The view that the visitors are demons in disguise.
A long-standing Christian interpretation holds that UFO occupants are neither aliens nor misperceptions but demons, presenting themselves in modern dress to deceive. It was set out in evangelical books in the early 1970s and by the Orthodox monk Seraphim Rose in 1975, and it has resurfaced within the official disclosure movement since the late 2010s. It shares one move with Keel: both refuse to take the visitors' account of themselves at face value. Like Keel's umbrella, it cannot be tested.
This is a theological position within living Christian traditions. Approach it through those traditions; it is not a basis for diagnosing anyone else's experience.
Not a being to sit alongside the others. A framework that reframes the whole catalogue, a tradition that travelled in the opposite direction from the rest, or an intelligence people say they made rather than met.
Degree of embodiment: varies
Scale, 1 to 5
5 is an ordinary biological body. 4 is physical but manifests oddly. 3 comes and goes. 2 is energetic or subtle. 1 is consciousness with no persistent form. Note that this tends to fall as a tradition ages.
R: living religion
Source code
An element of a religion currently practised by large numbers of people, not a folklore curiosity, and handled here accordingly.
John Keel
1966–1975
Point Pleasant convinced him the phenomenon was neither extraterrestrial nor consistent. He proposed ultraterrestrials: intelligences that are local, deceptive about their own nature, and not reliably material.
Element of a living religion
Tradition-side
Held by very large numbers of people as religious truth rather than folklore. The appropriate approach is the tradition's own, through its own scholars and practitioners, not entity-collecting.
Deliberate contact work
Read this first
The hazard in this subject attaches to the method, not to which name you aim it at. Ouija work, invocation, sustained channelling, induced hypnagogia, deliberate sleep deprivation and hypnotic regression are the practices associated with difficulty, and a session aimed at a benevolent civilisation is not safer than one aimed at something considered lower. What raises risk is doing it alone, doing it repeatedly, doing it while sleep-deprived, and doing it with an existing vulnerability to psychosis, mania or dissociation. People who get into trouble here overwhelmingly got there through practice, not through reading.
Who should be careful
Practice-side
Anyone with a personal or family history of psychosis, bipolar disorder or dissociative conditions, anyone in acute crisis, and anyone isolated from people who would notice a change in them. Intensive contact practice is destabilising by design (that is what it is for), and destabilisation lands hardest on people already close to an edge.