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epidemic, generating it in order to eliminate
“undesirable traits”—by which Creighton makes
clear he means homosexuality—and “to keep their
cattle normal and healthy” (Creighton 1989, 12).
In 1990 he warned that demonic entities were
about to engineer a third world war for their own
inscrutable but nefarious purposes.
Though many ufologists see Creighton’s views
as extreme and not worth taking seriously, one
prominent American abduction investigator, Ann
Druffel, not only endorses them but draws on
them in her counseling of abductees. Convinced
that Creighton’s jinn “hypothesis” is a “logical...
answer [to] all the puzzles abducting entities
pose,” Druffel, a conservative Roman Catholic,
proposes techniques of resistance in which prayer
figures prominently. The gray aliens often associated
with abduction stories “are not a new
phenomenon,” Druffel writes. “They are an order
of creation with the ability to shape-shift and
harass human victims for their own playful or
malicious motives. They have appeared in various
types of garb throughout the centuries” (Druffel
1998, 182). She urges persons suffering alien
harassment to call on “angels, saints, and other
spiritual personages” who “are available to human
beings.” The archangel St. Michael, she says, is a
particularly effective banisher of demonic UFO
entities.
Mainstream Christian denominations have
paid relatively little attention to the UFO phenomenon,
but some fundamentalist writers have seen
UFOs and their occupants as fallen angels—
demons, in other words. Besides the inevitable
scriptural citations, they cite secular theorists,
especially John Keel, as authority for such conclusions.
Evangelical writer Clifford Wilson expresses
sentiments that could easily have been stated by
Keel or Creighton: “[A] great pattern of brainwashing
is taking place. Are men and women
being influenced, even ‘possessed,’ so that when
the signal is given they will be ready to give total
allegiance to these beings who will then show
themselves as their masters Is this why there is
such greatly increased activity in UFOs, and Ouija
boards, Satan worship, séances, and all sorts of
dabblings that even a generation ago were
regarded as foolish and evil” (Wilson 1974,
213–214). Like Keel and Creighton, evangelicals
accept as accounts of actual events fantastic stories
of interactions with space people that many ufologists
reject as conscious fabrications or as
psychological episodes. For example, Kelly L.
Segraves is convinced that channeling entities such
as the ubiquitous Ashtar, widely revered in
contactee circles as the head of a vast space
command here to transform human consciousness,
are quite real, serving—beneath their benevolent
exteriors—the Antichrist. Their true
purpose is the “massing [of] all of their forces in a
great deception to lead as many as possible away
from the true God. These fallen angels are therefore
appearing unto man in the guise of visitors
from other planets” (Segraves 1975, 179).
Some evangelicals interpret the coming of
UFOs with prophesied signs of the endtimes,
while others believe them to be just one more
manifestation of Satan’s continuing malignant
interference in human affairs. Among advocates of
the former is a website devoted to the subject.
Taking note of abduction stories in which
witnesses claim sexual contact with aliens, apparently
to create hybrid beings, it declares that UFOs
and their occupants are “under the authority of
the Prince of the Power of the Air, Prince of the
Aerial Host, Lord of those that fly [—] Satan. Jesus
warned that one of the signs of the end times was
that it would be ‘just as it was in the times of
Noah.’ In Genesis we see the account of nonhuman
intelligent beings ‘breeding’ with humans,
creating hybrids and contributing to the proliferation
of evil against God. The messages we see from
contact with extraterrestrials and other advanced
beings contain claims that they are the ones who
created us, through genetic manipulation” (“UFOs,
Aliens” n.d.; original italics).
—Jerome Clark
See also Demons
For Further Reading:
Alnor, William M. UFOs in the New Age:
Extraterrestrial Messages and the Truth of
Scripture. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book
House. 1992.
Creighton, Gordon. “AIDS.” Flying Saucer Review
34, no.1 (March 1989): 12.
Druffel, Ann. How to Defend Yourself Against Alien
Abduction. New York: Three Rivers Press. 1998.