WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — The Trump administration on Friday released files documenting observations of “extraterrestrial” phenomena, including UFOs, or what it refers to as Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).
A new U.S. Department of War website allows the public to peruse files including eyewitness testimonies, investigative records, public reports, and photos regarding UFOs documented as far back as at least the 1940s.
One published report, for example, tells how three teams of law enforcement special agents “independently” described seeing orange “orbs” in the sky emit smaller red orbs, after which the orange orbs would disappear.
Another report, compiled from multiple eyewitness accounts from September 2023, describes an “ellipsoid bronze metallic object materializing out of a bright light in the sky, 130-195 feet in length, and disappearing instantaneously.”
The disclosure is a response to President Donald Trump’s directive to “Begin the process of identifying and releasing government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs),” as he previously announced in a Truth Social post.
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The Department of War said that it “will be releasing new materials on a rolling basis as they are discovered and declassified, with tranches posted every few weeks.”
Catholic philosopher Daniel O’Connor has warned for years of a forthcoming alien deception that will serve as a significant trial for the Church. He and many others believe the UFO phenomena – which in some cases appear to defy physics – are demonic in origin.
O’Connor previously told LifeSiteNews Editor-in-Chief John-Henry Westen that the public is gradually being acclimated to the idea of aliens, like the proverbial frog slowly boiled in a pot of water, so that we may eventually be presented with a “new gospel” from “the heavens” to replace Christ’s Gospel.
He has cited 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 as an indication that demons can deceive human beings with “wonders” such as that of apparent UFOs: The lawless one comes “with all power and with pretended signs and wonders … with all wicked deception”; God sends a “strong delusion” so that people “believe what is false.” O’Connor says we may understand this to include a great end-times deception involving aliens/UFOs.
He has also pointed out that there are repeated reports “of these supposed aliens fleeing at the name of Jesus,” which he noted are “the exact same reactions we would expect from a demonic encounter.”
O’Connor emphasizes that the Genesis creation account shows that God created the physical universe for man and earth alone: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1) Everything the account describes thereafter is for man on earth, with the exception of an allusion to angelic beings, some of which fell and became demons.
He has also cited several popes who have condemned the idea that there is alien life. For example, Pope St. Zachary, in an 8th century letter to St. Boniface regarding Virgil of Salzburg, condemned as “perverse and abominable … in opposition to God, and to his own soul’s detriment” the teaching that there is “another world and other men beneath the earth, or even the sun and moon.” Pope Pius II in Cum sicut accepimus condemned the propositions of Zaninus de Solcia, including that “God created another world than this one, and in its time many other men and women existed, and consequently Adam was not the first man.” He called these “most pernicious errors” and “a sacrilegious attempt against the dogmas of the holy Fathers.”
The Catechism of the Catholic Church affirms this, stating that “Of all visible creatures, only man is able to know and love his Creator … he alone is called to share … in God’s own life” (CCC §355–356) and that the universe is “destined for and addressed to man.” (CCC §299)