Christian congressman claims 'clandestine' force of 'good actors' investigating UFOs

By Jon Brown, Christian Post Reporter Monday, July 06, 2026

A Christian member of Congress claimed during an interview last week that there are "clandestine" forces of "good actors" investigating UFO phenomena, and offered further details about his participation in a widely reported meeting of Charismatic pastors about the topic earlier this year.

Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., who serves on the U.S. House Oversight subcommittee investigating unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs), was asked during a two-hour interview with "American Alchemy" podcaster Jesse Michels about the meeting, which reportedly took place at an Airbnb in Tennessee.

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The meeting drew widespread attention when some of the pastors claimed in May that they had been told by U.S. government officials to prepare their congregations for the theological implications of extraterrestrial disclosure.

Burlison told Michels that the uproar over the meeting proved to be "an interesting side part of this whole journey."

"It seems like every time you have this conversation about UFOs and UAPs, it always kind of brings up the the question of spirituality, or, 'Are these angels?' ... Some people say they're all demons, that kind of thing. But it inevitably always comes up," he said.

Burlison went on to claim there is a "very clandestine" group of people made up of "former special forces, former military intelligence, and are working for somebody in the private who has given them the ability to investigate this as a side task."

"That's my best guess, because you'll never get out of them who they really work for," he continued, adding that one of them "bumped" him in Washington, D.C., to tell him that he is also a Christian and that he should be cautious regarding whom he trusts about the issue.

He said the group seemingly has a contract to investigate a broader topic that includes UAPs, but might also encompass drone incursions into the U.S., human trafficking and other things.

Burlison said one of the individuals he was speaking to is a chaplain, and that he told him "the Church needs to be prepared" for the possibility of extraterrestrial life, and that too many Christians are "going off on very wild tangents" about the issue.

He said he was later invited to call in to a group of pastors with supposed connections to the clandestine group to offer his opinion that potential extraterrestrial disclosure should not "shake the worldview" of any Christian, and that the idea of a vast universe with intelligent life does not contradict the Bible.

Larry Ragland, senior pastor of Solid Rock Church in Birmingham, Alabama, suggested in a viral clip that Burlison had called in to the meeting to claim that extraterrestrials are demons and that the government is planning to claim aliens created humans to subvert Christianity. Burlison issued a statement pushing back against his claims.

Ragland subsequently apologized, clarifying that he conflated his own opinions with those of Burlison.

Burlison told Michels that the Charismatic pastors put "words in his mouth" by claiming he asserted all aliens are demons.

"I'm not going to jump to that kind of conclusion," he said.

During the wide-ranging interview with Michels, Burlison also made various claims that included reports from military personnel about their encounters with bizarre UAPs, especially around nuclear sites, including an account of a "blacker-than-black sphere" in the western U.S. that gave off a "sense of just complete evil and darkness."

Burlison also claimed President Donald Trump has been briefed about the potential existence of alien-human hybrids, to which Trump reportedly replied, "You mean like Adam Schiff?"