The UN today contains over 200 thousand documentary stories related to aliens and flying saucers. Among them there are also testimonies of clergymen.
A curious document was recently discovered in church archives by French historians. It is dated by 840 AD. e. It follows from it that the existence of flying saucers is denied not only by modern official science. The early Christian church also opposed them. At that time an archbishop named Argobar lived in Lyon. This priest became famous for the fact that he anathematized the local peasants, who claimed that "there are ships in the clouds, whose inhabitants came here from a land called Magonia."
The peasants allegedly traded with the inhabitants of transcendental aircraft. And once, the document testifies, the ignorant rabble stoned to death four aliens - three men and one woman, who fell out of the sky ship.
Who lived in the IV century A. D. e. in Palestine, the Christian abbot Hilarion told stories that were somewhat reminiscent of modern descriptions of UFO encounters. According to him, he had occasion to see bizarre machines that made strange sounds. The Abbot fancied that he heard the sad weeping of women and children, the mooing of cattle, the roar of lions, and even the noise of a real battle. Hilarion himself considered all these phenomena to be manifestations of demonic activity.
“The Russian monastery archives keep quite a lot of evidence of UFO encounters. For example, in the “replies from the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery to the authorities” dated August 25, 1650, it is said: “from the bright heavens, not from the cloud, a great fire went out to Robozero and walked at noon along the lake above the water, in all directions twenty fathoms and more, and on the side of that flame, the smoke is blue, and in front of it two fathoms for twenty went two beams of fire
In 1852 in Knock, Ireland, witnesses observed a large luminous ball in the night sky above the church, and then saw the Virgin Mary at the church pediment, accompanied by strange, little like people, luminous creatures.
The maiden stood with her arms outstretched up and to the sides. In such a pose, none of the eyewitnesses had ever seen her before either in paintings or in sculptural images. One of the witnesses, Bridget Trench, captured by the spectacle, rushed to meet the vision, wanting to kiss the feet of the Virgin. But her arms wrapped around the void.
“Trying to hug the Virgo, I didn’t feel anything except the wall, but the figures looked so voluminous and alive that I couldn’t understand and wondered why my hands didn’t feel what my eyes saw so clearly and distinctly,” the woman said.
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When the parish priest was informed of the vision, he suggested that it must have been a reflection from the stained glass windows of the church, and calmly spent the rest of the evening without leaving the house. And ten days after the incident, one of the witnesses - a deaf child - gained hearing, and the other was cured of cancer.
"At the request of a commission of inquiry formed by the Archbishop of Tuam, a professor from Meinuf conducted a special experiment. In the presence of twenty priests, using a magic lantern, he projected the picture onto the pediment and established that the vision could not have been the result of a photographic hoax. Later, a correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph conducted a self-examination and stated the following: Whatever the reason for the visions, the effect of the magic lantern should in any case be ruled out."
Many details of this story are similar to UFO sightings reports: an unusual pulsing fireball, glowing creatures in or around it, and, finally, miraculous healings.
The alien vanished into thin air
In 1790, the bishop of Paris sent his assistant to Alençon on special assignments, who was to sort out the incredible events that took place in this provincial city. Police officer La Boeffe went with the priest. Upon arrival, they drew up the following report to their superiors:
“On June 12 at 5 o'clock in the morning, several peasants saw an unusual spherical object, which, as it seemed to them, was engulfed in flames. At first they thought it was the Montgolfier balloon on fire. But its tremendous speed and the whistling sound it made surprised them. The ball slowed down, swayed and sank to the top of the mountain, tearing up all the vegetation around it by the roots.
The heat emanating from the ball was so intense that nearby trees and bushes caught fire. The peasants managed to extinguish the fire, which otherwise threatened to destroy everything around. Even in the evening, the ball is still hot. And then a completely unusual, one might say, incredible event happened. He was observed by two burgomasters, one physicist and four other respectable residents. We must not forget about dozens of peasants who were here.
A ball of such a size that a carriage could fit in it, remained unharmed after its fall. Not far from him there were a crowd of people who had found out about the event and were now tormented by curiosity.
Suddenly, something like a door opened in the ball and, what is most striking, a creature appeared similar to us, only strangely dressed. The clothes fit tightly around the body. Noticing the crowd of people, this man muttered something unintelligible and rushed headlong into a nearby grove. The peasants instinctively recoiled from the ball in fright, and this saved them, since in the next instant it exploded noiselessly, and its fragments, scattered in all directions, turned into dust.
The search for a mysterious creature was in vain. It seemed that he simply disappeared into the air, since until now not the slightest trace of it has been found …"
Abbot Jean-Marie-Baptiste Vianne, who lived in the French village of Ars in the 19th century, became famous for his stories of encounters with evil spirits. Some of these stories sound very similar to modern descriptions of close encounters with "aliens." The light that appears in the presence of Vianne is reminiscent of UFOs and related phenomena.
Viannet's biographer, François Trochu, describes an incident with the abbot in December 1826. Early in the morning before sunrise, Viannet went on foot to Saint-Triver-sur-Monign, where he was to deliver a sermon. Suddenly the space around Vianne was filled with "ominous" lights, the air itself seemed to be on fire, and the roadside bushes looked engulfed in flames. Troshu attributed this fire to the devil and assumed that he was trying in this way to instill timidity in Vianne's soul, but the priest continued on his way.
UFO from the point of view of demonology
Ufologists constantly draw numerous parallels between UFO-related phenomena and the alleged manifestations of demonic forces. And the American Orthodox priest Father Seraphim Rose directly called a series of UFO sightings "the activity of evil spirits." It is impossible to prove the truth of this hypothesis (at least at the present time), but the similarities between the phenomena associated with UFOs and some of the descriptions given in the demonological literature are impressive. For example, temperature effects that are mentioned in many descriptions of UFO encounters (most often it is a feeling of extreme cold), no less often appear in stories about close observation of demons.
Another common feature of demonic activity and UFO sightings is all sorts of unpleasant odors. In particular, contemporary American contactee Albert Bender, who reported on his encounters with aliens, stated that he smelled a distinct smell of sulfur in the presence of aliens.
“There are other features that unite the phenomena associated with UFOs, and manifestations of demonic power: this is telepathy, and the ability to acquire the most varied forms, sweep through the air with great speed, become invisible, and the fiery chariots of demons flying through the air, so similar to modern descriptions of light-emitting UFOs."
“On February 1, 1620, something fell from the sky into the roof of the cathedral in the French town of Quimper-Corentin, causing a powerful explosion, as a result of which the roof collapsed with a terrible crash. People came running to the cathedral from all over the city and among the fire and smoke they saw a green devil doing his dirty work - fanning the fire! As local newspapers later wrote, the devil was clearly visible to everyone inside the fire, sometimes gray, sometimes blue or yellow."
“The authorities ordered to throw several consecrated objects, hundreds of one and a half buckets of water and forty or fifty wheelbarrows of fertilizers into the roaring flame at the same time. In vain. The devil was still there and the fire continued to rage. Something more radical had to be done. The consecrated wafer was placed inside a loaf of bread and thrown into the flame
»The parallels between the manifestations of demonic activity and descriptions of UFO encounters continue in such areas as sexual contacts. It has been stated many times that aliens abducted earthlings and forced them to have sexual intercourse with them. This is very reminiscent of the stories about succubi and incubi - evil spirits who have sexual relations with people. As some of the abduction victims said, "ETs generally have a strong interest in the human reproductive and excretory systems."
"Some researchers of extraterrestrial aliens associate their activities with the fulfillment of the biblical prophecy that the Antichrist will definitely manifest himself immediately before the new coming of Christ and will cast fire from heaven to earth." The Bible also contains predictions that before the coming of the Antichrist and the subsequent end of this era, signs and wonders will appear in heaven. " Reflections and interpretations on this topic have by now countless volumes, most of which were written by Evangelical Protestants and devoted to the role of UFOs in the prophecies mentioned above. Some authors even claimed that the Antichrist himself would appear on earth in the guise of an alien."
The mystery of the holy inquisition
In the archives of the Holy Inquisition, stored in the German city of Freiberg, a 16th century manuscript was found, the content of which stunned scholars. The document described the torture to which "a captured hellish demon was subjected to snatch the unfortunate man from the clutches of Satan."
The description of the "hellish creature", condemned to terrible torment, to the smallest detail corresponds to modern eyewitness accounts who encountered aliens.
“The demon was short in stature, had an exorbitantly large head, huge and slanting eyes, thin lips and a small mouth. His skin and blood were green, which is indisputable proof of satanic origin, for no creature of God has green blood and never had."
It is not known how the UFO creature fell into the hands of the Holy Inquisition. From the information contained in the manuscript, it follows that it remained after the explosion of the flying saucer. The sound and fire caught the attention of the surrounding residents. The alien was found hanging from a tree, apparently on the remains of a parachute.
The captured person was immediately handed over to the representatives of the Holy Inquisition. They soon found out that the alien "knows how to speak humanly and understands words." This is what killed him. The Holy Fathers came to the conclusion that if "the victim knows how to speak, then maybe he will somehow be able to wrestle him from the clutches of Satan and return him to the bosom of holiness." To achieve this, one had to first awaken his conscience and incline him to confess his sins. The same procedure was followed as for the interrogation of witches.
First, he was asked the question: "How many unborn children have you killed in the mother's womb?" The alien began to object and tried to explain something, but "a hot iron and breaking joints quickly brought him to prudence." The unfortunate man confessed to committing "one hundred dozen" (120 abortions), which made the inquisitorial fathers' hair stand on end. This number shocked them.
Then he was asked how many times he had desecrated objects of religious worship. Here the alien, finally realizing what it was about, tried to confess to the least amount of wrongdoing, but the inquisitors, remembering his previous answer, did not allow themselves to be fooled. Molten tin, poured into open wounds, led to the fact that after each "session" the alien howling in pain called more and more numbers. After ten thousand, the interrogators lost their nerves. They moved on to the following questions: "Who was your assistant?" Here, a list of diabolical names was read to the emaciated alien, and he confirmed his connection with each of the named.
"How many girls have you seduced by leading them into temptation?" - The interrogated confessed to only three dozen, which the inquisitorial fathers believed, claiming that "the demon is too ugly to inflame many girls with a sinful attraction."
"How many times have you sent pestilence to people and animals?" - Here, the alien also tried to reduce his guilt, but when the executioner squeezed his fingers in an iron grip, he quickly changed his testimony and immediately admitted that he had sent five wars, as well as the syphilis epidemic that had happened in Europe in recent years.
The fathers-inquisitors, shocked by these frightening confessions, decided that "it is not in human power to snatch this unfortunate creature from the clutches of the devil" and "it must be drowned." While they were contemplating execution, the alien died of his wounds. His corpse was immediately burned, and the ashes were mixed with gunpowder and loaded into a cannon. After the exorcism procedure, a shot rang out, and there was not even a trace of the unfortunate alien …
"Good people" by Priest Kirk
"In the second half of the 17th century, the Scottish priest Kirk of Aberfoyle collected all he could find, stories about certain" good people "and wrote a treatise called The Secret Union of Elves, Fauns and Fairies", where he systematized eyewitness accounts of strange creatures that bothered Scottish farmers."
Already in our time, the famous American ufologist of French origin, Jacques Vallee, sought out this treatise in the archives and summarized the priest's conclusions about elves and other air creatures.
"That's what came out of it. They are something intermediate between man and angels. They have very light fluid bodies, comparable to dense clouds. They are mostly seen at night. They can appear and disappear at will. They are smart and inquisitive, have the power to take whatever they like with them."
“While people had not yet settled in most of the territory of the earth, these creatures lived on it. Their civilization left footprints on the mountaintops
They change their place of residence every three months, because they do not like to stay in the same place, but prefer to travel. It is then that meetings take place that inspire fear in people, even on highways.
Their bodies, due to their ability to change, allow them to float through the air with all their household members. It is believed that their houses are surprisingly large and beautiful, but most often they are inaccessible to human eyesight. Kirk compares them to enchanted islands. These houses have lamps that never go out and a fire that burns without wood.
They say very little. When it comes to speaking, they use whistle-like language. Their habits and language when they speak with people are the same as those of the inhabitants of the places where they live.
»Their philosophy is based on the following principles: nothing dies
Whenever they feel like it, they can magically force themselves to appear before us.
According to Kirk, the bodies of "good people" are so adaptable thanks to the spirit that controls them that they can be made visible or invisible whenever they please.
Gennady FEDOTOV
