UFO Religions: Extraterrestrial Salvation and Modern Mythmaking

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UFO religions blend belief in extraterrestrial intelligence with spirituality, offering salvation through contact, telepathy, or channeling, and they emerged after World War II with George Adamski and the Aetherius Society founded by George King, expanding to Raëlian Movement, Heaven’s Gate, Unarius Academy of Science, Scientology, Vale do Amanhecer and Happy Science, sharing the view that advanced aliens created or influence humanity as benevolent teachers, reinterpreting myths as alien encounters, and practicing meditation, channeling, automatic writing and skywatching, often mixing technology with belief, attracting educated professionals who seek a modern myth to cope with crisis, while governments acknowledge UAPs and SETI advances push toward metaphysical interpretations amid ongoing leadership challenges.