. Don’t put your trust in messianic princes. Turn to the infallible Word of God preserved in Sacred Tradition. In fact, Jesus says don’t turn to… “false Christs and false prophets [who] will arise and show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.”^[3]Matthew 24:24 By the way, some of these false messiahs could well appear as demonic deceptions. 

And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. (2 Corinthians 11:14)

As I said in Part I, countless are the testimonies, including those who work in the Pentagon in UFO research, who say that encounters with “aliens” bear all the hallmarks of contact with demons. Daniel covers several of these encounters and their diabolical nature in Chapter 13 of The First and Last Deception. 

 

Scientific Implausibility

But since many will make appeals to “science” to bolster their claims for alien life, it’s worth pausing for a moment to consider the scientific plausibility of another habitable planet in the Universe. Daniel quotes two scientists who recently presented an explanation of what is needed for complex life to flourish on a planet, and why ours is absolutely rare.

Our planet coalesced out of the debris from previous cosmic events at a position within a galaxy highly appropriate for [life]… around a star also highly appropriate … We became a planet where global temperatures have allowed liquid water to exist … and for that, our planet had to have a nearly circular orbit at a distance from a star itself emitting a nearly constant energy output for a long period of time. Our planet received a volume of water sufficient to cover most—but not all—of the planetary surface. Asteroids and comets hit us but not excessively so, thanks to the presence of giant gas planets such as Jupiter beyond us… Earth received the right range of building materials—and had the correct amount of internal heat—to allow plate tectonics to work on the planet, shaping the continents required and keeping global temperatures within a narrow range … [The] Earth’s remarkable thermostatic regulating process [always] successfully kept the surface temperature within livable range. Alone among terrestrial planets we have a large moon, and this single fact, which sets us apart from Mercury, Venus, and Mars, may have been crucial to the rise and continued existence of animal life on Earth. —Rare Earth; quoted in The First and Last Deception, (pp. 57-58), Kindle Edition

Astrophysicist Dr. Hugh Ross compiled a more thorough list of 153 prerequisites for any planet to be compatible with life. He concludes:

The probability of a planet anywhere in the universe fitting within all 153 parameters [required for life to even be possible] is approximately 10^-194. The maximum possible number of planets in the universe is estimated to be 10^22. Thus, less than 1 chance in 10^172 (100 thousand trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion) exists that even one such planet would occur anywhere in the universe. — Ibid., p. 59

This “is scientifically equivalent to zero,” says O’Connor. “There is no chance that any planet exists anywhere else in the Universe capable of harboring life.’

As early as the fourth century, the first condemnation of belief in other inhabited worlds appeared.

There is another heresy that says that there are infinite and innumerable worlds, according to the empty opinion of certain philosophers — since Scripture has said that there is one world… —St. Philastrius, Bishop of Brescia (†397 A.D.); Marie George, Christianity and Extraterrestrials?: A Catholic Perspective (iUniverse, 2005), Ch. 4.

As Psalms 115:16 says:

The heavens belong to the LORD, but He has given the earth to the children of Adam. 

 

Only Man Bears God’s Image

And who are these children of Adam? 

Only man and woman, among all creatures, were made by God ‘in his own image’ (Gen 1:27).” —Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, n. 451

Man and woman are as far above the rest of creation as the mountains are from the lowest plains.

Of all visible creatures only man is “able to know and love his creator”… he alone is called to share, by knowledge and love, in God’s own life… “Crowned with glory and honor,” man is, after the angels, capable of acknowledging “how majestic is the name of the Lord in all the earth.” —Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 356, 2566

There are no other categories of creatures capable of knowing and loving the Creator. It’s angels or men. Magisterial teaching clearly excludes the possibility of other rational beings, fallen or unfallen, in declaring man himself as the only being made in His image. What does it mean to be a rational being? It is to possess a will, intelligence, and memory; to be “capable of self-knowledge, of self-possession and of freely giving himself and entering into communion with other persons.”^[4]CCC, n. 357 Thus,

Man occupies a unique place in creation: (I) he is “in the image of God”; (II) in his own nature he unites the spiritual and material worlds…  —CCC, n. 355

 

Christ, the Image of God

This is why it is abhorrent that some theologians and apologists have posited that Jesus is simply the localized savior of humanity — but could be the savior of other civilizations too, even incarnating himself in their flesh through His conception in other “mothers.”^[5]“If the divine Son of God should become incarnate in extraterrestrial races, then His mother on other planets could also be rightly called the “Mother of God.” He would, in fact, have several mothers … [there may be] multiple incarnations with multiple Mothers of God and of the Church, who are also multiple Queens of the Universe through the divine Majesty of their Son…” —Paul Thigpen, Extraterrestrial Intelligence and the Catholic Faith, TAN. 2022. Ch. 14 But that is to reject what Jesus himself has revealed in the “Christian economy,” namely, that:

…the Word became flesh… He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation… those [God] foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He might be the firstborn among many brothers. (John 1:14, Colossians 1:15, Romans 8:29)

The fact that Christ took on human flesh is not a footnote in salvation history; it’s the pinnacle and locus of the cosmos, the point of unity of all creation. So, said Pope St. John Paul II:

To introduce any sort of separation between the Word and Jesus Christ is contrary to the Christian faith… Jesus is the Incarnate Word — a single and indivisible person… —POPE ST. JOHN PAUL II, Encyclical Letter Redemptoris missio, 6

So, there aren’t other iterations of Jesus out there; there aren’t other Queen Mothers in the universe. 

 

The Image is Body

The other question is regarding alien bodies, or rather, the question of the human body. Catholic teaching does not restrict the “image of God” to only the soul of man but includes and even denotes the body as uniquely reflective of this mystery.

Man appears in the visible world as the highest expression of the divine gift… The body, and it alone, is capable of making visible what is invisible: the spiritual and the divine. It was created to transfer into the visible reality of the world the mystery hidden since time immemorial in God, and thus be a sign of it. —ST. JOHN PAUL II, General Audience on Theology of the Body (February 20, 1980)

Thus says renowned Catholic scholar, Fr. Thomas Weinandy:

To be made in the image and likeness of the Son not only means that human beings possess intelligence — the ability to know the truth and to will and love what is good — but also that our bodies must also bear the image of God. For it is the whole of us as human beings that bears God’s image… The beauty of the human body testifies to the truth that it, too, shares in God’s likeness. Again, if alien life does exist, not only would its intelligence bear witness to its divine likeness, but also its material body.  —”Of Jesus and Aliens”, The Catholic Thing, July 16, 2023

That is not the case with aliens, as testimonials of encounters with these entities reveal. They are, rather, bizarre, often monstrous-looking in appearance; they are demonic apparitions at worst; at best, they are genetic aberrations created by unethical governments — unlike man and woman, which Genesis says God created “in his own image.”^[6]Genesis 1:27 “in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” When you see man and woman, you are seeing something of God himself. No wonder human sexuality is under such an attack through gender ideology at the same time that belief in aliens is increasing. They both ultimately blaspheme the image of God in which man is created. 

Church Doctor St. Francis de Sales rightly concludes that “Man is the perfection of the Universe.”^[7]Treatise on the Love of God, Book X, Chapter 1 Conformity to this image of God, revealed and redeemed “in Christ Jesus”, who is both God and man, is the “perfection” of creation. St. Paul says it is the “plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in Him, things in heaven and things on earth.”^[8]Ephesians 1:10 Does that plan include uniting foreign aliens to the Body of Christ?

Quoting St. Philastrius, who confirms that “Scripture has said that there is one world,” O’Connor says:

To claim otherwise is to accuse God — our loving Father — of resembling some deceitful man looking to entrap a young woman in an illicit marriage; having told her of innumerable intimate details regarding all the comparatively minor aspects of his past, while concealing from her that he is a polygamist, and is already “married” to several other women and has many children. For God Himself is both the Bridegroom of the Church and its very soul; the one soul of the one and only Mystical Body of Christ. One bride, one groom. One Church, one soul. One family of children, one Father. “There is one body and one Spirit… one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of us all…” (Ephesians 4:4-6) —The First and Last Deception, pp. 92-93, Kindle Edition

 

The End is the Answer

The entire history of the universe culminates, in fact, not with the revelation or even salvation of other cosmic civilizations that bring humans and aliens together in new utopias, but with the resurrection of the dead at the end of time. “The day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fire,” writes St. Peter.^[9]2 Peter 3:10 Yes, all those other happy civilizations in the cosmos that ET promoters believe in? They’re wiped out in a flash. Apparently, that’s the end of them, because there is no one standing before God in the Final Judgment but humans.^[10]Revelation 20:12 The resurrection and Last Judgment is a human and human reality alone.

At the end of time, we are subsumed into the glorious risen humanity of the Son. Intelligent aliens find no place within God’s eternal scheme — his entire focus is on human beings and the humanity of His divine incarnate Son. —Fr. Thomas Weinandy, “Of Jesus and Aliens”, The Catholic Thing, July 16, 2023

Then St. John reveals the final state of God with His creation:

Behold, the dwelling of God is with men. He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be with them. (Revelation 21:3)

That’s a bummer if you’re a highly intelligent and benevolent alien, left out of the eternal city and God’s dwelling because, well, He dwells with men.

Now, we should note that some argue that aliens are actually just other civilizations of men on other planets. On the contrary, says O’Connor, “Polygenism — the idea that men could exist who are not descendants of Adam and Eve — is condemned as a heresy by infallible Catholic Teaching.”^[11]The First and Last Deception, p. 146, Kindle Edition Starting with Scripture, Tobit affirms:

You made Adam and you gave him his wife Eve to be his help and support; and from these two the human race descended. (Tobit 8:6)

Thus, Pope Pius XII declared:

…the faithful cannot embrace that opinion which maintains that either after Adam there existed on this earth true men who did not take their origin through natural generation from him as from the first parent of all, or that Adam represents a certain number of first parents. —Humani Generis, n.37

In conclusion: there are no other “original” parents in the universe; there are no other offspring, made in God’s image, other than those descended from Adam and Eve. In other words, there are no extraterrestrials. 

 

Of Catholic Mysticism

My colleague Daniel also touches upon views by St. Bridget of Sweden, Blessed Catherine Emmerich, and St. Pio’s apparent endorsement of aliens, which is, and seemingly always will be, an unsubstantiated story from an unknown friar. Even if it were true, St. Pio would simply be mistaken on this matter.

But what is most fascinating is perhaps the timing of both the explosion of UFO sightings, which began after WWII in 1947, and the death of the famed Servant of God Luisca Piccarreta. Says O’Connor:

She was endorsed by multiple canonized saints who knew her—including Padre Pio. Despite the depth of her writings, Jesus told this victim soul that the thousands of pages of private revelations He gave to her are simply a commentary on those greatest of all words, “Thy Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.” (Matthew 6:10) This mystic, who miraculously lived for decades on the Eucharist alone, was also repeatedly told by Jesus that her sufferings on earth were holding something back. Jesus made it clear to her: once those sufferings ceased upon her entry into Heaven (that is, upon her death), this “something” may not be able to be restrained any longer. The UFO era began almost immediately after this victim soul’s death in 1947. Only a few months later, the world was aflame with talk of little green men visiting us from outer space to usher in a new era. —The First and Last Deception: Aliens, UFOs, AI, and the Return of Eden’s Demise, p. 32, Kindle Edition

Just as important are Jesus’ words to Luisa that confirm the Church’s teaching on the centrality of man in all of creation. Scripture itself attests that creation is merely a reflection of the divine attributes in order to speak to man something of God. 

Ever since the creation of the world, His invisible nature, namely, His eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made. (Romans 1:20)

So, Jesus tells Luisa…

…each created thing holds out My love to man; and if it were not so, Creation would have no purpose; and I do nothing without purpose. Everything has been made for man… —January 9, 1920

In other words, there aren’t other worlds in the universe teeming with life as part of God’s plan. Man, himself, is the plan.

Heavens studded with stars, sun radiant with light, refreshing winds, seas … After having prepared everything, We created man, that he might celebrate, and We together with him. (July 23, 1931) 

My daughter, I created the heavens and I centralized My love for man in the heavens; and in order to give him greater delight, I studded them with stars. I did not love the heavens, but man in the heavens, and for him I created them… [the heavens] were to serve him as pure delight… —October 29, 1926

Can you hear the love story? But it’s also a tragedy. St. Paul writes that, since the fall of man, “the whole creation has been groaning in travail together until now.” ^[12]Romans 8:22 Thus, “All visible creation, all the universe, bears the effects of man’s sin,” said Pope St. John Paul II.^[13]Theology of the Body, July 21, 1982

…Since aliens [would be] members of the cosmos, they too would have to be affected by humankind’s sin. The very absurdity of such a conclusion argues against the existence of alien intelligent life. —Fr. Thomas Weinandy, “Of Jesus and Aliens”, The Catholic Thing, July 16, 2023

Most notable is Christ’s request for Luisa to do “rounds” of praise throughout all creation to the ends of the Universe.

Yet, despite the many descriptions of the Rounds in Luisa’s revelations, not one of them contains the slightest implication that there may be aliens. Rather, each time the Rounds are implored, undertaken, or described, their scope is identical: They include all that God has made or accomplished, namely, yet they never include any indication of, implication of, or even space for, extraterrestrials. —Daniel O’Connor, Only Man Bears His Image: The Biblical, Catholic, & Scientific Case Against Aliens, UFO Deceptions, Sentient AI, and Other Sci-Fi Disguised Demons & Psyops Heralding the Antichrist, p. 733, Kindle Edition

 

Voices Throughout the Centuries

While private revelation can be helpful in understanding more deeply God’s Public Revelation, it is to the Magisterium itself that we look for definitive teaching on the possibility of other inhabited worlds.  

• St. Basil the Great recounted how “They say there are infinite heavens and worlds,” but he proceeded to call these the “vain imagining of minds that have not submitted to divine revelation.” ^[14]Homily I, paraphrase of the Greek; theeasternchurch.com

• In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII issued a Corpus of Canon Law that was expanded in 1591, and includes in its list of heresies “having the opinion of innumerable worlds…”^[15]Alberto Martinez, Burned Alive: Bruno, Galileo and the Inquisition (Reaktion Books, 2018), Ch. 1.

• 16th-century Dominican priest Giordano Bruno was brought before the Inquisition and “was admonished to thus abandon his delusions of diverse worlds.” Scientific American reported that, “Many authorities denounced [his belief], including theologians, jurists, bishops, one emperor, three popes, five Church Fathers and nine saints. In 384 A.D. the belief in many worlds was categorized as heretical by Philaster, Bishop of Brescia, in his Book on Heresies. This condemnation was echoed by subsequent authorities, including Saints Jerome, Augustine and Isidore.”^[16]Alberto Martinez, “Was Giordano Bruno Burned at the Stake for Believing in Exoplanets?” March 2018, Scientific American

• In a letter to St. Boniface, Pope St. Zachary wrote the following about a certain cleric named Virgil: “As for his perverse and abominable teaching, which he has proclaimed in opposition to God, and to his own soul’s detriment — if the report of his having spoken thus be true — that is, that there are another world and other men beneath the earth, or even [on?] the sun and moon … take counsel and then expel him from the church, stripped of his priestly dignity.”^[17]Quoted from John Carey, PhD., ‘Ireland and the Antipodes: The Heterodoxy of Virgil of Salzburg,” Speculum, Vol. 64, No. 1 (January, 1989), pp. 1-10; The First and Last Deception, p. 149, Kindle

• Pope Pius II promulgated a decree Cum sicut accepimus published on November 14, 1459. It condemned what the Pope described as “most pernicious errors … a sacrilegious attempt against the dogmas of the holy Fathers” that “God created another world than this one, and in its time many other men and women existed, and consequently Adam was not the first man.”^[18]Heinrich Denzinger, Enchiridion Symbolorum: A Compendium of Creeds, Definitions, and Declarations of the Catholic Church, “Cum sicut accepimus.” (Edited by Peter Hunermann, Robert Fastiggi, Anne Englund Nash. 43’d Edition, Ignatius Press, 2012;). Paragraphs 1361-1369. 1460/1375, page 351; The First and Last Deception, p. 151-152, Kindle 

• St. Thomas Aquinas taught in the Summa that, “The very order of things created by God shows the unity of the world… [and that] those only can assert that many worlds exist who do not acknowledge any ordaining wisdom, but rather believe in chance, as Democritus … [It] is not possible for there to be another earth than this one…” ^[19]Summa Theologica. I, Q47, A3

• St. Augustine in his famous work City of God rejected “Epicurus’ dream of innumerable worlds,” (Book XI, Ch. 5) and he contradicted those who, “though they do not suppose that this world is eternal, are of [the] opinion… that this is not the only world…” (Book XII, Ch. 11)^[20]The First and Last Deception, p. 167, Kindle

• 14th-century Bishop Oresme of Lisieux, described by the old Catholic Encyclopedia as “one of the principal founders of modern science,” stated:

God can and could in His omnipotence make another world besides this one or several like or unlike it. Nor will Aristotle or anyone else be able to prove completely the contrary. But, of course, there has never been nor will there be more than one [inhabited] corporeal world… —Bishop Nicole Oresme, Le Livre du ciel et du monde, Book I, Chapter 24, 36b-39c; The First and Last Deception, p. 169, Kindle

• A notable mention is St. Paisios of Mount Athos, an Orthodox saint canonized in 2015 and one of the most beloved and widely read Orthodox spiritual fathers of the 20th century. He was unequivocal:

There is no life on other planets. All these phenomena are demonic manifestations — an attempt to mislead people and draw them away from Christ and His Church. —as recorded by disciples; paraphrase of teaching; exact wording varies by source; cf. theeasternchurch.com

 

Sons of God?

I should briefly address the sixth chapter of Genesis, one of the most frequently used to suggest a biblical proof of aliens because of its reference to certain “sons of God”:

When men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took to wife such of them as they chose. (Genesis 6:1-2)

Some have wrongly attributed the title “sons of God” to fallen angels who bred these women, thereby incurring God’s wrath. So others suggest these “sons of God” are extraterrestrials, which still incurred God’s wrath. However, Scripture scholar Dr. Scott Hahn affirms that “…angels cannot reproduce like humans, as Augustine and Aquinas pointed out long ago.” Rather, he says, the “sons of God” are the line of divine sonship stemming from Adam’s other son, Seth. And…

…when people began to multiply on the face of the earth, ‘the sons of God,’ that is, the Sethite men, were seduced by the beauty of “the daughters of men,” that is, the Cainite women. The beauty of the wicked proved stronger than the resolve of the righteous.” —Dr. Scott Hahn from A Father who Keeps His Promises, Chapter Four; cf. Daniel O’Connor, Only Man Bears His Image: The Biblical, Catholic, & Scientific Case Against Aliens, UFO Deceptions, Sentient AI, and Other Sci-Fi Disguised Demons & Psyops Heralding the Antichrist (pp. 681-682), Kindle Edition

The sons of God are a righteous line from Adam, not extraterrestrials. Nor are the ancient Nephilim of that passage, or other giant races mentioned throughout the Old Testament, as some apocryphal (ie. non-canonical) texts assert. Says O’Connor:

They may have been amazingly large, or lived to be amazingly old, or even had extra fingers and toes, but they were all offspring of Adam and Eve. They were all 100% human. The mere fact that men once displayed traits we might no longer see does not cast doubt upon the fact they were men. —Only Man Bears His Image: The Biblical, Catholic, & Scientific Case Against Aliens, UFO Deceptions, Sentient AI, and Other Sci-Fi Disguised Demons & Psyops Heralding the Antichrist (p. 680), Kindle Edition

In God’s plan this process of becoming involves the appearance of certain beings and the disappearance of others, the existence of the more perfect alongside the less perfect… Angels and men, as intelligent and free creatures, have to journey toward their ultimate destinies by their free choice and preferential love. —CCC nos. 310-311

 

Final Discernment

Some years ago, I did a five-part series called The New Paganism on the disturbing emergence of ancient pagan practices. The explosion of interest in witchcraft and the occult,^[21]cf. A Catholic Guide to the Occult the bizarre Pachamama scandal in the Vatican Gardens,^[22]The New Paganism – Part III and the steady prepping of the world for a “disclosure” of aliens are all but “signs of the times.”^[23]cf. The Coming Counterfeit

The Vatican’s excellent document on the dangers of the New Age quotes an exponent of that movement, David Spangler, if only to underscore the spiritual narcissism of this generation. 

He wrote that, in the more popular forms of New Age, “individuals and groups are living out their own fantasies of adventure and power, usually of an occult or millenarian form…. The principal characteristic of this level is attachment to a private world of ego-fulfilment and a consequent (though not always apparent) withdrawal from the world. On this level, the New Age has become populated with strange and exotic beings, masters, adepts, extraterrestrials; it is a place of psychic powers and occult mysteries, of conspiracies and hidden teachings.” —from David Spangler, The Rebirth of the Sacred, London (Gateway Books) 1984, p. 78; cf. Jesus Christ the Water Bearer of Life, 3.2, vatican.va

Thus, it is no surprise that a U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research Report concluded decades ago:

Many of the UFO reports now being published in the popular press recount alleged Incidents that are strikingly similar to demoniac possession and psychic phenomena which have long been known to theologians… —cf. apps.dtic.mil

Here, one cannot say enough about discernment. Suffice it for now to quote Our Lord, who said:

Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad; for the tree is known by its fruit. (Matthew 12:33)

In his video summary, O’Connor makes a rather revealing point — and so I’ll give him the last word:

Every pagan religion believes in aliens. Hinduism believes in aliens, Buddhism believes in aliens, Mormonism believes in aliens, Sikhism believes in aliens, even Islam believes in aliens… It’s only ancient Judaism and Christianity that reject belief in aliens, in other words, only authentic Divine Revelation. That’s pretty telling in and of itself, isn’t it? In fact, that itself should settle it for any clear-thinking person. —”Disclosure Now: What Catholics MUST Know Before Trump Announces UFOs, Aliens, & ETs”, YouTube

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Related Reading

The UFO Delusion – Part I

The Coming Counterfeit

 

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