Editing UFO religion

{| class="wikitable" style="float:right; margin:0 0 1em 1em; width:320px;"
! colspan="2" | UFO religion
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! Family
| Umbrella category / New religious movements
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! Origin region
| Modern global UFO culture
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! Founding period
| 20th and 21st centuries CE
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! Estimated adherents
| Not applicable as a single religion; includes many groups with varying memberships.
|}

'''UFO religion''' is an umbrella term for religious movements and worldviews that give central spiritual importance to UFOs, extraterrestrials, alien contact, spacecraft, or cosmic beings.

== Overview ==
UFO religion is a descriptive category, not one church. It includes movements that combine UFOs or extraterrestrial contact with salvation, prophecy, spiritual evolution, apocalyptic expectation, or reinterpretation of older religious traditions. Examples include the Aetherius Society, Heaven's Gate, Unarius, and some forms of Raelism.

== Key beliefs ==

* Extraterrestrial beings may be spiritually advanced
* UFOs or spacecraft may play a role in salvation or transformation
* Humanity may be guided, judged, or evolved by cosmic intelligences
* Religious myths may be reinterpreted as alien contact stories
* Beliefs vary widely from peaceful service movements to apocalyptic groups

== Practices ==

* Contactee messages and channeling
* Meditation or prayer for planetary healing
* UFO watching or skywatching
* Study of extraterrestrial revelation texts
* Conference and online community activity

== Places of worship ==

* Movement-specific centers
* Homes
* Online groups
* Conferences
* Pilgrimage sites or mountains in some groups

== Sacred texts ==

* Contactee writings
* UFO religion scriptures
* Channelled teachings
* Alternative history and ancient astronaut books

== Holidays and observances ==

* No universal calendar
* Movement founding dates
* UFO-related observances
* Prophecy dates in some groups

== Branches and related traditions ==

* [[Aetherius Society]] - A UFO religion founded by George King.
* [[Heaven's Gate]] - A historical UFO-based new religious movement.
* [[Raelism]] - A UFO religion centered on extraterrestrial creation of humanity.

== See also ==

* [[Religion]]
* [[Theology]]
* [[Philosophy of religion]]
* [[New Religious Movements]]

== References ==

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[[Category:Religions]]
[[Category:New Religious Movements]]
[[Category:UFO religions]]