UFO religion

UFO religion
Family	Umbrella category / New religious movements
Origin region	Modern global UFO culture
Founding period	20th and 21st centuries CE
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.

References