The scientist also raised another issue: his belief that people in the occult are more likely to experience alien encounters. In fact, he said nations where there’s a “high incidence of occult involvement” will also see a much higher incidence of claims of alien encounters and UFOs.
“What you notice in these close encounters, it’s exclusively experienced by people who have significant involvement in the occult,” he said. “And when you remove that occult factor, that’s the end of the UFO encounters.”
Ross continued, “Increase the degree of occult, you increase the frequency of these UFO encounters.”
As a scientist and Christian, he said he wants to see people “close the doors” that allow for such experiences and separate from practices that could open pathways to what he believes is demonic in nature.
“These fallen angels can take whatever form they choose,” he said. “They can appear as your dead grandfather. They can appear as a flying saucer. They can appear as a leprechaun. And so that’s why it tells us in 1 John, ‘Tests the spirits.’ Don’t believe every supernatural being that approaches you — put them to the test.”
Ross’ comments come as the U.S. and other nations become increasingly interested in the possibility of alien life. The conversation, of course, is nothing new. In 2008, the Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, then head of the Vatican Observatory, said he saw no conflict between believing in aliens and the Bible.
“How can we exclude that life has developed elsewhere,” he reportedly said at the time. “Just as there is a multiplicity of creatures on earth, there can be other beings, even intelligent, created by God. This is not in contrast with our faith because we can’t put limits on God’s creative freedom.”
And in 2021, there was a report that NASA was engaging religious leaders to discern how people of faith would respond to the existence of aliens.
More recently, the issue has gained traction following congressional testimony alleging the U.S. has a secret program to capture and investigate UFOs, something the U.S. government has denied.
Yet with all of this interest, people like Ross take a different view: that the matters before us are spiritual in nature and must be treated as such.
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