He was recently interviewed by Ross Coulthart, and the subject of the demonic explanation of UFOs came up. Coulthart asked about the widespread reports that Christians (apparently primarily or exclusively Evangelicals) in the United States government have tried to shut down UFO research on the basis that UFOs are demonic and that we shouldn't do further research into them. Coulthart and Vallee both dismiss that sort of reasoning, comparing it to refusing to investigate a crime because it involves evil. I agree with them that even if the demonic hypothesis were true, the government and other people should still research UFOs and, in fact, should research them a lot. For more on the subject, see here. What I want to do in this post is focus on some other comments Coulthart and Vallee made while addressing the issue of demonic activity.
It's noteworthy that Coulthart and Vallee, both non-Christians and both highly knowledgeable about UFOs, think there's a malevolent side to UFO phenomena. Vallee expresses some sympathy for the Christian concern about the dangers of interacting with UFOs. He refers to some information he has on UFOs that he's so far refrained from releasing to the public because of that sort of concern.
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.
I've discussed issues like these in the past, such as in the comments section of the thread here several years ago. In that thread, I discussed some potential reasons why a non-Christian would be able to perform successful exorcisms and the like. It's a thread about the Enfield Poltergeist, and that case involved many successful efforts at reducing the poltergeist's activities by mediums (some who were professing Christians and some who weren't).
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.
If you watch the Coulthart/Vallee segment I linked above, I recommend continuing to watch for about twenty minutes after that starting point I linked. In the last part of that twenty-minute segment, they discuss a case in Brazil in the 1970s and 1980s that was unusually violent. It's a good illustration of how malevolent UFO phenomena can be.
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