{"id":54191,"date":"2026-05-08T16:30:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T22:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/?p=54191"},"modified":"2026-05-08T17:21:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T23:21:30","slug":"the-ufo-delusion-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-ufo-delusion-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"The UFO Delusion &#8211; Part I","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-54193\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/UFO-Delusion.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"589\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/UFO-Delusion.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/UFO-Delusion-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/UFO-Delusion-1024x658.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/UFO-Delusion-768x494.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"buzzsprout-player-19148132\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><div id=\"buzzsprout-player-19148132\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <script src=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/1172402\/19148132.js?container_id=buzzsprout-player-19148132&amp;player=small\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">or on <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7K-7tW60INk\">YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<span class=\"mks_dropcap_letter\" style=\"font-size: 60px; color: #494949; \">S<\/span>everal years ago, my family was passing through Saskatchewan, Canada. The area we were traveling that night was renowned for &#8220;UFO sightings.&#8221; We discussed it in the car with a certain intrigue. Admittedly, I was hoping we might catch a glimpse of a spacecraft as my eyes squinted into the black sky.<\/p>\n<p>Back then, my dad drove a big Dodge car where you could stretch out on the back window sill and watch the clouds or stars pass by. I crawled over the back seat onto the ledge and looked up. Suddenly, there were 6 bright lights in a row, seemingly hovering there. No lamposts, nothing but the lights. And then suddenly, they were gone. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5>A Prophetic Warning?<\/h5>\n<p>Fast forward about 20 years ago or so. I was taking a prayer walk down our country road when&#8230; I don&#8217;t know how else to explain this&#8230; but a &#8220;now word&#8221; was infused in my soul that there was coming a\u00a0<em>UFO deception.\u00a0<\/em>I stood there, stunned. Not something I felt I needed to talk about right away. But I eventually did in a writing called\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-coming-counterfeit\/\">The Coming Counterfeit<\/a>. <\/em>I read it just now, and feel what I wrote in 2010 is now unfolding before us as the American <a href=\"https:\/\/www.war.gov\/UFO\/\">Department of War<\/a> begins its &#8220;disclosure&#8221; of alleged evidence of UFOs.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_54191_1('footnote_plugin_reference_54191_1_1');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_54191_1('footnote_plugin_reference_54191_1_1');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_54191_1_1\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[1]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_54191_1_1\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">cf. <span class=\"footnote_url_wrap\">https:\/\/www.war.gov\/UFO\/<\/span><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_54191_1_1').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_54191_1_1', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> In this webcast, I want to share with you part of what I wrote 16 years ago as it feels prophetic to me today:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">I am not certain that we can ignore the increasing manifestation of \u201cUFO\u2019s\u201d and the deception that may accompany this. There is a belief within the New Age that the mythology of the gods and the human race was \u201cbirthed\u201d from aliens\u2026. aliens who will return at some point to bring us into an age of peace and harmony.<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"> [Note how this is essentially a mockery and counterfeit of the coming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-popes-and-a-dawning-new-age\/\">Era of Peace<\/a> expected in Christianity.]<\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">\u00a0One researcher estimates that there are six \u201csightings\u201d somewhere in the world\u00a0<em>every hour<\/em>. I agree with many other Christians that these are<em>\u00a0deceptions,\u00a0<\/em>but on a couple of different levels. For one thing, in those who have been \u201cabducted,\u201d there is often left behind a \u201cresidue\u201d of after-effects which are very similar to demonic possession, including at times <em>the smell of sulfur<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Let me pause there. I recently heard two testimonies, one at the Winnipeg Men&#8217;s Conference I spoke at recently. A young man came up to me and asked if I could put him in touch with my colleague, Prof. Daniel O&#8217;Connor, who has written and spoken exhaustively on this subject. &#8220;I was abducted,&#8221; he told me, giving a few more details of his disturbing encounters. I looked at him intently and said, &#8220;So, in your opinion, were these aliens or demons?&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&#8220;Oh, demons,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">An evangelical pastor recently recounted how his wife was woken up at 3:00 am in the morning and telepathically heard a voice in her head telling her to come outside. She went to the patio door, and there was a &#8220;grey&#8221; standing there \u2014 your classic-looking &#8220;alien.&#8221; She felt a paralyzing oppression, but when she invoked the name of Jesus, it disappeared.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_54191_1('footnote_plugin_reference_54191_1_2');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_54191_1('footnote_plugin_reference_54191_1_2');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_54191_1_2\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[2]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_54191_1_2\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TTF8ts6pOgE\">youtube.com<\/a>; This is a decent webcast. However, they unfortunately conflate Marian apparitions with UFO encounters saying, this too, is part of the deception. I will address this in the future.<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_54191_1_2').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_54191_1_2', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">These are but two of <em>countless<\/em> similar testimonies since 1947 when UFO &#8220;encounters&#8221; suddenly proliferated. Most unexpectedly was the recent warning from UFO investigators <em>in the Pentagon.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u201cIt\u2019s demonic,\u201d said Devon Woods of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to Luis Elizondo.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>There is no reason we should be looking into this. We already know what they are and where they come from. They are deceivers. Demons.<\/strong> \u2014Elizondo 2024, 85; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publictheology\/2025\/01\/demons-and-uap-in-the-pentagon\/\">patheos.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">The group of researchers has been dismissed as being &#8220;regressive&#8221; in thinking, with even Christian writers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publictheology\/2025\/01\/demons-and-uap-in-the-pentagon\/\">mocking<\/a> their concerns as mere &#8220;evangelical fundamentalism.&#8221; That said, I have never felt that all UFO encounters are <em>de facto<\/em> demonic&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<h5 align=\"left\">Advanced Science<\/h5>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">While there appears to be a demonic element to UFO abductions, there is also evidence that\u00a0<em>governments<\/em>\u00a0possess far more advanced technology than many realize. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">It has long been said by insiders and whistleblowers within the military complex that they are decades ahead of what is rolled out to the public. Of course, these courageous people are dismissed as spreading &#8220;misinformation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Several years ago, I spoke at a conference with a woman who was deep into the New Age, but converted to Catholicism. She said that, before her conversion about four decades ago, her and a friend sat in the Nevada desert outside Area 51. &#8220;For an hour,&#8221; she said, &#8220;we watched this large craft about a mile wide hovering over the desert floor. Smaller craft were flying in and out of the main craft.&#8221; I asked her a question I thought was rhetorical: &#8220;Do you think this was demonic?&#8221; Without missing a beat, she laughed and said, &#8220;Oh, heaven&#8217;s no. <em>It was government.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">The ability to produce \u201canti-gravity\u201d effects has been proven, but never allowed to proliferate in the private sector: it could very well be that UFO\u2019s are, in fact, not driven by little green men from Mars, but the product of highly advanced earth technology. This is precisely the conclusion of some who have been involved in high levels of the New Age, but have converted to Christianity. It is also the conclusion of some brilliant scientists and inventors in our time who have been silenced or eliminated when their discoveries and inventions have \u201cgone too far.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">It&#8217;s noteworthy what I wrote in 2010, since there has been a recent string of mysterious deaths involving UFO researchers whose work was also on the fringes of anti-gravity and exotic propulsion.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_54191_1('footnote_plugin_reference_54191_1_3');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_54191_1('footnote_plugin_reference_54191_1_3');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_54191_1_3\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[3]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_54191_1_3\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">cf. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/sciencetech\/article-15738699\/ufo-scientist-amy-eskridge-death-huntsville.html\">dailymail.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_54191_1_3').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_54191_1_3', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> Were they too close to exposing advanced human technology? It&#8217;s pretty chilling if not telling that their deaths have come right before the U.S. Government&#8217;s further disclosure today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">Is a coordinated \u201cUFO invasion\u201d possible? Yes, it\u2019s possible\u2026 but not from aliens, rather, powerful people wielding powerful tools of manipulation. For those involved in satanism and black magic, it is an occult rite to inform their victims, usually in veiled messages, of what they will be doing to them <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">[we say &#8220;hidden in plain sight&#8221;]<\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">. <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">For those with power and money, it may often be done through the media in very non-implicating ways. Has the proliferation of Hollywood UFO movies, where \u201caliens\u201d invade, or attack, or save the earth, been a subtle way of projecting a message to the public under the guise of entertainment <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">[what is called predictive programming]<\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">&#8230;Considering how widespread the world\u2019s fascination with UFOs is (and how they are now mentioned almost weekly in the mainstream media), this is a deception we should keep in mind, for it may play a significant role in the larger deception that will seduce mankind. If you see UFO\u2019s appear over your cities someday, remember what was written here\u2026<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Okay, that&#8217;s my preamble. But now it&#8217;s time to get serious. In Part II, I am going to summarize the best arguments in Catholic Tradition against the belief that rational aliens exist out there, somewhere in the universe&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5>Related<\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">Our one-hour webcast on this subject: <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/ufos-drones-aliens-oh-my\/\">UFO, Drones and Aliens &#8211; Oh My!<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">Daniel O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s latest video: cf.\u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.countdowntothekingdom.com\/day-of-disclosure-or-deception\/\">Day of Disclosure&#8230; or Deception?<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">So grateful for your prayers and support.<br \/>\nThank you!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/donations\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Donateovalbtnonbeige.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"112\" height=\"48\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">To journey with Mark in\u00a0<strong><em>The <\/em><\/strong><em><strong>Now Word<\/strong><\/em>,<em><br \/>\n<\/em>click on the banner below to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/subscribe\/\">subscribe<\/a>. <br \/>\nYour email will not be shared with anyone.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/subscribe\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-25916\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/now-word-banner.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"469\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/now-word-banner.jpeg 850w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/now-word-banner-300x98.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/now-word-banner-768x250.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Now on Telegram. 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However, they unfortunately conflate Marian apparitions with UFO encounters saying, this too, is part of the deception. 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