“The rumors are real,” pastor Mike Signorelli wrote on X. “I was brought into a private briefing with other pastors. No phones, no cameras, no recordings. We were told plainly: Disclosure is coming, and what follows will shake the faith of many. If pastors don’t start preparing their people now, it will be too late.”
We’ve all seen the movies. In Arrival, investigators must figure out how to communicate with aliens. In E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, a child befriends an alien and helps the alien back to their family. District 9 imagines aliens being sent to a run-down government camp. Independence Day explores the human desire to survive in the face of the far superior alien technology.
This summer, Stephen Spielberg is releasing his latest alien sci-fi thriller, Disclosure Day. But Spielberg says he believes his latest movie is “way closer to truth than fiction.”
“I don’t know any more than any of you do,” Spielberg said. “But I have a very strong suspicion that we are not alone here on Earth right now — and I made a movie about that.”
However, other than evangelical Rapture movies, the idea of the U.S. government meeting in an AirBnB in the backwoods of Tennessee with a group of Pentecostal pastors to tell them to warn their parishioners not to be deceived by the imminent alien disclosure hasn’t been a plot line that crossed many Hollywood writers’ minds.
Mike Signorelli (sacond from left) withJoseph Z, Alan Didio and Josh Hamstra on the Mike Signorelli podcast.
The Airbnb meetings
“There were a large number of pastors that 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,” began pastor Perry Stone.
He recalled his friend who was in attendance telling him, “Perry, what they’re about to release — from what we’re hearing, there’s going to be a release concerning aliens and concerning unidentified flying object spacecraft that some of the people who were in the meeting were telling us as pastors, you need to prepare your people and you need to get ready to answer them for what you’re about to hear being released.”
It might be easy for many to dismiss Perry’s claims as the rantings of someone pretending they’re in the know. But Perry is friends with White House Faith Advisor Paula White and ministers with her often. Given the fact that he actually does have connections to the government, it doesn’t seem likely he’d feel the need to completely make up his connections to the government.
And he’s not the only one. I share audio clips from a number of these pastors in the latest episode of the BNG podcast “Highest Power: Church + State.”
Bishop Alan DiDio of Revival Nation Church affirmed, “I was in this meeting, and it’s absolutely true.”
He clarified in a later video that there were actually two separate meetings. He said his understanding was that Perry Stone was referring to the first meeting, in which Didio was not in attendance.
He called it “the strangest meeting I’ve ever been invited to in my life.”
“So imagine me in this situation,” he began. “Someone I know who has extensive experience within the armed forces, I shall say, tells me about the legitimacy of this meeting and invites me to this meeting. I go to this Airbnb in the middle of nowhere Tennessee, on a dark, it was at night, on this dark road in the middle of this neighborhood, and I’m asked when I get on the property to turn my phone on airplane mode. This is weird, guys. This is not sensationalizing it, it is sensational, it’s weird. And we go into this meeting with, I don’t remember all the people who were there … but I know Mike Signorelli was there, I know that Joseph Z was there, I know Ben Hughes was there, and I think Fred Price was there. There were a few others there, so between a half a dozen to a dozen, something like that.”
He said, “The people in the meeting who were leading the meeting have access to government intelligence and are in the know. And I believe they believe what they were telling us. And I believe they know what they were talking about.”
Screencap frrom MIke Signorelli podcast.
What’s coming
The specifics of the allegedly imminent disclosure can be hard to pin down. The pastors said they were told there could be a variety of theories given.
According to Perry, his friend told him, “Some of it has to do with crafts that have been discovered that are not allegedly a part of our planet, and the materials they’re made of are not a part of our planet.”
He said his friend spoke of being told about “very strange reptilian-looking creatures and other things that almost sound like something out of a sci-fi movie or an Orson Welles book.” Others mentioned the reptilian creatures having scales.
“There’s going to come a great disclosure, even an announcement that we’re not alone in the universe.”
But Kevin Zadai claims: “We’re dealing with the book of Revelation. These things are going to come out of the earth. They didn’t come on spaceships. These are inter-dimensional beings. And those who have enough sodium pentathol in their system when I ask them will tell me the truth, no matter what agency they work for. They will tell me the truth. And that is they’re inter-dimensional. They’re not coming from far away. They’re coming from below your house.”
Joseph Z says he and a group of pastors participated in a disclosure meeting about “UFOs, UAPs, all these things.” He says they were told, “There’s going to come a great disclosure, even an announcement that we’re not alone in the universe, we’re not alone, and there’s non-human intelligence that is absolutely happening all over.”
His words sound reminiscent of Congressman Tim Burchett, who said: “I’ve been briefed by just about every alphabet agency there is. And I’ll just tell you this. If they would release the things that I’ve seen, you’d be up at night worrying about or thinking about this stuff.” He went on to add, “I was briefed last week on an issue … it would’ve set the earth on fire. This country would have come unglued if they would have heard all I heard.”
And according to Joseph Z, he and the pastors saw the UAPs personally on their flight the day after their meeting. “What we encountered was six objects in the sky out in front of the aircraft,” he said. “We believe these are UAPs and UFOs.”
Then he added, “The next day, the president puts out a post that says he has authorized the specific agencies involved to find the truth of the matter of aliens, UFOs, UAPs and all these issues and bring them out to the public.”
Screencap from Mike Signorelli podcast.
Aliens, demons and the great deception
Pastor Greg Locke, who has tried to rebrand himself in recent years from conspiracy theorist to demon slayer, came to his friends’ defense on X. “No, I wasn’t part of the ‘alien’ meeting. Yes, I believe my friends are telling the truth. No, aliens aren’t real. YES, ANGELS & DEMONS absolutely exist,” he posted.
Locke’s position is the stance that the pastors involved in the meetings seem to have as well.
According to Joseph Z, “The reason why we’re being notified about this is that there are people who are working in agencies with agencies who want to make sure the church is prepared to give an answer. We can’t be taken back on our heels when this information comes out. We’ve got to begin teaching our congregations now what the Bible says about non-human intelligence.”
“The purpose of the meeting was to reveal to pastors and church leaders that there’s going to be a mass deception that’s coming.”
DiDio agrees: “The purpose of the meeting was to reveal to pastors and church leaders that there’s going to be a mass deception that’s coming. However, we must stick to the word of God and say what the Bible says it is.”
He said the people who organized the meetings wanted to give them the heads up “because they’re concerned the body of Christ is not ready for it.”
“Whenever they disclose whatever they’re going to disclose … many people in the church and many people in the world are not going to know what to do with this information,” he said. “But if we can get to them first, if we can get to them first and say, hey, listen, here’s what the Bible says. The Bible says there are entities of non-human intelligence. They’re called demons.”
Mike DiDio
And again, it’s not simply a few rogue pastors who believe this. Former Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher recently to say she and other government officials believe these are demons. And Vice President JD Vance has said multiple times over the past few months, “If another person sees an alien, maybe I see an angel or a demon.”
Their ultimate concern is that the government will call them aliens, when in reality they are demons who are intent on causing evangelicals to deconstruct. According to Z, “If we wait until the disclosure comes, what these individuals are concerned about is that many will fall away. … And the real truth, and this is kind of why we talk about it, is because ultimately this is to deny Jesus. That’s where this is headed.”
Because evangelical theology suggests the entire universe has been affected by human sin on earth, the evangelical understanding of the universe is earth-centric. And they simply can’t imagine questioning their most fundamental beliefs about reality being an earth-centered authority and submission hierarchy or considering any other theological alternatives.
How to respond to the potential alien disclosure
Many of recommendations center on trusting the media or the government, since they think the media and government are going to claim the beings are aliens in order to get evangelicals to deconstruct their faith.
DiDio points to 2 John 7, which says, “For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.”
Then he asks, “If they entered into the world, where do they come from?”
For believers in the pre-tribulational rapture — like DiDio —these deceivers who enter the world from somewhere else out there will lead to the antichrist of dispensational lore who will deceive the world by bringing it together.
Didio’s son mentioned a guest preacher they recently hosted who said AI was going to “rewrite the Bible in a way that every religion would agree with.” Then his son added, “If there’s crazy evidence that comes out, imagine a one world leader needs to take power. You see Hitler used the church. He used every possible religion he could. He tried to unify them so he could bring everybody under the same umbrella and take complete control. The antichrist would have a similar strategy. He has to be able to unite everyone.”
Instead of listening to the reptilian demons who want us to pursue unity with our neighbors, we must remain divided by committing to white evangelical theologies of authority and submission. So ultimately, if one of these scaled, reptilian creatures crawls out from underneath our floorboards or pops out of an erratically flying orb, all we have to do is demand they also bend the knee to the white evangelical Jesus.
Or as DiDio put it, “I did extensive research in my writings on alien abductions in comparison with demonic possession and the similarities are startling. But one of the things I discovered is whenever the name of Jesus is mentioned, these entities run in terror. Why? Because every knee shall bow. Every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord.”
The aliens are coming! The aliens are coming!
So when is the disclosure happening? According to Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp of the Weaponized Podcast, “sources in the White House as well as Congressional members” are telling them “the presidential UFO file release will begin tomorrow (May 8). We are told it will be slow and steady at first. Nothing shocking initially.”
Didio thinks it’s happening soon as well. He says, “I’ve heard some people say that they plan to do an official disclosure on July the 8th because that’s the anniversary of Roswell. However, with all this conversation, it could be expedited. But I personally believe that Trump, being the politician he is, is keeping this as a wild card so should the conversation shift in a direction he doesn’t like, he says, ‘Now let’s disclose the alien thing.’”
Rick Pidcock is a 2004 graduate of Bob Jones University, with a bachelor of arts degree in Bible. He’s a freelance writer based in South Carolina and a former Clemons Fellow with BNG. He completed a master of arts degree in worship from Northern Seminary. He is a stay-at-home father of five children and is the author of a forthcoming book, Weapons of Worship: How the Songs of Evangelicalism Form the Soundtrack of Extremism. Follow his blog at www.rickpidcock.com.