Tennessee evangelist Perry Stone claims new government documents slated for release could upend the Christian faith
A prominent US evangelist has claimed that government officials held a secret briefing for pastors and urged them to prepare their congregations for the imminent release of information about alien life and unidentified spacecraft, which could shatter Christian faith.
Perry Stone, a Tennessee-based Pentecostal preacher and founder of the Voice of Evangelism ministry, made the remarks in a podcast last week, which gained traction only recently.
Citing an unidentified friend, Stone said that “there were a large number of pastors who had been invited to go to a certain state to hear some men in the United States government and others share with them a concern that they had”.
The officials, he said, warned that forthcoming releases would cover non-human spacecraft built of materials “not allegedly a part of our planet”, as well as “very strange reptilian-looking creatures” – details Stone said, “almost sound like something out of a sci-fi movie”. In this vein, he speculated that Steven Spielberg’s upcoming sci-fi film ‘Disclosure Day’ could be loosely based on those secretive documents.
Stone, a vocal supporter of US President Donald Trump, claimed that the pastors were told to expect two contrasting public reactions. “You’re going to have people who are going to say, ‘If there are galaxies, and there are allegedly other creations in the galaxies, then the whole creation story is a myth’” and that some believers would “apostatize and turn from the Christian faith,” he warned.
At the same time, he noted, there would be non-believers who would “freak out” and turn to churches for answers.
Stone also recalled that the rumor generally coincided with reports of the disappearance or death of a dozen people connected to sensitive US nuclear and aerospace research over the past several years. The FBI has yet to provide any definitive explanation, saying it was “look[ing] for connections” between the incidents.
It also comes as Trump has teased releasing documents on UFOs ahead of the midterm elections. In late April, he said that some of the material was “very interesting.”
In 2024, the Pentagon released a report detailing decades of UFO sightings, which it said contained no proof of extraterrestrial life. In February, former US President Barack Obama stated he believed aliens to be “real,” though he added that he had not seen them and that there is no evidence of their existence.