Aliens Are Actually Just Demons 'Without Moving Their Mouth' in Sightings, University Professor Suggests

Aliens described in some reported UFO encounters may resemble figures long associated with demonic or spiritual phenomena, according to US professor Diana Pasulka, who has highlighted accounts of telepathy, levitation and voices perceived 'without moving their mouth.'

Pasulka, a professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, has stressed that these similarities do not prove aliens are demons, but the overlap is striking enough to warrant closer study.

Pasulka has spent years researching religion, technology and contemporary culture, including interviewing people who report encounters with alleged aliens or unidentified craft.

She has said that certain modern UFO narratives share features with older religious and paranormal stories, and that the language has shifted from angels and demons to aliens and advanced beings while many of the core details sound oddly familiar.

Aliens, Telepathy and 'Voices Without Mouths'

Speaking on That UFO Podcast, Pasulka discussed a subset of close encounter reports in which witnesses describe an entity that appears to bypass ordinary speech altogether.

Highlighting what she sees as a concerning overlap with some religious accounts of possession, she said witnesses report seeing 'an entity that seems to know your thoughts and can speak any language and can speak with you without moving their mouth.'

Witnesses have described what they interpret as telepathic communication, a voice perceived 'in the head' yet attributed to an external presence. On their own, those details might sound like standard alien lore. Pasulka's interest lies in how closely some of these reports resemble descriptions found in historical accounts of spiritual and religious experiences.

She also drew attention to stories of physical disturbances that witnesses link to alleged UFO events. On the podcast, she said some people describe 'poltergeist type of activity,' including objects flying across rooms and unnerving knocks on walls.

'You also see things that are poltergeist type of activity, you know, things flying and knocks on, you know, walls and scary things like that,' she said. 'So yeah, you do see this with certain UFO experiences.'

Such reports resemble phenomena traditionally associated with poltergeists and other alleged paranormal disturbances, rather than the clean metallic crafts of science fiction films.

Not Every UFO, Not Every Alien

Pasulka has written about how contemporary UFO stories have reshaped her thinking about belief without pushing her into full-on demonology. She has been clear that she is not claiming all UFOs or alleged alien entities are demonic.

On the podcast she emphasised that point, saying she is examining a specific cluster of intense, often private encounters that share characteristics with older accounts of demonic or spiritual activity. The question, in her view, is why the details line up so neatly, not whether that automatically proves a demonic cause.

A reported experience in which a figure appears to read a person's thoughts, communicate without visibly speaking and is followed by alleged disturbances such as unexplained knocks or moving objects, looks very different from a brief light in the sky. Whether readers accept that interpretation or not, Pasulka argues that the reported similarities deserve closer examination.

The vocabulary, she suggests, has changed with the times. The underlying weird stuff, not so much.

A Long History of 'Demonic' Aliens

The idea that aliens might be understood as dark spiritual beings is not new to the UFO world. Long before TikTok conspiracy threads, religious and occult thinkers were already wrestling with flying saucers.

Occultist Marjorie Cameron associated a reported 1952 UFO wave over Washington DC with the death of her husband, rocket engineer Jack Parsons, who had moved in the orbit of British occultist Aleister Crowley. Cameron interpreted the strange lights as part of a wider spiritual drama rather than a nuts-and-bolts extraterrestrial mission.

Mid-twentieth-century evangelist Walter Vinson Grant Sr. went even further in his 1954 booklet Men in Flying Saucers Identified: Not a Mystery! In the booklet, Grant argued that the beings associated with flying saucers were evil spirits rather than visitors from other planets.

American Eastern Orthodox monk Seraphim Rose, writing from a traditional Christian perspective, took a similar line. In his 1975 book Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future, he suggested that UFO phenomena could represent demonic deception and warned against treating alleged encounters as benign contact with higher intelligences.

Renowned British UFO writer Gordon Creighton, known for his work on mysterious aerial phenomena, also leaned toward a supernatural interpretation. He argued that many so-called aliens might be better understood through a spiritual or religious frame than a purely technological one.

For proponents of that view, talk of aliens often masks a much older debate about angels, demons and the nature of spiritual experience.

Where Religion and UFO Reports Overlap

Pasulka's work sits between these arguments. She is an academic of religion, not an exorcist, and she has also examined witness accounts and case material concerning alleged UFO and UAP experiences.

She notes that, whatever is ultimately going on, the people she interviews experience these events as real. They describe objects moving, time slipping, and bodies reacting in ways they cannot easily explain. In her writing and public comments, she has noted similarities between some of these reports and historical accounts of hauntings and demonic phenomena.

The reported experiences remain disputed and have not been established as evidence of demonic or extraterrestrial entities. The reports invite competing interpretations, from psychological or perceptual explanations to claims involving unknown physical or spiritual factors.

Independent verification of the reported experiences and their alleged explanations has not occurred. Pasulka's comments focus on similarities between accounts of certain UFO encounters and historical descriptions of spiritual or demonic phenomena, and she has explicitly said that those parallels do not prove the entities are demons.

For now, she appears less interested in telling people what aliens really are than in asking why some modern encounter stories sound so much like older religious ones. When a reported experience involves apparent telepathy, communication without visible speech and alleged physical disturbances, she argues that it may be more useful to compare it with centuries of spiritual narratives than to file it neatly under 'alien contact' and move on.