{"id":83186,"date":"2026-05-31T09:02:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T13:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83186"},"modified":"2026-05-31T09:02:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T13:02:25","slug":"in-u-f-o-files-some-christians-see-vexing-questions-and-demons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/in-u-f-o-files-some-christians-see-vexing-questions-and-demons\/","title":{"rendered":"In U.F.O. Files, Some Christians See Vexing Questions \u2014 and Demons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>The New York Times:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">The dozen or so pastors and podcasters who arrived at the Airbnb in Nashville one night in February weren\u2019t sure exactly what they were in for. An organizer asked them to turn their phones on airplane mode. Snacks were served. Then, for at least two hours, two mysterious men presented a slide show laying out the evidence, as they saw it, for some kind of extraterrestrial life and the spiritual confusion that coming revelations could sow among Christians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">\u201cIt was the weirdest meeting I\u2019ve ever been a part of,\u201d said Alan DiDio, a pastor in North Carolina who attended. \u201cYou\u2019ve never seen that many Pentecostals in a room that quiet.\u201d\u00a0For many of the pastors in the room, and some other Christians, there\u2019s only one possible explanation for extraterrestrial beings: They are not neutral visitors from other planets or dimensions, but demonic entities.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1780218145\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"In U.F.O. Files, Some Christians See Vexing Questions \u2014 and Demons\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The New York Times: The dozen or so pastors and podcasters who arrived at the Airbnb in Nashville one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83187,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83186\/revisions\/83187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}