An exorcist has shared a disturbing story that convinced him some UFO encounters could be linked to the devil.
Father Carlos Martins, a Catholic priest, recently spoke to Mail Online about a report relayed to him by a longtime friend, who claimed to have seen a craft hovering above a park before it suddenly vanished at extraordinary speed.
According to Martins, the object appeared enormous — spanning what he described as “many football fields” in size.
He told the Mail: “I have a good friend who is a convert. He converted to the Christian faith in his late teens or early 20s. We grew up in the same hometown.
“[My friend] was walking with another friend on a weeknight along a trail in a suburb that ran between two homes and opened into a large park.
“They looked up into the sky and saw this enormously large spaceship. It was immensely large, many football fields in size.”
Martins said the sighting didn’t become local talk: he claims no other residents reported seeing it, and there were no media mentions at the time.
Even so, he explained that his friend later came to believe the incident may not have involved extraterrestrials at all, but rather something intended to mislead.
The exorcist told the Mail: “If the devil brings it about, he can put it into the human imagination that there is extraterrestrial life, that there are civilizations out there, then he can cause doubt in the Scriptures.
“What he’s done then is set up a competing account to the Christian scriptures, something the Judeo-Christian scriptures cannot account for, and so there’s an indirect repudiation of the truth of revelation. He’s accomplished that.”
Martins also said the entire moment was over almost as quickly as it began, lasting under a minute before the object disappeared.
Martins added: “They look at one another, and then they look back at the ship, and it would have been less than a minute.
“All of a sudden, it takes off with a speed that’s just unfathomable, instantly to the speed of a bullet. So it just shot out of the sky. There wasn’t an acceleration, it was just instant darting away.”
He went on to claim that, in his experience, accounts involving UFOs alongside reports connected to exorcism have become more frequent in recent years.
“I wouldn’t say that it’s common, but I would say it’s definitely on the rise,” Martins added.