Demonic UFO hypothesis


The demonic UFO hypothesis is the proposal that unidentified flying object sightings are the result of a satanic influence, or are themselves demons.

Chronology

Occultist Marjorie Cameron connected the 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO incident to the recent death of her partner Jack Parsons, a rocketry expert and disciple of Aleister Crowley.
In 1954, faith healer and evangelist Walter Vinson "W.V." Grant Sr published the booklet "Men in Flying Saucers Identified: Not a Mystery!" suggesting UFOs were demonic.
In the end of the 1960s, British UFO author Gordon Creighton endorsed the theory.
In the wake of the 1973 Pascagoula incident, Rev. Bill Riddick preached a sermon suggesting UFOs were demonic. In 1974, Clifford Wilson authored UFOs and their Mission Impossible which popularized the demonic hypothesis. In the 1975 book UFOs: What on Earth is Happening?, Christian fundamentalist authors John Weldon and Zola Levitt suggested demons are responsible for UFO sightings. Weldon collaborated with Clifford Wilson on the 1978 text Close Encounters: A Better Explanation.
Apocalyptic author Hal Lindsey wrote of demonic UFOs in The 1980s: Countdown to Armageddon. In 1982, Rev. W.T. Widman of Arizona made headlines for his claim that demons fly UFOs.
The 2002 book Lights in the Sky & Little Green Men expanded on the topic. In 2010, British author Nick Redfern explored this concept in his book Final Events, subtitled "Demonic UFOs, Alien Abductions, the Government, and the Afterlife".
Beginning in the late 2010s, Luis Elizondo and others in the Disclosure movement discussed the demonic hypothesis.

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