UAPs in the Mainstream: Religion, Science, and the Widening Public Conversation

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Interest in unidentified aerial phenomena has moved into mainstream culture, spurred by the Pentagon's May release of files and Barack Obama's acknowledgment that aliens are real, and it now shapes debates among theologians and scholars—Diana Walsh Pasulka, Monsignor Stephen Rossetti, Christopher Baglow, and Pope Leo XIV among them—about how extraterrestrial life would fit with faith and science, while movements like Scientology and Raëlism offer varying religious interpretations.