You may have noticed a sharp uptick, of late, in “UFO” news stories (what we have long called “the great deception”).
The reason is multivariate: increased sightings, some magnified by the proliferation of podcasts and social media; military photos released several years ago that showed unidentified craft near Jacksonville, Florida, and San Diego, California; the swarm onto the scene of “whistleblowers” (former government officials, military types, and activists who say the U.S. is hiding evidence of aliens); President Donald Trump’s vow to get to the bottom of it; and most recently, an announcement by a Republican congresswoman from Florida (Anna Paulina Luna) that a task force was being formed to probe and release those alleged government secrets (among others).
Our current “Special Report” is about just such “secrets” (in this case, UFOs that are man-made).
But also, there comes a well-researched, in-depth, and interesting book by a Catholic author, Daniel O’Connor, that not only ties UFOs to a great demonic delusion, but connects it to Pope Leo XIII’s famous prophecy, in 1884, that Satan was granted a period (said to be somewhere around seventy-five to a hundred years) of extended power as a test for humanity and the Church.
Few would doubt that the world has witnessed a surge of evil—perhaps unprecedented in human history—since that year. Fascinating is that the papal vision occurred on October 13, which, thirty-three years later (yes, that number 33), would be the date for the great Fátima sun miracle.
It certainly seems that a period of extended evil began in earnest, for within that hundred-year window (if we can hold Heaven to exact time frames, instead of “a hundred years” or “a century” as a figure of speech), were: World War One, the Great Spanish Flu pandemic, birth of Hollywood, the Great Depression, the rise of atheist Communism in Russia, formation of the diabolical Soviet Union, the birth of rock-and-roll music, ascendancy of Hitler, World War Two, the Holocaust, invention of the atomic bomb, feminism, gay “rights,” the Sixties, drugs, and “free sex,” Viet Nam, race riots, the spread of occultism, pornography, and so forth.
Quite a century; quite a package!
Add to it the birth of modern history’s most notorious occultist, Aleister Crowley, right at the year 1900.
As for rock music, few likewise are aware that the godfather of rock, Robert Johnson, famously sold his soul to the devil within the time frame, and when Elvis Presley was born, in 1938, a blue UFO was seen over his home in Tupelo, Mississippi. (Through his life, Elvis was fixated on UFOs, believing he was in communication with them, and focused on various forms of occultism.)
So we have all that, although O’Connor argues that the actual beginning of the “century” forewarned about by Pope Leo was perhaps not 1884 or 1900 but 1947.
Reason: UFOs are a key part of what his book calls The First and Last Deception: Aliens, UFOs, AI, and the Return of Eden’s Demise.
And two of the most famous incidents in UFO history in fact occurred in 1947: the sighting of objects above Mount Rainier by a pilot named Kenneth Arnold, who described them as moving at fantastic speeds like “saucers” skipping over water, and the alleged crash of an alien craft near Roswell, New Mexico (along, we might add, with a rash of other reports, that same year, up and down the western part of America).
A few years later were two major UFO flaps over Washington D.C. itself. In the Sixties, there was a famous flap in Michigan. The list is long.
UFOs became a “thing,” studied by the government.
It was the start of an inundation: the “abductions” of Barney and Betty Hill; a supposed similar alien encounter in Pascagoula, Mississippi; another abduction in Arizona (Travis Walton); and so forth, reaching a peak in recent years. Thousands now claim to have been taken aboard alien craft. The fruit: usually, terror.
So, yes, it has been intense since 1947.
But can we so definitely wrap UFOs, as well as AI, around what Leo XIII reported?
We’ll leave that up to you. O’Connor’s argument: the world wars and other demonism that immediately followed Pope Leo’s “vision” were normal forms of evil, not the type that would require extended demonic power, whereas the whole alien-AI thing, with blatant physical and aerial manifestations, would fit the bill.
Dates can indeed be interesting. 1947 was the year of Aleister Crowley’s death, and also the year of Israel’s War of Independence (which has spawned constant tension in the Middle East). It was the beginning of the Cold War. It was also the year the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists created the “Doomsday Clock,” the author argues.
We’ll take this and more to discernment. The book is about far more than that, analyzing famous and dubious figures in ufology, looking at the effects of so-called UFOs in surprising corners (now called “UAPs,” for unidentified anomalous phenomena), presenting a critical discussion of people involved in the field, showing the ties to parapsychology, the occult, and New Age, and then extending it all into artificial intelligence and quantum computation.
Most disconcerting: Catholics who are now behind promotion of the alien “deception,” says O’Connor. Prime among these: podcast celebrities such as Professor Diana Walsh Heath-Pasulka. Even the Vatican astronomer has warmed to the idea of alien life.
And the universe is huge.
But home to strange creatures that are invading earth?
“The enemy is real, but not what people think,” notes one blurb on the cover. “We must waste no time now in forming a Catholic fortress against a tsunami of extraterrestrial lies that is advancing, threatening to kill the faith of many.”
That is: a new, false “religion.” Aliens replacing God.
Says another, “Daniel O’Connor convincingly argues that the UFO phenomenon is demonic in origin… The antichrist could make use of this great falsehood.”
It’s a worthwhile book. For that certainly is a concern.
[resources: The First and Last Deception: Aliens, UFOs, AI, and the Return of Eden’s Demise.]
