Nobody Knows What’s Real

American Thinker ^ | 17 Aug, 2025 | J.B. Shurk

[MtnClimber]

There’s no better example of how little faith Americans have that government officials will tell the truth than the public’s blasé reaction to UFO announcements. In the last ten years, The New York Times has run stories about secret Pentagon programs tasked with retrieving alien craft. Members of Congress have held hearings on “mysterious orbs” and invited government witnesses to testify about black budget projects supposedly reverse-engineering alien technology. Secretary of State Rubio and director of National Intelligence Gabbard have both suggested that the UFO issue is serious. Yet eight billion people around the world collectively shrug.

Can you imagine what the public reaction would have been like had national newspapers and prominent officials released similar details in the 1950s? With the 1947 Roswell Incident still fresh in Americans’ minds, government confirmation of UFOs would have been the most important story in the world. Every article written and television report broadcast would have been framed around the alien/UFO phenomenon.

For eighty years, UFO-hunters have been fighting for government declassifications and official disclosure of alien contact. Now that videos of strange sightings have been released and congressional hearings have been convened to investigate the matter, Americans don’t seem to care. Representatives Tim Burchett and Anna Paulina Luna have said explicitly that extraterrestrial visitors are real, and their statements disappear in a blizzard of news stories discussing the “Aryan micro-aggressions” of Sydney Sweeney’s jeans.

Nobody believes what government officials say. Nobody believes what journalists say. In our world today, fantastic stories come and go, and nobody knows if they’re real.

CIA director William Casey reportedly told other principals gathered in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in early 1981, “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”

[RoosterRedux]

I don’t disagree that the Bible tells us the truth. But the Bible doesn’t give us a detailed description of demons, fallen angels, or Nephilim. We know they exist, we know they deceive, but beyond that, the details are sparse.

The danger is in assuming the Bible fully explains UFOs or any modern phenomenon when in reality it gives us only glimpses. Even the word “demon” in the Gospels might refer to just one type of unclean spirit—there may be many others we know nothing about.

Yes, the Bible is truth, but it also uses metaphor, symbol, and vision. Revelation, Daniel, Ezekiel—all are filled with imagery that’s true but not meant as a “technical manual.” That means we need humility.

So while it’s possible UFO encounters are linked to deception by fallen powers, we should also admit: we don’t know exactly what kind of beings are involved, how they operate, or what category Scripture would put them in. The worst mistake would be to claim certainty where God has left mystery.

[cuz1961]

No, I never saw the movie.

/

I stand corrected.

I remembered last night who I mistook you for last night.

My arguments against evo are still valid though.

I hope those arguments made sense to you though.

[Hot Tabasco]

I hope those arguments made sense to you though.

Those are your arguments, and they are what they are.

Am I a Christian? It all depends on your opinion of me. I believe in a God but I don't believe in any religions. It's estimated that there are over 10,000 religions world wide, and each believes that their interpretation of God is sacrosanct.

So who am I to believe?

With that being said, there is nothing in your bible that says that God didn't also create life elsewhere in the universe.

That's why I have an open mind on the origins of these unknown UAP's...

[darth]

All of the old pilots I new were not loony.

Perhaps UFOs have curiosity about aircraft.

Or, perhaps those flying a lot simply see more sky than the average person.

As for evidence, there are videos, radar reflections, IR images, etc now.

Looks to me like there is something out there of great interest.

[mdmathis6]

I figured that you did an oopsie typo but it was pretty funny. LOL!