From an official Mormon church publication (New Era, April 1971), "People on Other Worlds":
All of us in the Church are expending our energies in the gospel partly because of the assignment from the Lord to inform the world of this coming visitation by him and other people from outer space, or from the heavens. It is obvious, therefore, that if we are to help prepare the world to receive these visitors we must know something ourselves about other worlds, the people on them, why we are here, and what is yet going to happen to this world. No one on earth should know more about outer space—and talk more about it—than Latter-day Saints.
People on Other Worlds
Ah, so they’re pushing that, too.
No surprise, I guess.