As UFOs go mainstream, the jury is out on what the existence of alien life might mean for religion
- Steven Spielberg's UFO blockbuster "Disclosure Day" debuted on Friday, with investigative journalist Ross Coulthart exploring the film in a special "Road to Disclosure" edition of "Reality Check" airing Saturday on NewsNation.
- Public fascination with unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs, has shifted from fringe conspiracy to mainstream discussion as The Pentagon released large swaths of UFO files in May with minimal context.
- Religion scholar Diana Walsh Pasulka of the University of North Carolina Wilmington said belief in UFOs "is really one of the best things that's happened to religion in a long time." The Catholic Church remains open to extraterrestrial life.
- Former President Barack Obama visited the "Disclosure Day" set, posting on social media he saw no evidence of extraterrestrial contact during his presidency, while Vice President Vance and Rossetti described UFO sightings as "demons."
- Historian Jeffrey Kripal of Rice University notes modern UFO conceptions largely developed after 1945, as organized movements like Scientology now view extraterrestrials as part of a divine plan.
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As UFOs go mainstream, the jury is out on what alien life might mean for religion
LOS ANGELES (ABC NEWS) — In “Disclosure Day,” out Friday, Steven Spielberg is once again inviting audiences to ponder the existence of extraterrestrial life — and the implications it would have for religion on Earth. But Spielberg is hardly the only one making headlines of late about UFOs and the possibility of life on other planets. What was once considered fringe or conspiratorial has in recent months popped up everywhere from the White House …
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