A conservative US Catholic nun has warned that every UFO sighting and supposed alien encounter may in fact be a brush with ‘fallen angels,’ arguing that the strange lights and craft reported in the skies are part of a spiritual deception unfolding in the modern world.

The comments came from Mother Miriam of the Lamb of God, a Brooklyn-born convert who now runs a monastery in Oklahoma and hosts a regular religious podcast. In a recent episode, she took a listener’s question about extraterrestrials and steered it somewhere far darker than science fiction, framingUFO lore not as harmless curiosity but as a front in what she called a ‘great cosmic war.’

UFO Theories Pushed Into The Spiritual Realm
Mother Miriam did not hedge her words. Asked whether aliens were real or spiritual beings, she replied: ‘I think sooner look at the demonic side than the extraterrestrial.’ In her view, reported UFO phenomena are less about distant galaxies and more about a centuries‑old struggle between good and evil.

Drawing on St Thomas Aquinas, the medieval theologian who gave Catholicism much of its formal thinking on angels, she argued that the Church already believes in ‘extraterrestrial intelligence,’ just not in the way Hollywood imagines. Angels, she said, are ‘from another world, the spiritual world,’ and so count as true non‑human intelligences.

‘The Catholic position, there is such a thing as extraterrestrial intelligence,’ she told listeners. ‘These creatures really are from another world, the spiritual world. They’re what we call angels.’

The leap to UFO narratives is straightforward in her mind. Angelic beings can appear, influence and mislead. If some are obedient to God, others have fallen away and now act, she contends, as ‘ministers of deception and destruction.’

The Vatican itself has no official teaching on whether flesh‑and‑blood aliens exist on other planets. Mother Miriam openly acknowledged that fact, but insisted the spiritual reality is ‘considerably more disturbing’ than any benign civilisation visiting in peace.

A Cosmic War Behind Every UFO Obsession
In a YouTube video expanding on her remarks, Mother Miriam sketched a universe locked in supernatural conflict and suggested that UFO fascination is not neutral entertainment, but an intentional distraction.

She claimed these spiritual entities ‘do all they can to deceive human beings and draw them into a belief system without God, without faith, and without the necessary graces for their salvation’. If they can keep people ‘wrapped up in theories of alien visitations and extraterrestrial visitors to Earth,’ or absorbed by paranormal phenomena, she argued, they will have ‘succeeded in their diabolical mission to deceive and to destroy.’

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