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When U.F.O.s Become Religion

A UFO in 1665: The Air Battle of Stralsund

The skies — and the government — could be hiding more than we know.

An interview with Diana Walsh Pasulka by Ross Douthat

Douthat: How did that pull you into studying people who claim to have had a U.F.O.-style encounter?

Pasulka: When I was doing my work for the book about the Catholic doctrine of Purgatory, that brought me to a lot of archives. I’d go into the archives — and archives are places where things aren’t digitized — and I started to look into how Catholics viewed how souls ascended into Heaven or Purgatory.

What I found was a lot of documents from 1,000 years ago, 800 or 500 years ago, about recorded sightings of aerial phenomena that Catholics had from Europe.

From an interview with Joe Rogan

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