Christian Nationalist pastor Doug Wilson, whom Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has invited to repeatedly pray at the Pentagon, offered a bizarre explanation on Thursday for UFO sightings — namely, they’re caused by the devil to trick and deceive people.
“These UFO manifestations are too well-attested for all of them to be dismissed as hoaxes,” he said in his broadcast Blog & Mablog. “Large numbers of people have seen things that cannot be accounted for. They’ve genuinely appeared to many, and they remain legit unidentified. So what are we to make of them?”
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“I believe that we are dealing with, for the most part, with spiritual apparitions designed to mislead and deceive. These UFOs are creatures of the atmosphere, correct. Well, the Scripture teaches that the devil is the prince of the power of the air,” he continued. “In addition to that, he is the spirit that works in the children of disobedience… If we are looking at tricks in the sky, then one of our first reflexes should be to think of the trickster.”
He claimed that these “creatures” are shapeshifters and denied the possibility that the UFOs are aliens from another far-off world, because there’s no indication (to him) that they have any relation to Biblical cosmology.
Wilson believes women shouldn’t be allowed to vote, that consensual gay adult encounters should be illegal, that the world should be a Christian world that forbids public displays of other non-evangelical Christrian religions aren’t allowed, and that “decent human beings” owned slaves.
Former President Barack Obama sparked widespread interest in extra-terrestrials last February when he told journalist Brian Tyler Cohen, “[Aliens] are real but I haven’t seen them,” adding, “They’re not being kept in Area 51.” Obama later clarified that his comments were made in a “lighthearted spirit” during a fast-paced interview and that his “they’re real” comment referred to the statistical likelihood of life existing on other planets, not that he himself had seen evidence of alien life on Earth.
In March, the White House registered two new government domains — alien.gov and aliens.gov — one month after President Trump announced his plans to release long-anticipated U.S. government records about unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) and extraterrestrial beings, Defense Scoop reported.
In previous congressional hearings between 2023 and 2025, former intelligence officer David Grusch alleged that the U.S. government had recovered non-human “biologics” and operated a secret, decades-long reverse-engineering program. Other witnesses testified that UAPs in the air and ocean are capable of flying in formation, performing evasive maneuvers, and outperforming known aircraft.
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