Nick Pope, who led the Ministry of Defence's UFO desk between 1991 and 1994, has said the then chief of defence staff Lord Hill-Norton stopped investigating sightings after being influenced by a controversial priest.
There are also similar beliefs in the US government, he added, with politicians and officials frequently deferring to the Bible when the issue of UFOs, now officially known as UAP, arises.
'It's counter-intuitive that some official resistance to taking UAP seriously comes not from hard-nosed science-minded sceptics who think studying the subject is a waste of government time and money, but from a faction that believes UAP are real - but demonic,' said Mr Pope, speaking to Metro.co.uk.
'This stems in part from a biblical description of Satan as being "the prince of the power of the air" - a quotation from the book of Ephesians.'...<<<Read More>>>...