From my post here:
Coulthart mentions the reports, which have been circulating for years, that invoking Jesus stops a UFO encounter. He also mentions reports that invoking Mary stops the experiences. Vallee goes on to mention an episode in Saudi Arabia in which a man was showing signs of what would often be classified as possession and was thought to be possessed by a jinn. An Islamic holy man delivered the individual from his condition by reading from the Quaran....
The ability to stop a UFO experience (seeing a UFO in the sky, an abduction experience, or whatever) by invoking Jesus, invoking Mary, or some other such means is compatible with multiple views of UFOs. If UFOs are human paranormal activity (my view), then a wide variety of religious practices or other efforts could bring about a psychological change that would make an experience stop or reduce the amount of activity involved. Even if the individual producing the phenomena is a deceased human, he could be influenced by religious invocations, be intimidated by a living human who has some paranormal capabilities (like an exorcist or medium), and so on. Those kinds of factors could even be relevant to an interaction with an alien, for those who accept the alien hypothesis. We can reach some conclusions about alien psychology based on what we know, but we're largely ignorant about the subject. We don't know much about what an alien would respect, what he'd be intimidated by, what would cause him to be compassionate, and so forth. And just as Jesus can cast out demons, he can also cast out other evil spirits (e.g., deceased humans), psychological problems people are having, aliens, etc.
We need to be careful to not have a simplistic mindset that takes reports of UFO experiences ceasing when Jesus is invoked as proof that UFOs are demonic. Invoking Jesus can end a lot of things, not just demonic activity, and it seems that some UFO experiences have been brought to a stop by other means, not just by invoking Jesus.
And there's no reason to think that you can end every paranormal event that isn't of a good nature, every paranormal event that involves a demon, or some such thing by calling on Jesus (Mark 9:14-29, 2 Corinthians 12:7-10, etc.).
Here's the relevant part of Jonathan's book:
Druffel investigated more than two hundred alien abduction accounts and found numerous subjects had successfully resisted alleged abductions via a litany of methods: nine methods, to be precise. These include mental techniques (“mental struggle”), physical techniques (“physical struggle”), metaphysical techniques (such as mentally wrapping oneself in a sheet of “protective” white light), and calling out to religious figures such as Jesus Christ or the Blessed Virgin Mary. (The Metaphysics Of UFOs [Woodbury, Minnesota: Llewellyn Publications, 2026], approximate Kindle location 1982)
Druffel's book tells us:
Many UFO abduction victims believe in some religion. Appeal to Spiritual Personages connected with their religion is commonly reported both by experiencers who were fully awake and by those who were already paralyzed. This technique requires firm faith in a spiritual realm peopled by compassionate and caring forms of otherworldly life. One of the main advantages of it is that experiencers do not have to be fearless to use this technique, nor do they need a strong sense of themselves as Persons with Rights. Nor do they need metaphysical training. They only need strong faith in a spiritual realm. Christ, Mohammed, the Lord God, guardian angels, the Archangel Michael, and other spiritual personages in which the experiencer has faith have been appealed to successfully. Religious artifacts also seem effective, provided the witness has faith that they hold some form of protective power....
The technique is readily available to a majority of people, of all religions and walks of life.
(Ann Druffel, How To Defend Yourself Against Alien Abduction [New York, New York: Three Rivers Press, 1998], approximate Kindle locations 1916, 1923)
When we come across claims about this sort of thing, we don't have much evidence to go by the large majority of the time. There can be some evidential significance to the experience for the experiencer. And there might be some degree of evidential significance for those who aren't experiencers, depending on the circumstances (e.g., because of some verifiable details involved in a particular case or because of a cumulative effect of multiple cases). I'm not denying that some UFO experiences have been ended supernaturally by appealing to Jesus, that such things can provide evidence of some type for Christianity, or anything like that. But there are non-Christian methods for ending UFO experiences, sometimes involving non-Christian religious figures, that have to be accounted for as well. My point is that these issues are larger and more complicated than people often suggest and need to be handled more carefully than Christians often handle them.
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