Spirituality

Exorcist removed for suggesting that UFOs are demonic in nature

By T.K. Randall
June 5, 2026

Image: AI-generated (Midjourney) Authority figures in the United States interpreting UFOs as spiritual or even demonic in nature has become something of a phenomenon unto itself in recent months.

Political figures, including Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert and even Vice President JD Vance have all made comments linking UFOs to biblical entities.

Now, it turns out, it is not only politicians that have been making this connection.

This week, Cardinal Robert McElroy - the Catholic archbishop of Washington DC - announced that the archdiocese would be severing ties with a Washington-based nonprofit headed up by Monsignor Stephen Rossetti because he had been "linking UFOs to demonic presence" and because "the Center's recent use of social media gravely undermine[s] the Church's very precise teaching on the devil, demons and exorcism."Rossetti doesn't discount belief in alien life, although remains skeptical of it himself.

"Demons like to hide," he said recently. "They don't want us to know what they're doing because they're more effective when we don't realize it."

"They can kind of get into your head, you know, and manipulate things in the world to influence us to do evil. It's my personal belief that probably many if not most of these UFO sightings are in fact demons."

Exactly how widespread beliefs of this nature actually are in the US right now remains unclear.

Source: NBC News

Tags: Exorcist, UFO