A Catholic priest and exorcist who has encountered demons first-hand has revealed a chilling experience that led him to believe UFOs are actually the work of the devil.
Father Carlos Martins, an Ontario-born priest who has performed exorcisms around the world, believes the UFO phenomenon is part of a larger spiritual deception designed to undermine Christianity and cast doubt on the Bible.
The priest said a longtime friend who later converted to Christianity once witnessed a gigantic spacecraft hovering silently over a suburban park before it shot away ‘instantly to the speed of a bullet.’
The object was allegedly so enormous that the two witnesses could see details on its surface and estimated it stretched across ‘many football fields in size.’ Yet despite the extraordinary sighting, no one else in the town appeared to notice the object, and there were no local news reports about the alleged encounter.
Years later, after converting to Christianity, Martins’ friend came to believe the vision had not been an alien craft at all, but a supernatural illusion sent by the devil.
Speaking to the Daily Mail, Martins said Satan could use belief in extraterrestrial civilizations to create ‘a competing account’ to Christian scripture and weaken belief in divine revelation.
He also claimed modern UFO encounters, particularly alien abduction stories, often mirror the psychological and physical torment seen during cases of alleged demonic possession.
‘If the devil brings it about, he can put it into the human imagination that there is extraterrestrial life, that there are civilizations out there, then he can cause doubt in the Scriptures,’ Martin said.
Father Carlos Martins has encountered the Devil and his minions in many forms
‘What he’s done then is set up a competing account to the Christian scriptures, something the Judeo-Christian scriptures cannot account for, and so there’s an indirect repudiation of the truth of revelation. He’s accomplished that.’
The idea that UFOs may have demonic origins has gained traction in some conservative religious circles in recent years.
Vice President J D Vance said on a podcast in March: ‘I don’t think they’re aliens, I think they’re demons.’
Martins converted from atheism to Christianity while studying as an undergraduate and says one of his closest friends experienced an encounter that radically shaped his understanding of UFOs.
The priest recalled: ‘I have a good friend who is a convert. He converted to the Christian faith in his late teens or early 20s. We grew up in the same hometown.
‘[My friend] was walking with another friend on a weeknight along a trail in a suburb that ran between two homes and opened into a large park.
‘They looked up into the sky and saw this enormously large spaceship. It was immensely large, many football fields in size.’
The two men allegedly watched the giant craft hovering silently overhead and were close enough to make out details on its surface.
Father Carlos Martins, an Ontario-born priest who has performed exorcisms around the world, believes the UFO phenomenon is part of a larger spiritual deception designed to undermine Christianity and cast doubt on the Bible (stock)
Martins said: ‘They look at one another, and then they look back at the ship, and it would have been less than a minute.
‘All of a sudden, it takes off with a speed that’s just unfathomable, instantly to the speed of a bullet. So it just shot out of the sky. There wasn’t an acceleration, it was just instant darting away.’
According to Martins, the most disturbing aspect of the encounter was that nobody else seemed to have witnessed the gigantic craft.
There were no reports in local newspapers, no emergency calls and no indication anyone else in town had seen the alleged spacecraft.
For years, his friend struggled to understand the experience until later converting to Christianity.
‘My friend, when he converted, or after he converted, we talked about this again, Martins said.
‘I remember a couple of times, and I said to him, “Look, what do you think that was?” He said, “No question. It was the devil.”‘
‘He said, “If I were to buy into this concept, then of their being ET life, then it would cast a doubt on the Christian account of what exists in the universe of God’s plan for it.”‘
He said reports involving UFOs and alien encounters have increasingly appeared alongside exorcism cases during the last decade.
‘There’s definitely been a rise, I would say, in the last 10 years of integration of UFO and extraterrestrial, alien life stuff and exorcism,’ Martins explained.
‘I wouldn’t say that it’s common, but I would say it’s definitely on the rise.’
Above, a still from a video released in the Trump administration’s disclosure appears to show a glowing object resembling an ‘eight-pointed star’ with uneven arms moving across the sky, which almost seemed to shape-shift in mid-air
Martins believes many UFO sightings are elaborate illusions created to deceive human senses.
‘The senses can be deceived. Fake sense experience can be produced. That’s the point,’ he said. ‘So an illusion, a mirage, which I’ve seen many times.’
The priest said he witnessed this phenomenon firsthand while performing an exorcism on a firefighter he believed was possessed.
Martins said he secretly flicked a tiny amount of holy water onto the man’s clothing while walking behind him.
According to Martins, the man suddenly reacted violently.
‘He shot up out of his chair and started hissing, and his teeth seemed to grow some two inches, like there were fangs at that moment,’ Martins said. ‘For a split second, the fangs were protruding from his mouth.’
Martins believes the apparent transformation was not physically real, but rather a visual illusion generated by demonic forces.
‘The devil is perfectly capable of bending light. He’s perfectly capable of causing a mirage and illusion,’ the priest said. ‘I mean, he is by far the greatest magician, the greatest sleight of hand performer that has ever existed.’
The priest also argued that alleged alien abductions closely resemble accounts of demonic oppression and possession.
‘When you read accounts of abductions of people that have been allegedly abducted, very similar to ones that are demonically tortured,’ Martins said. ‘There are large gaps in memory.’
He added: ‘The phenomenon, the experience of the victim, is kind of always the same. Across the board, there’s an abuse of the body, an abuse of the person.’
Martins believes modern fascination with extraterrestrials emerged during the Space Age and gradually replaced older supernatural folklore.
‘This is the modern-day folk account of leprechauns, tooth fairies and pixies,’ he said. ‘It was only when we entered the Space Age.
‘Then the view of man changed, and that became kind of the new realm, the blank slate by which the devil could approve and kind of begin to dictate a new story.’
