The UFO Deception: An Orthodox Christian Perspective

by Spyridon Bailey

The mistake is to imagine that geocentrism meant that the Earth’s place at the centre of the universe gave special status. In fact seeing Earth’s position at the centre was as a recognition of its heaviness, since things fall to earth from the heavens. This placed the earth near the bottom of the cosmos rather than the top, a place where things were corrupted and fallen.

Evolution is the philosophy that makes belief in E.T.s possible, not just as aliens from outer space, but as a vision of our own potential future. After all, if aliens exist, there is no reason to assume that we were not the first, and so why shouldn’t at least a few of them be ahead of us in the space race?

Evolutionary Theory pre-supposes a lot about the beginning of life itself because as any honest biologist will admit, science can say very little about the origin of life from inorganic matter, let alone the move to complex life.

Evolution is a product of modern thinking, it is a symptom of a change in man’s perception rather than a conclusion that must be reached from the evidence.

Even amongst Orthodox Christians today there are some who choose a more allegorical interpretation of the Creation account in Genesis, but as Father Seraphim states, we are not free to choose how we wish to interpret the Holy Scriptures, but must accept the interpretations of the Holy Fathers.

There has never been found a single piece of evidence for evolution from one distinct kind of organism into another.

The plays of the Ancient Greeks, let alone Shakespeare, have become barely penetrable to the average man who can no longer cope with the complexity of sentence structure and word play that entertained the Elizabethan masses.

As the centuries have passed we have become spiritually duller; when the Church Fathers shared their divinely inspired understanding of the scriptures, it is hard to imagine that they could have foreseen the condition man’s decline would lead him

Often those who argue that modern man is morally superior to previous generations will point to social changes, such as the end of slavery. But in fact there are, according to the United Nations, more people enduring slavery than there have ever been in any time in history.

This perception that advancement in technology must automatically correlate with spiritual and moral development is entirely delusional. It is interesting to note that later in the same book Good quotes those who claim to have encountered aliens as describing them as “androgynous”; as we shall see, this peculiar idea that highly evolved beings should have indistinguishable genders conforms to Christian ideas about demons.

it was really the errors of the Enlightenment that have enabled the ideas to become so pervasive.

Christ has a human nature that was not different to ours, and we believe that He was entirely without sin. For the Orthodox, this means man’s free will was never lost, and had the western philosophers of the Enlightenment been exposed to the Church’s teaching, their reaction may have been different.

The British astronomer Fred Hoyle famously predicted in 1948 “once a photograph of the Earth, taken from the outside, is available… a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.” He was right.

growing interest in UFOs does nothing to harm public support for space exploration, and NASA may simply be using Mitchell’s statements to promote their own cause; but Mitchell has been on the fringes of conventional science in other areas too.

But in reality NASA collaborates with the CIA, the Department of Defence, the National Security Agency and a number of other agencies. Many NASA personnel are issued with high level security clearances and many of the reports that NASA produces are exempt from public disclosure.

Many of NASA’s projects are directly funded from the defence budget, and all films produced by NASA are screened by the National Security Agency before they can be seen by the public.

Researcher Lucas Tromly has observed that abduction is an almost entirely American experience, and that even within the borders of the United States, it rarely happens to people of Asian ethnicity.(13) For sceptics this is only more evidence that the reports are nothing more than fantasies produced by a particular culture.

researchers have begun to identify the similarities between UFO abductions and occult experiences.

He also notes that in both cases the victims are predominantly female (sixty-three percent), and either the victim or someone close to them will have been involved in what he describes as a “New Age” religion or activities linked to them such as astrology.

what has become known as the interdimensional hypothesis.

While supporting the reality of UFO encounters, Vallée argues that what people are encountering is a non-human form of consciousness that is able to manipulate time and space. He acknowledges that this consciousness has been deceiving humanity throughout the ages in order to manipulate us into serving its own goals.

Although I am among those who believe that UFOs are real physical objects. I do not think they are extraterrestrial in the ordinary sense of the term. In my view they present an exciting challenge to our concept of reality itself.(4)

Another reality is involved here. A reality characterized by cosmic seduction, strange signs in heaven, and paranormal events that present a rich panoply of psychic phenomena.(5)

Vallée not only predicts a radical shift away from

Our idea of the church as a social entity working within rational structures is obviously challenged by the claim of a direct communication in modern times with visible beings who seem endowed with supernatural powers.(6)

In fact many saints have warned that the immediate realms of existence beyond our conscious experience are filled with danger, for reasons we shall explore later. Vallée makes the same kind of mistake about

Any talk of angels, demons or even God, is now to be seen as a primitive misinterpretation of the UFO phenomenon.

Vallée adopts the modern arrogance of knowing better,

as we shall see, there is a great deal of evidence from the writings of the Church Fathers and various saints that these encounters have been happening for a long time, and that their true nature has been explained to us.

Vallée recognises that modern man is living through a time when a new form of folklore is developing around UFOs, one that he believes is as mistaken about the true nature of UFOs as he believes were the old traditions of the Church. From a Christian perspective we can see that both his own conclusions and those of the typical UFO believer are simply two sides of the same error,

Vallée is right when he says “to control human imagination is to shape mankind's collective destiny”,(14) since a rejection of Christian truth in favour of modern myths exposes us to more confusion and lies.

it is possible to make large sections of any population believe in the existence of supernatural races, in the possibility of flying machines, in the plurality of inhabited worlds, by exposing them to a few carefully engineered scenes the details of which are adapted to the culture and symbols of a particular time and place.(15)

Vallée reveals a lack of consistency in his approach when he states that such absurdities are to be interpreted as symbolic rather than literal, the exact opposite of how he argues Orthodox theology should be understood.

As if quoting directly from the writings of Father Seraphim Rose, Vallée concludes that UFOs will be the basis of new belief systems:

I think the stage is set for the appearance of new faiths, centred on the UFO belief. To a greater degree than all the phenomena modern science is confronting, the UFO can inspire awe, the sense of the smallness of man, and an idea of the possibility of contact with the cosmic.(21)

He presents lists of features of both miracles and UFO encounters(22) to demonstrate that the two are really the same kind of event, never for a moment imagining that the beings who he admits create confusion and absurdity might be capable of imitating the acts of God.

there are simply too many UFO encounters for them to be alien visitors: this was also one of Carl Sagan’s objections.

Vallée’s conclusion is correct when he says “I propose that there is a spiritual control system for human consciousness and that paranormal phenomena like UFOs are one of its manifestations”.(24)

does not focus on Adamski’s involvement in Theosophy.

does not consider Whitley Streiber’s involvement with Gurdjieff’s mystical philosophy as important,

Guerin who stated: Scientists are not only embarrassed by UFOs: they’re furious because they don’t understand them. There is no possibility of explaining them in three-dimensional space-time physics.(3)

We might observe that one of the crisis of our contemporary age is that men are once more becoming aware of demonic activity, but no longer have the Christian framework from which to understand it.

Once more we see these kinds of theories invariably lead to the occult. Vallée says: The subject invites many troubling, fundamental questions. If energy and information are related, why do we only have one physics, the physics of energy? Where is the physics of information? Is the old theory of magic relevant here?(13)

In Orthodox thinking, the imagination is at the edges of consciousness, and is where demonic activity can have its greatest influence on us.

I propose to define consciousness as the process by which informational associations are retrieved and traversed. The illusion of time and space would be merely a side effect of consciousness as it traverses associations. In such a theory, apparently paranormal Phenomena like remote viewing and precognition would be expected, even common, and UFOs would lose much of their bizarre quality.(14)

Cf. Ervin Laszlo

Horgan reminds us that “Multiverse theories aren't theories—they're science fictions, theologies, works of the imagination unconstrained by evidence.”(19)

that they are also keeping advanced technology for themselves; such as something he calls zero-point or quantum vacuum energy which he says could solve the world’s environmental problems by providing pollution free energy and also end world hunger.

Greer’s philosophy has become mixed with many occult and esoteric ideas, but at the heart of his teaching is a utopian materialism. It is the belief in the potential for the creation of a society where peace reigns, and humanity is free to explore the cosmos.

One of the warning signs of any philosophy is when it calls on the overthrow of old institutions and ways of life.

However, he declares himself a pantheist when he states that not only is the universe full of life, but that the universe is alive and intelligent. This intelligence, he proposes, is not a spiritual entity, but nature’s eternal mind.