They skew more “Event Horizon” than “Close Encounters.”
So much for sci-fi-movie-informed notions that extraterrestrials are benevolent beings aiming to better humanity.
Former NASA astronaut Charles Duke claimed that UFOs are demons masquerading as angels, citing a Bible passage as evidence.
“The Lord says what we’re seeing is real, but the devil can appear as an angel of light, the Bible says,” said the 91-year-old ex-spaceman during a recent appearance on the Christian Broadcasting Network.
Duke, who became the youngest person to walk on the moon at age 36 during 1972’s Apollo 16 mission, claimed that these deep space demons are “trying to turn us away from the truth” and have us pursue alleged alien entities.
The former explorer, who was the lunar module pilot for said spacecraft, claimed that he had long believed ETs were malevolent — but no one had believed him.
“For a long time [years ago] I was praying about UFOs, and asked for a sign,” Duke said. “I felt like UFOs were demonic … but I was saying that at rotary clubs and stuff like that, and people were laughing me off the stage.”
That’s when he decided to ask the Lord for a sign: If his close friend, a businessman who never discussed such far-out topics, would broach UFOs the next morning, it would prove his theory was true.
Lo and behold, the next morning his friend allegedly said “Charlie, come on over. I want to start talking to you about UFOs,” Duke recalled.
He said his suspicions were further confirmed by a passage the Bible’s 2 Corinthians 11:14, which says: “And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.”
During this excerpt, Apostle Paul cautioned his followers about false apostles who disguise themselves as true believers espousing Christ’s gospel.
Duke appeared to imply that these alleged wolves in priest’s clothing could come from the cosmos as well.
“You can laugh at me if you want to, but that’s … what God showed me, and I’m sticking to it,” declared Duke, who also served as the spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM) for the Apollo 11 Moon landing.
Coincidentally, the former space-farer claimed he never had any close encounters during his lunar voyages.
Coincidentally, Duke isn’t the first to float a religious interpretation of UFOs. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL.), who was one of the most prominent UFO disclosure voices in the weeks since the Whitehouse announced its UFO disclosure releases, uploaded religiously-charged messages to social media.
On day of the first UFO disclosure release on May 8, the pol posted an X picture of a winged Ophanim — a wheel-like celestial entity described in the Book of Ezekiel.
Meanwhile, Vice President JD Vance theorized that UAPs (unidentified anomalous phenomena) were the non-spacely spawn of Satan.
“I don’t think they’re aliens. I think they’re demons anyway, but that’s a long discussion,” the veep told conservative podcaster Benny Johnson in March.
