What would happen if you stripped away religion and Christianity?

Editor's note: The Fellowship Foundation, often called "The Family," is a discreet Christian network founded in 1935 by Abraham Vereide and later led for decades by Douglas Coe (the "most powerful man you never heard of"). It operates through private prayer groups and relationship-building among influential figures, with participants over the years including members of the U.S. Congress, business leaders, diplomats, and military officials, and it long played a behind-the-scenes role in organizing the National Prayer Breakfast. Although some speculative claims have attempted to link this network to what is referred to as the Collins Elite (when the US government met the devil), a possible faction said to be interpreting UFOs/UAPs in religious or demonic terms. There is evidence supporting a possible connection, and the following partially republished article at The Unz Review on UFOs and "high strangeness" does not mention either the Fellowship Foundation (The Family) or the Collins Elite operating within Washington's power structure as the "theocratic surveillance state."
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The UFO Question: Demons and High Strangeness

By Adrian Soler | April 28, 2026 | 96 Comments

Demons Out! When I was a young boy, my family often enjoyed watching and laughing at televangelists — especially Ernest Angley, who would regularly cast out demons for us on TV. Suffice to say, demons were considered a humorous component to my slight evangelical upbringing, not something to be considered seriously. Chevy Chase captured the zaniness perfectly in Fletch Lives–The Preacher

J.D. Vance–Aliens are Demons

Tucker, too

Turns out, lots of quite well-known people, and several commenters on The Unz Review believe these UFOs are demons. I would like to take a stab at seriously looking at this possibility.

There is a version of the UAP problem that is safe to discuss in polite company. It involves military pilots seeing objects that outperform known aerospace technology, radar systems confirming what the pilots saw, and a government that has spent decades lying about its level of interest in the subject. This version has congressional hearings, credentialed witnesses, and the imprimatur of the New York Times. It is, in the vocabulary of the national security establishment, a technology problem — something unknown is operating in controlled airspace, and the responsible question is what it is and who built it. Being alarming without being embarrassing is a considerable advantage. Senators can engage with it. Defense contractors can orient toward it. Journalists can cover it without their editors pulling them aside for a quiet word.

What this does not engage with, and has structural reasons not to engage with, is the rest of the record. Not the cleaned-up remainder after the strange cases have been removed, but the strange cases themselves, which constitute a substantial portion of the total evidence and which have been documented by researchers whose credentials are not obviously inferior to those of the people testifying before Congress. The abduction literature alone represents decades of systematic investigation involving thousands of witnesses, conducted by a Harvard psychiatrist, a professional historian, and an artist turned investigator who between them produced a body of work that any honest accounting of the UAP record has to address. The cattle mutilation evidence involves law enforcement testimony, veterinary analysis, FBI investigations, and physical characteristics that remain unexplained after half a century of attempted explanations. The cluster phenomena — locations where multiple anomalous event types aggregate simultaneously and then apparently follow investigators home — have been documented by scientists with advanced degrees who did not begin their careers expecting to write those reports. None of this material sits comfortably in the technology problem category. All of it gets quietly moved to a different shelf.

The technology researchers set high strangeness aside because it makes their core argument harder to take seriously. The secrecy investigators set it aside because it makes their sources look unstable. The congressional witnesses set it aside because their lawyers told them to. Each is a rational decision given the relevant incentive structure, and the cumulative effect is a public conversation about UAP from which the most significant portion of the evidence has been systematically removed before the conversation begins. What remains is impressive enough. What was removed is the point.

The serious theological and metaphysical literature that addresses the nature and behavior of the phenomenon directly — rather than its propulsion systems — has not set the strange material aside. It has organized its entire analytical framework around it. This is not because theologians and Traditionalist philosophers are less rigorous than defense analysts. It is because they were asking a different question from the start, and the question they were asking turns out to fit the data considerably better. That is an uncomfortable conclusion for people who have spent careers on the technology problem. It is nonetheless the conclusion the evidence supports, or at minimum the conclusion that deserves to be tested rather than assumed away.

Before testing it, it is worth understanding why the phenomenon resists the cleaner explanations so persistently. For that, the essential figure is Jacques Vallée.

The astronomer and computer scientist Jacques Vallée was exactly the kind of person the ETH (Extra-Terrestrial Hypothesis) crowd should have wanted on their side. Working alongside J. Allen Hynek at Northwestern University in the 1960s, he applied rigorous data analysis to the sighting record — not as an enthusiast but as a scientist who noticed that the distribution of reports across time and geography followed patterns that warranted systematic study. He did not stay on their side.

The break came not from skepticism but from an excess of attention to the data. The more Vallée examined the record, the less it resembled what an extraterrestrial visitation program ought to look like. The numbers were wrong, for a start. In his 1969 work Passport to Magonia, he calculated that the reported frequency of close encounters, if taken at face value, implied a volume of craft and landings orders of magnitude beyond what any plausible interstellar expedition would require. An advanced civilization crossing light years of space to study humanity would not need to make hundreds of thousands of low-altitude passes over rural France. It would need to make considerably fewer. The ETH, Vallée concluded, was not explaining the data. It was being defeated by it.

What Vallée found when he looked further back was more unsettling than the numerical problem. The phenomenon had not begun in 1947 with Kenneth Arnold’s sighting over the Cascades. It had not begun with the foo fighters of the Second World War, or the mystery airships of the 1890s, or any other modern threshold. Consistent encounter reports — structured craft, non-human entities, missing time, physical effects on witnesses and surrounding terrain — ran continuously through the historical record as far back as documentation existed. Medieval accounts of fairy abductions matched the structure of modern abduction reports with a precision that was difficult to attribute to coincidence. The entities changed their costumes across centuries, presenting as angels, demons, fairy folk, and little grey men in sequence, always calibrated to the cultural expectations of the witnesses encountering them. Whatever was generating these experiences had been doing so for a very long time and was paying close attention to what human beings expected to see.

This led him to what he called the control system hypothesis — the proposition that the phenomenon functions not merely as visitation but as a mechanism operating on human belief, perception, and social development. The craft, the entities, the encounters are real. But their purpose may be less about physical reconnaissance than about psychological effect. The phenomenon introduces information — or the experience of information — into human culture at intervals and in forms calibrated to produce maximum impact on existing belief structures. It destabilizes rather than resolves. It produces witnesses who cannot explain what they saw, investigators who cannot explain what they found, and institutional responses that cannot explain why they are lying. Whether this constitutes intelligent management of human development by an external agency, or something stranger still, Vallée declined to specify.

Please go to The Unz Review to continue reading.

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Looking deeply into Cruz's past or current affiliations and connections, it will probably be discovered he is connected to "The Family" and the Fellowship Foundation:

Fox News host Mark Levin and US Senator Ted Cruz completely lose their minds on live TV.

Cruz launches an unhinged rant, projecting his party's extremism while Levin nods along.

These establishment hacks are terrified of losing power. Total psychological projection! pic.twitter.com/Lzy0VnAMCi

— Furkan Gözükara (@FurkanGozukara) May 2, 2026