After one of the broadcasts where we covered the case of Brazilian UFO from Varginha, I received several messages from viewers. They were honest, sensitive, and showed genuine concern. I realized how easily the human mind can connect things that are actually unrelated. One of the messages went something like this:

"How can you be sure that those beings from Varginhi, referred to as 'horned creatures', are not actually servants of the devil?"

Yes, that's right. Aliens as demons? At the time, it seemed absurd. But then I realized it wasn't stupid. It's fear of the unknown, who looks for the closest available box. And in cultures where religious thinking is strongly present, this box is often theological. And this is where the problem begins, which is worth taking a moment to analyze.

There is one saying that Dr. Steven Greer He likes to quote. And rightly so. His strength lies in simplicity and common sense. The author is Monsignor Corrado Balducci, a Catholic theologian and official Vatican expert on demonology. A man who has dealt with the topic of the "demonic" his entire life, systematically and without sensationalism.

His sentence is:

"The devil and demons don't need flying saucers."

And that basically says it all. Not because Balducci denied the existence of the spiritual world. On the contrary. He took it so seriously that he was aware of its own internal logicAnd that is completely different from the world of physical objects, technology, and observation.

Teologie

If we take theology seriously, it does not work with metal machines, radars, flight maneuvers, or physical footprints on the ground. Spiritual beings in the religious sense do not need propulsion, they do not need materials, they do not need vessels, they do not need to hide from fighter jets, they do not need to crash, they do not need to be transported to military facilities. As soon as we talk about something that has shape, weight, trajectory, speedwhat someone is watching the sensors and someone else is seeing with their own eyes, we are moving outside the field of classical theology. That's not an attack on faith. That's respecting it.

The Varginha case is a good example in this regard. The descriptions of the beings that appear in that case – whatever they were – are based on human language and symbolism. Corners they can mean protrusions, ridges, anatomical peculiarities. The human mind tends to describe the unknown using familiar concepts. But here something extra often happens. The symbolic description begins to take verbatim and immediately becomes associated with religious meaning. And so from unknown beings Stane demon. But this jump says nothing about the creature. It says a lot about us.

Demonic abbreviations

Unfortunately, recently, a similar short-circuit of thought has also appeared among publicly influential figures. J.D. Vance in some of his statements he suggests that the UAP phenomenon may be of a "spiritual" or "dark" nature. Similarly Tucker Carlson He repeatedly says that he finds the whole topic "disturbing" and that it could be related to something "not of this world" in a religious sense. One thing is felt above all in both: uncertainty. Not ill will, not an attempt to manipulate, but a common human fear that reality may be more complex than we thought. The problem arises when this fear begins to pose as an explanation.

On the opposite side of the spectrum is, for example, Tim Burchett. A person who openly professes his faith, but at the same time speaks about UAP soberly, objectively and without moralizing. He does not talk about demons. He talks about objects, technologies, military testimonies and the need for transparency. His position is actually very simple: something is happening, we do not know exactly what, and therefore we should investigate it – not fear it. And that is a difference that is worth noting.

A question of faith or understanding the unknown?

When someone today automatically labels an unknown intelligence as demonic, they are doing neither faith nor knowledge a service. They are doing one thing: closes the question before it is even asked. Moreover, this puts us on thin ice. Once we start attributing moral evil to beings just because they are different, we are moving very close to the thinking we know from our own history. Only this time we have extended it from human groups to the entire universe. Steven Greer he uses an apt term for this: alienism. Prejudice against non-human intelligence (NHIA). It is the same as if we said: "You don't look like us, that's why you're dangerous."

Fear of the unknown

So perhaps we should ask ourselves other questions:

1. What if unknown doesn't mean bad?
2. What if another intelligence doesn't have to be either a savior or a demon?
3. What if the universe is simply more diverse than we could ever imagine?
4. And what if the biggest challenge of the whole UFO topic isn't the question who are they, Of how do we reactwhen we come across something that doesn't fit into our old boxes?

Balducci's sentence doesn't seem like a joke in this light. It's a reminder of healthy distinction. The spiritual world has its depth. Physical reality has its structure. And mixing them together just because we're afraid of the unknown doesn't make sense.

Demons, if they exist, don't need flying saucers. And if there are other intelligences out there, maybe they deserve more than the label we slap on them the moment we stop asking questions. Maybe it's not about what arrived. Maybe it's about What do we think about it now?.