The following is a guest article contributed by Derrick Warfel, author of the new book UFOs and God: Revealing Deception and Truth Behind the Supernatural, Invisible War, as well as the creator of the UFOs and God documentary.

All throughout history, every culture and every religion have recognized that humans have shared the earth with supernatural beings that are not subject to the same laws of physics that we are. Is it really a big surprise to say “we are not alone in this universe?” Haven’t we known that all along?

However, scientists today say that only a physical material universe exists, therefore any notion of supernatural beings are simply old superstitions that must be discarded in a modern age. Lightning bolts are not caused by Thor throwing lightning but by different electrically charged particles in clouds overcoming resistance and discharging.

Since supernatural beings cannot exist according to modern scientists, UFOs and space aliens must be physical beings from another planetary system or galaxy and must have been traveling to earth for thousands of years. But is that what they really are: physical beings from another planet or galaxy- our “space brothers” here to enlighten us?

Why UFOs cannot be physical

Astrophysicists at Reasons to Believe debunked this current media narrative that these UFO beings are intergalactic travelers with three simple facts:

1. The planet Earth is completely unique in all the universe to support advanced intelligent life. The Earth seems to be specifically designed for physical human life.

2. The distances between planets and galaxies in a 100-billion-light-year-wide universe are too great for physical beings to travel to and from earth in any reasonable amount of time.

3. The odds against life evolving strictly by time and chance collisions of elements is too extreme for it ever to happen once, let alone two or multiple times in a universe only 14 billion years old 100 billion light years wide.

The spectacularly unique Conditions for life on earth

The conditions for advanced intelligent life to exist on earth are too finely tuned by at least fourteen exact constants that if varied even fractionally would make advanced life impossible here. For example, the tilt of the earth, the earth moon tides system, the magnetic field which repels cosmic radiation, the level of gravity of the earth, the exact mix of the of the gases in the atmosphere, the existence of the uniqueness of the asteroid belt, and so on.

All of these are precisely configured. Any slight variation in any direction would make advanced life impossible. No other planet meets these precise conditions. And there are likely more than the fourteen we’ve mentioned or discovered yet.

In the 1960’s, astrophysicist Dr. Frank Drake indiscreetly predicted there must be billions of planets an appropriate distance from the star they circled to allow water to be on the surface. And since water is necessary for carbon-based life like us, there must be billions of planets like Earth that can support life like us.

Dr. Drake can be forgiven because there are so many unique conditions other than liquid water on a planet that we didn’t know about in the early 1960’s. However, the other scientists today who still quote Drake and his equation cannot be forgiven because they should know better.

The Incomprehensibly Vast Distance of our Universe

The distances between planetary systems are just too great for aliens to travel to and fro from earth on a regular basis. Distances in space are measured in light years, the distance light travels (at 186,000 miles a second) in a year- about 6 trillion miles.

The closest star is Alpha Centauri, 4.3 light years away, or about 25 trillion miles from earth. And by physics it would take too much energy to propel a craft at the speed of light. And even if we could travel at 1/10 the speed of light, the space dust would tear any craft apart. And if you took more time, like Voyager One traveling at 38,000 miles an hour, it would take 75,000 years to reach Alpha Centauri, and 75,000 years to travel back.

But wait- didn’t Star Trek say the Starship Enterprise could travel at WARP 9 (or nine times the speed of light)? That is Hollywood fiction, not a possibility. Einstein proved that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light.

And even the speed of light is too slow. It even takes 150,000 years for a radio signal to get across our own galaxy, the Milky Way. The universe is 100 BILLION light years wide. Even if another planet like ours existed, we would probably never even find out about it.

The bleak odds of the spontaneous creation of life

Then there is the impossibility of even simple life occurring by time and random chance by collisions of elements, even in a universe 14 Billion years old.

Mathematicians have been tapping evolutionary biologists on the shoulder for decades and saying, “Hey guys, the numbers on this evolutionary theory don’t pencil out.”

At Reasons to Believe, they calculated the odds of getting even a simple bacterium by collisions of elements by chance at 10⁵⁵⁶ to one. That is 10- followed by 556 zeros- to one.

For comparison, you could win the California state lottery with odds of only 10 to the ninth power to one. What a bargain! And that’s just a simple bacterium, not advanced intelligent life. And it would have to happen multiple times for beings on other planets to contact each other.

The Wrong Assumption

So life by chance is impossible. And another planet like earth that could support intelligent life is statistically impossible. And the distances to connect life in other parts of the universe are too great for them ever to connect by travel to each other. So what is going on?

Well, this gets back to the first wrong assumption that some of today’s scientists have made: Only the physical material universe is what exists; there is no spiritual or supernatural or extradimensional world

This is an assumption, not a proven fact. But they have to maintain it because if they didn’t, it would open the door to “horrors”: the existence of a Creator God and supernatural interdimensional beings like angels that He created. These would be beings that can travel between a parallel universe separated by dimensions.

These are things that every culture has recognized throughout all human history. Traveling interdimensionally could happen in the blink of an eye and not be limited by the laws of physics as we know them. And these interdimensional beings are not bound by the limits of three-dimensional space and one-dimensional time.

Even one of the most prominent UFO investigators, Jacques Vallee, has admitted they are likely interdimensional beings, but they want us to believe they are intergalactic travelers. Hmmm- why?

Maybe these cultures throughout all human history know something that our scientists today don’t know when they throw the spiritual baby out with the mythical bath water. Yes, we don’t want to go back to ancient superstitions, but we don’t want to eliminate the possibility of the supernatural or the paranormal simply as an a priori assumption. That would be very unscientific to cavalierly dismiss evidence like that.

Science is a technology for testing hypotheses; it is not a religion. But modern scientists have made it into a religion. It even has a name: scientism. They have to deny the supernatural because then they have to make room for the possibility of a Creator that they may have to bow before.

An Alternative Explanation

But if UFOs and “aliens” are not intergalactic travelers, why do we have to assume they are angels? The scientific method does well in validating tests that can be performed in exact repeated conditions in a laboratory, but supernatural events don’t cooperate like that. Neither do most all historical events.

But we don’t write off all of history because it cannot be repeated in a laboratory test tube under exact conditions. Most of knowledge does not comes from exact repeatable events in strict laboratory conditions but by observation of events in time and space. We could never be able to convict almost anyone in a court of law if repeating the crime exactly was the standard.

However, when historical observations of these supernatural or paranormal events can be gathered, studied, validated, and correlated, then we can see if there is a pattern. Do we have that? Absolutely. The Bible gives us many such events, and even those events continue today. And there are testimonies of events from other cultures that can be validated and studied as well. And there are many reliable testimonies of events even today of contact with UFOs and space aliens that also can be studied. Our book UFOs and God lists many of them.

In UFOs and God, the book (released August 25, 2026) and the eponymous documentary (released September 11, 2026), we discuss many of these recorded events from Bible stories, and many from contemporary witnesses.

Biblical & Modern sightings of “Extraterrestrials”

For example, everyone knows of the shepherds on the hills during Christ’s birth who testified they saw empty skies, and then the skies filled with angels singing to God’s glory- and then empty skies again. In those instants, where did these angels come from? Where did they go to? The moon? Venus? Mars? Jupiter? Alpha Centauri? Or perhaps a parallel dimension right next to ours?

Or remember Jacob’s ladder? Jacob has a vision of angels descending to earth and then ascending to where? The moon? Mars? The Zeta Reticula star system? Or what about the angels that visited Abraham and Lot and Daniel? Where did they come from and disappear to?

For contemporary examples, UFOs and God gives several instances where humans were helped by people who appeared to be human, and then in an instant were gone. US military ships that tracked UFOs saw them reach speeds of 40,000 miles per hour to 200,000 miles per hour- and then they seemed to disappear into thin air. Huh? Did they go to a different dimension? This is hard for us to conceive of because we have never crossed into higher dimensions and back. We aren’t angels. But perhaps angels who exist in say, six dimensions, can enter three-dimensional space and then return to six-dimensional space.

Extradimensional Eden

Here’s a thought experiment. Where is the garden of Eden? The Bible says the Euphrates flowed out of Eden and became four rivers. This would seem to nail its location down geographically. The Bible also says God posted an angel at the entrance to the garden so humans could not return.

So why can’t we find it? We know where the Euphrates is- an actual river on Google maps- and we know where it begins- and we’ve never seen an angel guarding a garden entrance. Could it be right beside a physical location on earth but in another dimension? Could an angel be guarding the portal entrance to that dimension?

The origins of extradimensional life

OK, so maybe there are other dimensions that we can’t access and that these multidimensional beings can. How does that prove these are the holy angels and fallen angels the Bible talks about? Could they just be other interdimensional creatures?

The solution is to see how these beings define themselves. The Bible gives two simple tests to determine which are evil spirits and which are not: by what they say and by what they do. Translated to modern vernacular: if it looks like a duck, and walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck… maybe it’s a duck.

The Bible tells us that before God created humans, He created a very intelligent, very powerful supernatural species of beings to carry out His tasks: angelic spirits.

Job 38:4, 7 – Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?
…when the morning stars sang together
and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

But 1/3 of those beings rebelled again their Creator and have been at war with Him and His Holy angels and humans ever since.

Revelation 12:3-4 – ³ And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems. ⁴ His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth.

They don’t have the power to attack God directly, so they attack the Holy angels and human beings to hurt us (John 10:10) and to get us to follow them and not God. These deceptions have been playing out through all human history: ancient near-eastern gods, Egyptian gods, Arabic djinn, ghosts, poltergeists, almost all varieties of supernatural and paranormal incursions into the natural world, eg. the occult, the hidden things. The only new deception are these “flying saucers”. But if we can create spacecraft, why couldn’t these beings who are more intelligent than us create far superior spacecraft?

Testing the Aliens Spirits

And what do these UFO beings tell humans who have telepathically communicated with them? They deny there is a personal Creator God, saying there is only an impersonal god force. Since there is no person who can be sinned against, then there is no sin- and then there is no judgment, and then there is no need for a savior. Jesus becomes only an ascended guru, and the road to fulfillment is reincarnation.

It sounds almost exactly like new age religion. They deny almost all Christian teachings. And the apostle Paul says that even if an angel teaches another gospel, he is to be accursed (Galatians 1:8; also see contra reincarnation Hebrews 9:27).

I John 4:1-3 – Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. ² By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, ³ and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God.

In addition to teachings the opposite of Christianity, the actions of these beings define who they are. They lie a lot. They used to say they were from the moon. But as we learned more about the galaxy, they keep changing their home base to Venus, then Mars, then Jupiter, and recently the Zeta Reticula star system- somewhere beyond our ability to check out their claims.

Their behavior is also evil. They abduct people against their will and reportedly run painful experiments on them. They tell abductees they won’t hurt them; then they do. Our documentary and book give numerous examples.

People have lost their families, finances, and health. Even people who just have stopped to watch UFOs have had physical injuries. What kind of leader has his minions do those things and lie like that? I can suggest one: the father of lies, Satan. (John 8:44).

Note how this is the opposite of Steven Spielberg’s 2026 film Disclosure Day, which says we humans were the ones abusing the aliens and not the other way around. There are too many documented examples to name where these UFO aliens have tortured humans.

And how do humans communicate with these UFO aliens? Through occultic methods: ouija boards and transcendental meditation (an offshoot of Hinduism) and the like.

And how are those contactees released from the lock tight domination aliens have on them…? By calling on Jesus’ name to save them, just like in the exorcism of demonic spirits.

Even if they aren’t extradimensional evil angels, it would seem that we should steer far clear of them because they are speaking and acting like evil spirits.

Thank you to Derrick Warfel for this guest article. Check out a conversation we had about the UFO phenomenon on the Weird Stuff in the Bible podcast.