It is possible that UFOs and their pilots are not at all “aliens” from a distant planet, but rather “spiritual entities” that have inhabited the Earth for as long as humanity itself.
At least, that’s the “supernatural” theory that Fox News veteran and former MSNBC host Tucker Carlson presented this week on comedian Joe Rogan’s podcast.
“There’s a ton of evidence that they’re under the ocean and under the ground,” Carlson told Rogan’s listeners during the show’s usual three-hour talk format, adding, “They’ve been here for a long time.” “. .’
Carlson’s latest comments echo an increasingly common refrain from lawmakers curious about UFOs, including Missouri Rep. Eric Burlison and fellow Republican lawmaker Tim Burchett, who compared UFOs to biblical entities last year.
UFOs and their pilots may not be “aliens” from a distant planet at all, but rather “spiritual entities” that have inhabited Earth for as long as humanity itself, according to Fox News veteran and former MSNBC host, Tucker Carlson, who spoke. this week at The Joe Rogan Experience
Above, Rep. Tim Burchett (left) with Rep. Eric Burlison, a member of the UAP Caucus, during a press conference held by members of the House Oversight Committee prior to a public hearing on UFOs last July. Both congressmen have compared UFOs to biblical entities over the past year.
“The first chapter of Ezekiel is pretty clear about a UFO sighting,” Rep. Burchett told reporters in January 2023, before his attempt to bring UFO whistleblowers to testify before Congress last summer.
“Every time I use the term ‘angels,'” added Rep. Burlison, who has been aware of classified reports on the UFO phenomenon, “to me, it is synonymous with an extradimensional being.”
Tucker Carlson seemed to seriously sign on to these notions in his appearance on the April 19 podcastwhile claiming ignorance about many unanswered questions on the topic, now more commonly called Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena or UAP.
“They’re from here and they’ve been here for thousands of years,” Carlson said, “whatever they are.”
“And it’s pretty clear to me that they are ‘spiritual entities,'” he continued, “whatever that means.”
The veteran announcer explained that by ‘supernatural’ he meant that beings were ‘above observable nature’ and that ‘they do not behave according to the laws of science.’
“Once these facts are established,” Carlson said rhetorically, “what conclusion do you draw?”
At the beginning of 2024, Rogan commented about Carlson’s growing public interest in UFOs, wondering before Carlson’s appearance on his show: ‘What does he know?’
But speculation linking UFOs with religious visitations and/or theories about interdimensional beings has been a recurring feature within the discourse on the subject since the beginning of the 20th century.
Above, the 16th-century painting titled “The Virgin with San Giovannino” is believed to be the work of Italian Renaissance artist Domenico Ghirlandaio. Some believe the painting includes a reference to “ancient” UFOs with an object in the sky seen over the left shoulder of the Virgin Mary.
Above, a closer look at the mysterious glowing aerial object depicted in Ghirlandaio’s painting.
The concept acquired its highest profile and arguably most reputable with the publication of the book ‘Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers’ by astronomer and Internet pioneer Jacques Vallée in 1969.
Vallée, who later served as the inspiration for François Truffaut’s character in Steven Spielberg’s UFO blockbuster ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’, had spent years reading volumes of ancient texts for this groundbreaking tome.
He paired 1,180 encounters with “luminous” flying clay pots reported from Japan, Roman accounts of floating “shields,” and Native American stories of “sky baskets” to argue for continuity with modern cases of “flying saucers.”
In more recent years, Vallée, now a Silicon Valley venture capitalist and computer scientist, published a study of physical evidence of a UFO crash in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, Progress in Aerospace Sciences.
like he said cablingVallée hopes the research will become “a model […] how serious UFO research could be in the future, if the rules are followed.’
But similar arguments, linking UFOs to demonic entities or angelic miracles, have also been presented in less academic form on cable television shows like ‘Ancient Aliens’ and online by conspiracy theorists and evangelical Christians, among others.
Phenomena magazine editor Brian Allan, to cite one story, spoke with Anglican pastor Ray Boeche, who claims that a faction within the Pentagon deeply believes that UFOs are the product of demonic forces.
“The Defense Intelligence Agency was looking at this demonic element and they labeled these types of aliens as ‘non-human entities,'” Allan said.
“They believed there was a demonic component to the UFO phenomenon: they are not invading us, it is biblical.”