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Posted on 05/13/2026 10:21:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The U.S. government “disclosure” of files related to UFOs commenced on Friday. I had predicted the day before that the results would be a letdown, and so far, that has proven to be the case. If you’re impressed by more of the familiar grainy, black-and-white images of dancing specks in the sky, then you will be impressed by what we saw Friday.
Adding to my own feeling of being underwhelmed is the fact that little that’s “known” about UFOs has changed much in 70+ years. A 1958 work by psychologist Carl Jung, Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky, describes behavior by the apparent crafts that echoes exactly what we hear in 2026.
A theme in social media chatter has been that the disclosure will challenge traditional religious beliefs, and that it may even be a “psyop” directed against Christian faith. It’s hard to imagine anyone’s faith being rocked by what seems to be a blurry closeup of a kidney bean.
Nevertheless, the idea is out there, and who knows? We haven’t seen the end of the disclosure yet. The Steven Spielberg UFO blockbuster Disclosure Day, due in theaters next month, promises to address religious questions — “an important part” of the film, as the self-described agnostic screenwriter said last week. If anything really interesting does come out from the government, no doubt some will seek to turn it into a narrative corrosive of religious tradition.
So it’s good that our colleague Casey Luskin addresses the subject head-on in an article today at Townhall. He allows that the new images and information could turn out to be a “highly redacted nothingburger.” (Does it come with fries?) Dr. Luskin asks,
But let’s try a thought experiment: If the government were to disclose information showing the existence of alien life, what would that change for us?
Overnight, on the subject of UFOs, cynical smirks on countless faces would be wiped clean. Many would look to spiritual and scientific authorities for answers.
People would indeed look to pastors and other clergy. Yet consider that if aliens have been visiting our planet, they would need to have been intelligently designed.
From, “Alien Life Would Not Refute Religion — but It Would Challenge Materialistic Evolution”:
Everything we know about life tells us that it doesn’t arise naturally, but needs an intelligent designer.
At the heart of life is an information-rich molecule, DNA, bearing a language-based code that specifies the construction of highly complex molecular machines that process information in the cell. These machines read information in DNA and process it much as a computer interprets and executes programming code.
For these reasons, even atheist biologist Richard Dawkins wrote that “the machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like,” while Francis Collins, who headed the Human Genome Project, notes that “DNA is something like the hard drive on your computer,” containing “programming.”
It doesn’t matter whether hypothetical aliens have DNA just like ours. (The question of whether they would was asked by atheist Neil deGrasse Tyson last week in the New York Times.) The problem posed by life itself, given any reasonable presuppositions about it, would remain. Luskin:
Where do language-based code, computer-like information processing, or machines come from? In our experience, they have only one known cause: intelligence. The existence of ET life wouldn’t prove unguided, purposeless naturalistic evolution — it would provide another example to doubt it.
Aliens would owe their existence to a designer outside the physical universe, just as we do.
Alien life, if it exists, wouldn’t overturn anything about God. He made the universe, and could have made other intelligences than ours — be they “extraterrestrials,” spiritual beings, or anything else.
Following a credible government disclosure, figuring out where ETs fit into that spectrum would be our next task. Whatever the answer, the science of alien life would only increase our wonder at God’s creation.
That last sentence — along with biologist Michael Denton’s prediction that technological aliens, if they exist, would need to look like us and come from a planet like ours — is the key point to bear in mind in coming weeks. Read the rest at Townhall.
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Alien life would be the new religion. (again)
if we actually had pieces of crafts, and alien tech— no one would know about it. Ever.
Some ideas don’t challenge evolution. Alien life is one of them.
I’m thinking that guy hasn’t looked at the posts here on FR before he said that.
Jesus once said, “I have sheep that are not of this fold.” Some passed it off as Jews vs Gentiles. Could he have meant extraterrestrial? Regardless, I’ll still be a believer.
If high level life exists on other planets, it will be based upon DNA just like life on Earth.
DNA is too complex to evolve. Darwin would call it irreducibly complex.
I’ll consider all these questions only when some actual proof is offered.
Did Jesus die for sins on another alien world?
Is he Man and God or some little green alien and God?
I do not believe there is intellent life on an alien planet, and if there is, I 100% believe it to be Humans
Did Jesus die for sins on another alien world?
Is he Man and God or some little green alien and God?
I do not believe there is intellent life on an alien planet, and if there is, I 100% believe it to be Humans
Revelation of Alien life would just kick the ball back up the field.
Where did THAT life come from?.............
A long time ago, I read a story about aliens whose sacred scripture said a species “made in the image of God” was at a certain star — Sol, our Sun.
Well, they trucked across the Galaxy, at great effort.
And were sorely disappointed.
Yep, I can see “aliens” and “alien technology” becoming the basis for a scientism-based religion. I have no idea what these things are, but I am confident they do exist. My personal hunch is that they are not extraterrestrial aliens (for all sorts of reasons), but are instead demonic entities. That would explain their often sadistic behavior, their claimed efforts to create “alien”-human hybrids (similar to the nephalim), and their spirit-like abilities (walking through walls, appearing and disappearing, etc.). I also find it interesting that they seem to have always been with us, throughout human history, rather than having just suddenly arrived at some point in time.
I also have an admittedly wild theory that if these are spiritual beings of some kind (demons), and given that the Bible briefly describes demons mating with human women in ancient times to produce a race of hybrid beings, I’ve wondered if the explanation for cattle mutilations may be be that demons are using the biological material from them (flesh, DNA, etc.) to assemble fake alien entities that they control (possess) to deceive humans?
God loves to create life. One only has to look at our planet. There are fish that live at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. Man certainly does not fish for them there yet they exist in such depths and would die if they surfaced.
So there could be some sort of life elsewhere on the trillions of planets he has created. Or not. But the real question to me is not whether there are plants and animals elsewhere but whether there is intelligent life elsewhere.
I am not sure we could ever investigate every star system in the Milky Way but even if we did that would not address whether life exists in the trillions of other galaxies we can’t reach or explore. Andromeda the nearest proper galaxy is 2.5 million light years away.
What is fascinating to me is that we may never really know the answer because it would be impossible to explore each and every galaxy. I think the answer is way above our pay grade.
It could challenge religion and the theory of evolution, or it could do neither.
Perhaps if information was actually shared, by governments, the Vatican, etc.; we’d have a clearer picture.
Ping
Do you suppose God wouldn't create life elsewhere because He couldn't resolve problems like that?
Here we go again, opining on a subject whose proponents have never produced a living example of their proposed “aliens” to any large amount of people, or the general public.
Of course it is possible to have non earthly living creatures in our universe but we need to wait for better evidence. Until then it is all hot air.
Yep, we don’t know what is happening yet. But one thing seems apparent at this stage: There are non-human entities, either physical or “spiritual” (interdimensional) who possess intellectual and technological abilities that are FAR beyond human capabilities. It’s important that at least that one Earth-shaking fact be revealed to the public, regardless of whether further details are immediately disclosed. Most everyday folks still think “UFOs” are just a big joke, and nearly all media coverage of the topic is nothing more than an opportunity for empty-headed talking heads to yuck it up. It’s time those morons were slapped by the cold hard reality and made to face the truth that, regardless of whatever the ultimate answer is, what we think of as daily life is a very small bubble in an enormous reality that we can’t always see.
There would be great benefit to shaking people awake to the reality that there is vastly more to our existence and ultimate destination in life than television, social media, the Kardashians, and the other trifles of daily life.
What if we are the aliens and before we could leave a Trex ate the crafts?.
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