From: Kelly <kellymcg@attcanada.ca>
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 20:41:00 -0400
Fwd Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 11:56:23 -0400
Subject: Lights In The Sky: Satan's Great Modern Deception


[For those who don't know, the author of this article is a very
popular, and I would say influential charismatic Catholic
writer. I find his books fascinating because he chronicals his
life and weird experiences in detail and his eventual conversion
(back) to Catholiscm. I haven't read his books in years but they
are certain to be of interest to forteans. 'The Final Hour' is
one - I forget the other titles off hand. --Kelly]


http://www.spiritdaily.com/ufos.htm

LIGHTS IN THE SKY: SATAN'S GREAT MODERN DECEPTION

By Michael H. Brown

Since 1947, when a pilot named Kenneth Arnold spotted strange
objects near Mount Rainier, Washington, mankind has been
barraged by the reports: lights in the sky, "flying saucers,"
even alien abduction. It's no longer the stuff of the "lunatic
fringe." It's out there on the radio, in the mainstream
bookstores (where it now has its own section), and on network
shows. In 1997 the nation was transfixed by reports on CNN and
other news shows of inexplicable lights over Arizona.

In the coming days and weeks we'll be reporting aspects of this
phenomenon because it has now reached a dangerous level. As we
will show, there's a deeply spiritual aspect - an aspect that
figures into the signs of our times - to unidentified flying
objects, or UFOs. Some of them may be hallucination; some of the
reports may be satellites; and for all we know, there may be
life on other planets. We're not ruling out any of those
possibilities - not even the chance that in cases like a strange
crash at Roswell, New Mexico (which also occurred in 1947),
reports of UFOs may be caused by the sighting of secret Air
Force craft.  Indeed, many of the reports come from the vicinity
of military bases.

But there is a spiritual aspect here - a demonic deception - and
it is as old as humanity.

You can go back to Cro-Magnon times and see caves painted with
what look like otherworldly creatures and when you study them
they begin to look like modern "ETs." In Sumerian, Babylonian,
and Egyptian times was the belief in "gods" that were half
human/half beast, bred with humans, and came from the stars. On
the islands of Cyclades to the east of the Greek mainland is a
statue of a goddess from 2500 B.C. that bears remarkable
resemblance to wide-eyed "UFO" aliens. In 1500 B.C. Pharaoh
Thutmose III saw silent, "foul-smelling" discs in the sky. The
same was indicated in South America - where Indians likewise
built pyramids thought to have occult powers. In Noah's time
aliens were called Nephilim (Genesis 6:4) and immediately
preceded the Flood.

They are as old as time itself and have the purpose of
corrupting mankind. In our modern age, we are told that they are
"legion" (Mark 5:9). In April of 1984 the National UFO Reporting
Center in Seattle recorded four sightings for the month. By 1996
the same month of April had 83 sightings. And last month - March
2001 - there were 238.

Although some of this is due to the internet and better
reporting - and although we see just recently news that a UFO
group disbanded in England for lack of sightings - from all
indications the cases worldwide have continued to skyrocket.
They are running parallel to societal evil as well as with signs
in nature and they were foreseen at LaSalette, France, in 1846 -
where the Virgin Mary allegedly told two shepherd children that
a time would come when "the demons of the air together with the
anti-Christ will perform great wonders on earth and in the
atmosphere, and men will become more and more perverted."

Whether or not we are in the final age of anti-Christ, we are in
a very special time in which all manifestations of the
supernatural are reaching a crescendo and we need to remember
that as superintelligences demons are supremely deceptive. Just
as they once masqueraded as gods or nature spirits and then as
elves and fairies, so do they come in our own time as "spacemen"
in accordance with current culture.

It is how they best deceive us. They are now loveable ETs
acclimating us to their presence. And in olden times many of the
people - adherents of the faith - were wise enough to see it.
Charlemagne, who coalesced Christianity in Europe - and defeated
the barbarians - was severely injured when a large sphere
descended from the sky like lightning and caused his horse to
rear up. During his reign there were so many "tyrants of the
air, and their aerial ships," as he put it, that he declared
them "evil." During the High Middle Ages, around the time of the
bubonic plague, in the 1300s, there was an eruption similar to
that of our own age. Eerie fireballs were seen above Paris,
Florence, and Avignon, France - where the papal palace had
moved. In some locales the plague was even said to descend like
a ball of fire. "One such ball was fortunately spotted while
hovering above Vienna and exorcised by a passing bishop," wrote
an historian named Philip Ziegler. "It fell harmlessly to the
ground and a stone effigy of the Madonna was raised to
commemorate this unique victory."

It's no coincidence that art of this period shows the air full
of devils pointing plague-tipped arrows nor is it a coincidence
that during this time there had been eruption of materialism,
sensuality, Church corruption, and witchcraft - which now also
haunt our age.

In Kilkenny, Ireland, a friar named John Clyn sensed "the whole
world, as it were, placed within the grasp of the Evil One."

Our mission - the mission of Christians everywhere - is to
prevent this from happening again, and we must know the enemy to
defeat him. We caution that no one should delve into UFO books,
radio shows, or websites. Curiosity can kill the cat. Most such
sites have an occult energy, and some are outright satanic. It's
no happenstance that ufologists and New Agers go hand-in-hand.
They come from the same source, and the fact that Satan is
deceiving us with lights in the sky is obvious when we look at
certain details. For example: UFO outbreaks and repeated
sightings often occur over land where Indians performed rituals,
or where modern witches have their woodland covens. This has
been seen in places like Upstate New York (on a Tuscurora
reservation near Niagara Falls, and near the Taconic Parkway
north of New York City); at the Allagash watershed in northern
Maine (where a so-called "abduction" occurred); Crestone,
Colorado (where a New Age center now stands and where strange
creatures have been reported since Indian times, including 'ant"
people);  and Arizona - where, in areas like Phoenix, there is
not only a history of ritual but massive burial mounds.

This is hardly to say that all the spirituality of Indians was
evil. It's to say that the pagan aspect was in error. If you
want to know what a demon looks like, recall the creatures in
Star Wars (or the faces on some totem poles) and you'll get a
fairly good idea.

Those who claim to have "close encounters" often find the
experience terrifying. Afterward they report psychic phenomena -
including ESP, precognition, and levitation, which indicate the
preternatural nature of it - and also a sulfur smell, which
since time immemorial has been associated with the demonic.

Aliens are often said to materialize and dematerialize, to even
walk through walls, and so we have more evidence of their
spiritual nature. If we believe such reports - if there is any
credibility to such things - we must ask ourselves why a
"spaceman" who can walk through walls and teleport would need a
flying saucer.

As one expert, Guy Malone of Roswell, New Mexico (whose ministry
is called "Alien Resistance") points out, aliens not only look
demonic but in certain cases have fled when the name of Jesus is
invoked.

Why would an extraterrestrial - if it was really an
extraterrestrial - run from the name of God?

And why would an alien be created in such an ugly, frightening
form?

Why do people wake up to find such creatures in a circle with
their hands raised over the person?

Why do they cause nightmares?

And why do they return day after day and night after night for
years - even haunting generations?

Why is it that we read reports of people who have had these
experiences only after dabbling with the occult, and why do
"abductees" need deliverance afterward?

Why are "crop circles," thought to come from UFOs (and most
prevalent in England), often formed into what look like occult
or ancient Egyptian or masonic symbols?

The descriptions of aliens connect to past artwork of demons
(including old voodoo statues) and are anything but an image of
God. This should be enough to raise our spiritual antennae. But
as we will report in coming
articles, there is more...much more... stay tuned...