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Pentagon Releases Third Batch of Declassified UAP Files
The Pentagon released 72 documents, images and recordings covering global UAP sightings. Vice President JD Vance and religion scholars discussed possible implications for faith.
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The Pentagon on Friday released a third batch of declassified UAP files containing 72 documents, images and recordings. The material covers sightings investigated around the world.
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President JD Vance addressed the topic in a recent podcast interview. A former exorcist with the Archdiocese of Washington said in a May 29 Facebook video that many UFO sightings are likely demons. The archbishop removed the former exorcist from his position last week, stating that his comments "gravely undermine" Catholic teaching on demons and the devil.
Baglow, who leads a science and religion initiative at the University of Notre Dame, said the church has never taken an official position on extraterrestrial life. "Theologians have been speculating about this for centuries and the church has never ever taught one way or the other," Baglow said.
Pope Leo XIV spoke of the "ancient light of distant galaxies" while meeting with astronomy students at the Vatican last year. Religion scholar Diana Walsh Pasulka at the University of North Carolina Wilmington said belief in UFOs has been positive for religion.
"Belief in UFOs is really one of the best things that's happened to religion in a long time," Pasulka said. "It's a blow to the secular, materialist worldview," she added.
