Gray Messiahs Or Reptilian Overlords?
Disclosure & The Mother Of All Paradigm Shifts
Recently, everytime I scroll through X, most of what I see is a combination of obviously fake AI to potentially real videos of UAP activity in the skies (and in the seas). It seems as if within the past 4 years, the idea of not being alone in this universe is front and center (for diversionary purposes as well as authentic ones). Current and former presidents are even discussing the issue. Are we close to a real alien disclosure event? And what could that mean, particularly for a follower of Jesus? I have some thoughts on it. Although some Christians may pass over entries like this one, I would encourage you to bear with this because I think there are very important principles even about the possibility of alien disclosure. Plus, those principles aren’t exclusively about space aliens—they are to be applied in any situation. But first, my own story.
Paradigm Shift
July 4, 1978 our family was on vacation in Colorado Springs. We had spent the day driving up Pikes' Peak, visiting the wax museum, and driving through the Garden of the Gods. We were exhausted. Well, my parents were exhausted. I was 11. My brother was 7. My sister was 5. We found a Holiday Inn for the night. It was one of those old fashioned motels with two stories and room access from the outside. My brother and I were standing outside on the balcony to watch the fireworks display. My sister was in between the hotel room where my parents were watching Johnny Carson, and being with us on the balcony. The fireworks display was over. But we didn’t go back inside because there was a strange object in the night sky. You really couldn’t make out its shape. But what you could see are lights going around it, sort of like the lights going around the bottom of the Goodyear Blimp, but with different colors. It moved funny, which is what really caught our attention. Then it started to move toward us at the hotel. It got close enough that it scared me. I ran in to tell my parents to come outside and see. They brushed me off and continued watching television. Well, apparently, while I was inside trying to cajole our parents, it moved even closer to the hotel. Only my brother was outside at that point. And he claimed he say beings inside it looking down on him and others on the balcony. When I came back out it had starting moving further away from us—but still close. Now everyone in the hotel was outside watching this thing, except my Mom and Dad. It made jerky moves, sort of the type you see a flashlight make on a wall when you jerk the flashlight around in your hand—it defied physics—then shot off instantaneously, disappearing in the night sky.
To this day, I will tell you there is more out there than we know or understand. But from that day forward, I just thought they were intelligent beings from an advanced planet who came to visit and observe us. After all, I was fed all the pop media stuff, like Project Blue Book, My Favorite Martian, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and several episodes of In Search Of…. To my mind, I witnessed a spaceship with aliens from another galaxy. My culture fed that to me and it informed what I saw that night.
It wasn’t until I was an adult, probably in my 30’s or 40’s, that I started to question those assumptions. What exactly did I see in 1978? Could it have been secret US military technology? After all, we were in the same town as Peterson Air Force Base, Schriever Air Force Base, and NORAD. But if it was military, where did they get the technology to be able to make a physical object break the laws of physics like that? I’ve seen nothing else like that in all my experience. Could there also be some weird spiritual aspect to these ‘aliens’? Some occult circles tend to include aliens in their worldview. Aleister Crowley believed aliens were actually interdimensional beings that entered our reality through a portal of some kind.1 Suddenly, what I thought I knew, which wasn’t much, I didn’t know anymore.
It used to be fringe who focused on UFOs and alien abductions, etc. But by 2022, US military personnel were testifying to what they saw. Congress held a hearing that summer hearing this testimony. Now ‘normal’ people you think are painfully objective and reasonable are talking about flying pills that dive in and out of the sea. You have former presidents, congressmen, secretaries of state all confirming what we suspected: we are not alone. There are craft that the military has worked to reverse engineer. Suddenly, this activity has become a race against China to crack the code first. Whoever cracks the code not only rules the world, but whatever else is out there. In June 2026, Stephen Spielberg is releasing his own film called Disclosure Day. Dan Farah released his noteworthy documentary called The Age of Disclosure in 2025. And the godfather of recent UAP lore, Bob Lazar, has even released a new documentary, The Bob Lazar Story.2 It appears that there may even be an official disclosure from The White House this year, albeit speculative. As Bill Maher stated in his show, Real Time, “if you still don’t believe in aliens, maybe you’re the conspiracy theorist.”
Let’s imagine there’s full disclosure and this is what we discover.
These are interdimensional beings that have always been with us, quietly observing and advising the top leaders since the dawn of humanity. Turns out they were the apkallu or sages of Mesopotamia. They were the gods of old who guided pharaohs, emperors, chieftains.
We are hybrids between their genetics and that of apes.
Also, all religions were part of their guidance, including Jesus Christ—that all religion, including Christianity, was meant to advance our survivability as a species and there was nothing else factual about the verities of faith outside of survivability. The return of Christ, the Mehdi, 12th imam, Kalki, or any other eschatological savior were really their creations for us, pointed to them, and now they are here, the new utopia we have always imagined (and was planted in our heads by them) can now be realized. No more wars. No more disease. No more poverty.
Let’s also say the follow up with this disclosure of their own technical, psychic, supernatural-like abilities. In this way, their testimony is confirmed.
What sort of human reaction follows from this? I think it’s important to provide our own place in history in context with the past.
Brief Excursion Into Ancient Near East Mythos (it may be relevant)
The Bible’s context, for the Old Testament particularly, is the Ancient Near East. Contrary to many strict literalist views of Scripture, the Bible’s content isn’t 100% unique. In fact, there’s quite a bit of cultural familiarity in the Old Testament in law, poetry, and culture. Psalm 74, for example, is almost verbatim from an older cuneiform text from Ugarit called The Baal Cycle. The only significant difference between The Baal Cycle and Psalm 74 is that instead of Baal, it is Yahweh who defeats Leviathan.
In Genesis 30 we have two examples of divination. The first example entails Leah giving mandrakes found by Reuben to Rachel in exchange for a night of lovemaking with Jacob. The mandrakes were considered as powerful in conception. The second entails Jacob peeling branches and laying them before livestock to produce offspring that would easily be identifiable as livestock Laban agreed to give Jacob. There’s also the ancient ritual of trial by ordeal in Numbers 5:11-31 where the determination of adultery with a wife entails taking dirt from the floor and having the accused drink it to see if she becomes sick or not. If she becomes sick, she’s guilty. This is similar to what you find in things like Hammurabi’s Code or other ancient texts.
A very important overlap in the Old Testament and Ancient Near East mythos has to do with an abrogation between the natural and supernatural realm, resulting in a great flood. Genesis 6:1-4 tells us of a period where supernatural beings violated their responsibilities and made a pact to take human women, procreate with them and create a race of supermen to rule the world. Although Genesis only speaks of it in those four verses, the echo of that goes all the way into the New Testament epistles. Jude, for example, states that angels had left their proper position of authority (τε ἀγγέλους μὴ τοὺς τηρήσαντας τὴν ἑαυτῶν ἀρχὴν) God has kept in eternal chains in gloomy darkness. You will find similar references in 1 Peter 3:19 and 2 Peter 2:4-5 where Peter actually uses the Greek word tartarosas (lemma ταρταρόω) which is the place where the defeated titans were imprisoned from the titanomachy (war of the titans). There is no other place to reference in the Old Testament for these New Testament passages except Genesis 6:1-4.
What exactly did the ancient world believe about this mixture of supernatural and human offspring? In ancient Sumerian texts, their is the tale of the flood where the god Ea tries to save humanity from the god Enlil (who wants them destroyed) by sending them supernatural mentors called apkallu. According to Sumerian texts, the apkallu came from the abyss and taught humanity government, war, magic, technology. The apkallu took human wives and created half-breed beings who were giants in size, strength, and appetite. Figures like Gilgamesh were examples. Because of the interbreeding, Enlil floods the world but Ea helps humanity survive it.3 And the apkallu continued consulting and teaching kings and priests, after the flood, to pass along the wisdom taught by the apkallu before the flood. The Akkadian Kings List reflects kings and apkallu before the flood as well as after the flood.
The results of this are apkallu who were imprisoned in the darkest recesses of existence while their offspring continued to pass along pre-flood wisdom to kings. The apkallu were not 100% supernatural after the flood but mixed. Eventually, they disappeared. Even in Egypt, where Pharaoh was considered the offspring of Ra has a parallel story to it. So do the Greeks and the Hittites.
So, this was the context of the Bible that produced Genesis 6:1-4. But there are some clear distinctions between the ancient Hebrew retelling of the flood and the apkallu from the rest of the Ancient Near East. Instead of the apkallu being heroes, the Bible portrays them as wicked. In fact, they are the reason why humanity became so wicked and violent in the first place. In the rest of the traditions, they were considered heroes and passers on of ancient wisdom. To the ancient Hebrew, this ancient wisdom is actually evil and includes things like necromancy, witchcraft, idolatry (worshipping the apkallu). In Hebrew, the original supernatural beings were called Watchers. Their offspring were called Nephilim and continued throughout most of the Old Testament.4
The Watchers were condemned and imprisoned in hell. They were to remain there until the Day of Judgment. In fact, passages like Revelation 9 reflect their release as God’s way of getting all the chess pieces on the board for judgment. So, to a 2nd Temple Period Jew, not only would this story be familiar, but they’d also expect their return just prior to the final judgment of God.
Possible Christian Responses to Disclosure
23 Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There he is!’ do not believe it. 24 For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect. 25 See, I have told you beforehand. 26 So, if they say to you, ‘Look, he is in the wilderness,’ do not go out. If they say, ‘Look, he is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it. 27 For as the lightning comes from the east and shines as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. 28 Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2025), Mt 24:23–28.
9 The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, 10 and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 Therefore God sends them a strong delusion (ἐνέργεια πλάνη), so that they may believe what is false, 12 in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2025), 2 Th 2:9–12.
8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. 9 As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2025), Ga 1:7–9.
Just from these passages, particularly Galatians 1, you can mark off Islam and Mormonism since the former denies the crucifixion of Jesus, among other things, and the latter invents an entirely systematic process of becoming deity, your own created order, and their deity. Islam claims to have been provided by the Angel Gabriel in the 7th century. Mormonism claims direct revelation by Joseph Smith as well as further revelation from the angel Moroni. Both religions require belief that the Tanakh (Old Testament law, prophets, writings) and New Testament have been corrupted. However, neither has any evidence of textual corruption, outside their views being incompatible with it.
But those two examples aren’t isolated. Particularly in the late 19th and early 20th century, there have been tons of alternative views of Jesus, salvation, heaven, hell, meaning, and purpose. The pop culture narratives developing around space aliens are no exception. When it comes to alien disclosure, I think many confessing Christians might comply. Perhaps, in those cases, their faith in Christ was actually faith in their political or cultural convictions, where Christ was leveraged for those greater convictions. Now that Christianity has been supposedly ‘disproven’, adaptation to a new worldview is easy.
Other Christians whose theology was more informed from the Reformation could be confronted with a crisis of faith. The Reformers mentioned nothing about any of this. Wesley didn’t either. The only things focused on by their faith were things like the ordo salutis, baptism, inerrancy of Scripture, based on their definition of inerrancy. Now, those categories have been engulfed in new ones that have no way to fit in the old worldview. Perhaps they deconstruct. Perhaps they just remain steadfast, despite everything. Without going into all strains of Christian traditions, similar outcomes might ensue with Catholics and Eastern Orthodox for the same reasons—which, like Reformed Protestants, is context driven.
However, if you actually use the Bible and its own context as a basis for trying to figure out the alien disclosure, much of what has been disclosed can find similarities from the biblical context. And where it is silent, thinking well can provide decent guidance, utilizing biblical principles. None of the disclosure will come too much of a surprise. Speaking of the sages of old, they were supernatural. But they weren’t heroes. They were wicked. The gods (with a small g) once reigned supreme over the nations and here they are, back again, ready to quicken our demise while pretending to be our saviors.
In fact, some of the details of the disclosure may end up informing more about what was meant in passages like Genesis 6:1-5, Genesis 11:1-9, Deuteronomy 32:8-9, Psalm 82, and Revelation 9. That’s because some won’t have a wooden, literal, and somewhat paranormal view of biblical inspiration where the writers were overtaken by the Spirit to ghost write God’s words. Instead, they will see the human writers were from their own time, geography, culture. They expressed what God inspired them to write about the best they could. Coming face to face with similar things they were familiar now make the text even clearer for them. Of course their descriptions of what they knew about these things would be different from our own.
There’s nothing in the disclosure that could rock them. Rather, it could confirm their faith. The only surprise will be how it confirms it. But life won’t be easy for them either. The new paradigm may be received with enthusiasm by many, even if there’s grave concerns among the faithful. That could place pressure and tough times. But their hope is that this disclosure isn’t the last. Those with the bag full of surprises are, themselves, about to be surprised, according to the established biblical eschaton.
Disclosure Isn’t A Defeater
There’s a couple of things to remember from a biblical standpoint. Not all of the host of heaven rebelled against Yahweh. The Watchers were a subset. There are, according to Scripture, hosts of heaven who remain loyal to Christ. So, any disclosure requires further thought before immediate skepticism. The author of Hebrews states that some humans have hosted angels unaware.
Why mention this? It’s important to think well about these topics. There are no reasons why disclosure should threaten Christian faith. There are some good points to be made about how alien disclosure or the possible existence of life on other planets (if that’s what these things actually are) are viewed by a follower of Jesus.
The Bible’s silence does not rule out aliens (and does not make Scripture errant). The source of the Bible is God. But the means of getting the Bible are through people. Those people are in their own particular geography, culture, understanding. In the ancient world, the stars were gods. They were never hot gas balls. If there turns out to be life on another planet, that neither rules out a Creator nor does it prove Scripture as irrelevant. It just means that the Creator did the same thing elsewhere.
No biblical texts describe physical space aliens. The Bible talks about humans and supernatural beings. Texts like Ezekiel 1, 2, 10 describe God’s throne, not a UFO. I have written specifically about this on The Cultural Refugee and encourage you to read it. So, the idea that you will find little green men in Scripture is baseless. Within the recent past, whether it was the occult or pop culture, there has been a desire to ‘find’ contemporary narratives in the Bible. In fact, the introduction to the old television show, Project Blue Book, talks about Ezekiel’s wheel as a UFO. However, a careful study of Ezekiel’s vision, as well as broader ideas about what we read in those passages, clearly rule out alien spacecraft.
Core Christian doctrines are unaffected. Particularly, the Christian doctrines of imago dei and the atonement are secure in the disclosure of space aliens. Genesis 1:26-28 reflect how God made humans. Could God have created aliens on another planet differently? Why couldn’t He? In terms of atonement, Jesus came to die for humanity. It is humanity that fell and required redemption from God. That doesn’t have a law-like assumption for any created intelligent life elsewhere. Could Jesus have died on other planets for other intelligent beings? Could there be other intelligent beings also created in the image and likeness of God? Why would that not be possible? And if we humans on earth are the only ones who were, that too shouldn’t wreck our faith in light of disclosure. There’s no defeater to Christianity concerning these larger questions, despite claims or concerns to the contrary.
Distinction between possible real ETs and the abduction/contactee phenomenon. Just as there are civilized people and wicked people, the same applies to supernatural beings, biblically, and would also make sense it pertains to space aliens. The idea of abductions have typically been associated with anti-Christian and anti-theistic messaging. Paul states that even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light in order to deceive. Thinking biblically—and thinking well in general—is indispensable when trying to distinguish between deception and reality. Abduction phenomenon may or may not have anything to do with the revelation of space aliens. It also might. Context and thinking well are required.
As a Christian, it’s really hard to imagine any disclosure that wouldn’t somehow be handled by considering those things above. I leave room for the small possibility that it might. Regardless, I do believe there are many Christians who may be concerned about these things. My point is to convey there are no good reasons to be concerned. Outside of that, thinking well and knowing the Bible the way it is instead of the way we think it is are two essential pursuits that are sure to protect one against deceit or defeat.
Crowley’s Amalantrah Working rituals were claimed by him to open portals to permit intelligent beings to enter our dimension. His 1919 sketch of what these entities looked like resembles what we would call “greys”.
Bob Lazar is an MIT educated physicist who was tagged to work in top secret S4 area of Los Alamos Meson Physics facility. He claimed to have been part of the effort to reverse engineer the physics behind crashed UFO technology and testifies that the spacecraft is able to appear to bend spacetime through the use of a stable isotope of element 115, called Moscovium. His credentials and testimony have been controversial, being refuted by several authorities. But the press has only brought Lazar out of anonymity over the past decade to provide his side of the story, which is compelling.
In fact, Enlil warns only one man of the coming judgment, Utnapishtim, who is the equivalent Noah character in the tale.
Most of the people groups in the conquest narratives in Numbers, Deuteronomy, and Joshua are Nephilim clans. Some human clans allied with them—even lived among them. In Deuteronomy 2 you discover that even Edom had its own giant clans, like the Zamzummim, who God aided in their defeat so the Edomites could dwell in those lands.