Priest claims UFOs are a devilish tool to weaken faith

Father Carlos Martins, an Ontario-born priest and exorcist, claims UFOs are a tool of the devil. He argues this phenomenon is a spiritual deception meant to weaken faith in the Bible.

Martins describes a specific encounter involving a friend who later embraced Christianity. The friend watched a massive spacecraft hover silently over a suburban park.

Witnesses stated the object stretched across many football fields. They could even see details on its surface.

The craft reportedly vanished instantly, accelerating to bullet speed in under a minute. No other residents noticed the event, and no news reports followed.

After converting, the friend concluded the sighting was a supernatural illusion sent by Satan. Speaking to the Daily Mail, Martins said the devil creates a competing account to scripture.

He believes this strategy casts doubt on divine revelation and undermines Christian truth. Modern UFO stories, he adds, often mirror the torment seen in demonic possession cases.

Vice President J D Vance echoed this sentiment on a podcast in March. He stated he does not believe aliens exist, but rather demons.

Martins converted from atheism during his undergraduate studies. He credits this friend's experience for radically changing his understanding of the UFO phenomenon.

The priest asserts that Satan uses belief in extraterrestrial life to repudiate the truth of revelation. This indirect challenge threatens the foundations of Judeo-Christian scripture.

It was not a sudden acceleration, but an instant darting away into the sky," Martins recalled regarding the encounter.

He noted that the most unsettling element was the total lack of witnesses to the gigantic craft.

Local newspapers remained silent, emergency calls were absent, and no other resident in the town reported seeing the alleged spacecraft.

For years, his friend struggled to make sense of the experience until he eventually converted to Christianity.

Martins recounted their subsequent conversations after the conversion, during which he asked his friend for his interpretation of the event.

His friend responded without hesitation, stating clearly that the phenomenon was undoubtedly the devil.

"If I were to accept the existence of extraterrestrial life," the friend explained, "it would cast doubt on the Christian account of God's plan for the universe."

Martins observed that reports linking UFO sightings and alien encounters with exorcism cases have increased significantly over the last decade.

"There has definitely been a rise in the integration of extraterrestrial life concepts with exorcism practices," Martins explained regarding the trend.

He acknowledged that while not common, the overlap between these topics is certainly on the rise.

Above, a still from a video released by the Trump administration's disclosure appears to show a glowing object resembling an eight-pointed star.

The object displayed uneven arms moving across the sky, almost appearing to shape-shift while in mid-air.

Martins believes many UFO sightings are actually elaborate illusions designed to deceive human senses.

"The senses can be deceived," he stated. "Fake sense experiences can be produced, and that is the point."

He described these phenomena as illusions or mirages that he has witnessed many times in his ministry.

The priest claimed to have witnessed this specific phenomenon firsthand while performing an exorcism on a firefighter he believed was possessed.

Martins said he secretly flicked a tiny amount of holy water onto the man's clothing while walking behind him during the ritual.

According to Martins, the man reacted violently to the holy water, shooting up out of his chair and hissing.

"He started hissing, and his teeth seemed to grow about two inches, like there were fangs at that moment," Martins said.

He described seeing fangs protruding from the man's mouth for a split second during the violent episode.

Martins believes this apparent transformation was not physically real, but rather a visual illusion generated by demonic forces.

"The devil is perfectly capable of bending light," the priest said. "He is capable of causing a mirage and an illusion."

He went on to describe the devil as the greatest magician and sleight of hand performer that has ever existed.

The priest also argued that alleged alien abductions closely resemble accounts of demonic oppression and possession.

"When you read accounts of people allegedly abducted," Martins said, "they are very similar to ones that are demonically tortured."

He pointed out that there are large gaps in memory common to both types of accounts.

He added that the victim's experience is consistently the same across the board, involving an abuse of the body and the person.

Martins believes the modern fascination with extraterrestrials emerged during the Space Age and gradually replaced older supernatural folklore.

"This is the modern-day folk account of leprechauns, tooth fairies, and pixies," he said.

He explained that this shift occurred only when humanity entered the Space Age and changed its view of the world.

He concluded that this new realm became a blank slate upon which the devil could approve and dictate a new story.