Diana Pasulka Says Pentagon Believes Various UFOs Are Angels, Demons, and ETs

In a new interview with El País to promote the release of the Spanish edition of her 2019 book American Cosmic, Diana Walsh Pasulka described the culture surrounding UFOs as an incipient religion and compared it to the earlier believers in Christianity. To be completely honest, there’s not a lot to disagree with in her interview, which tended to avoid any of the more controversial ideas Pasulka has espoused and steered clear of her worshipful praise of her favorite ufologists. Instead, she made rather basic observations about ufology essentially being a faith in things unseen and how many interpret UFOs through their own spiritual lenses. She related a story of a Baptist UFO witness who had to change churches because he insisted the flying saucer was an angel while his church disagreed and alleged it was a demon.

​The most interesting part of the interview, though, was her suggestion—which I don’t recall seeing before—that the same people who believe aliens are angels and demons also believe that there are extraterrestrial visitors.

In the United States government right now, there are many people who believe in UFOs, in UAPs. That’s a fact. They use taxpayer money to study it. But they have different interpretations. There is, incidentally, a high percentage of devout Catholics in the military who study this.
 
They believe there are probably a variety of phenomena. Some they would categorize as being caused by angels and demons. And then there are some they believe are a threat, from an unknown extraterrestrial civilization. They only know they’re here, and they treat them as a threat because they’re military personnel: if something is in their airspace, they want to know what it is.

​It does not comfort me to think that there are military personnel imagining that we live in a Lovecraftian cosmos with gods (angels), demons, and extraterrestrials all regularly whizzing through our skies. Most of the other accounts I have seen, such as the accounts of the claimed “Collins Elite,” suggested that the Pentagon employees who interpreted UFOs as spiritual were not the same people who claimed they were extraterrestrial and that those two factions were at odds with one another.
 
I wish El País had drilled into this a bit more to better understand to what extent the Pentagon’s UFO researchers have concocted an elaborate cosmos of gods and monsters vs. various factions of researchers favoring their own particular faith.