Religion and UFOs 宗教与不明飞行物[研究文集]
亚历山大不明飞行物宗教危机调查：问题的发展和反应的分析
John Alexander，博士，NIDS（国家发现科学研究所）
宇宙中有智慧外星生命的无可辩驳的证据会对美国的宗教意识形态产生影响吗？UFO 社区坚持认为，美国政府隐瞒有关 UFO 现象（及其组成方面）的信息有几个原因。一个突出的理由是这个国家将出现宗教危机。然而，在我的研究中，我找不到任何证据来证实这个前提。这个难题引出了一个假设性问题：如果要发生大规模 UFO 降落，牧师、神父和拉比将如何向他们的会众讲述这一事件？如果在面对面接触后的几周内，我们发现（正如 UFO 社区的领导人所宣称的那样）这些技术明显优越的生物没有宗教信仰会怎样？
亚历山大不明飞行物宗教危机调查：统计分析
John Alexander，博士，NIDS（国家发现科学研究所）
亚历山大不明飞行物宗教危机调查只是解决了不明飞行物社区面临的众多问题之一：美国有组织的宗教如何对确认与先进的外星文明接触的反应。这些是本次调查的统计结果。
亚历山大不明飞行物宗教危机调查：不明飞行物及其居住者对宗教的影响
由 Victoria Alexander 指挥，（NIDS / Bigelow Foundation）
亚历山大不明飞行物宗教危机调查只是解决了不明飞行物社区面临的众多问题之一：美国有组织的宗教如何对确认与先进的外星文明接触的反应。这项试点调查的结果简单明了，而且非常简单。被调查的神学家不会感觉到他们的信仰，他们会众的信仰会受到威胁。以下结果基于 23% 的回报率（230 次调查），应该会对 UFO 社区、其学说和态度产生重大而有意义的影响。
ET 和上帝：地球上的宗教能否在宇宙其他地方发现生命后幸存下来？
保罗戴维斯，大西洋月刊，2003 年 9 月
在地球以外某处仅发现一种细菌将迫使我们修改对我们是谁以及我们在什么地方融入宇宙事物的理解，使我们陷入一场深刻的精神认同危机，这将与哥白尼在 1500 年代早期提出，当时他断言地球不在宇宙的中心。R
火星传教士？在宇宙中寻找生命的宗教意义
大卫威尔金森，平实的真相，2004 年 4 月至 5 月
如果在宇宙的其他地方发现外星智能（ETI），基督徒是否必须进行关闭销售？还是已经有基督对不同世界的热情？R
火星上可能存在的生命引发了神学意义
美国有线电视新闻网，1996 年 8 月 7 日
一种卑微的可能性。这就是该国宗教界的一些官员描述美国宇航局最近发现的方式。神学家说，火星上存在生命的可能性超越了“以人类为中心的世界观”——一种将人类置于宇宙中心的世界观。R
宗教与寻找外星智慧
Joseph L. Spradley，惠顿学院物理系（PSCF 50，1998 年 9 月）
最近的 SETI 文献表明，这种努力是由准宗教动机维持的，但与外星人接触的可能性和可能性都具有与基督论和人类意义相关的神学含义。
不明飞行物研究与基督教信仰
Dennis G. Balthaser，2004 年 6 月
多年来，在座谈会和谈话中，我多次被问到我是否是基督徒，我的回答总是：“是的，我是。” 许多人似乎对此有问题或“挂断”，而我从来没有。
不明飞行物学和神学澄清
Monsignor Corrado Balducci，梵蒂冈神学家
最后，我获得了巴尔杜奇主教在我们 2002 年 12 月在罗马举行的历史性会议上给我的史无前例的论文的英文译本。在这部开创性的著作中，主教神学家（教皇选择担任罗马/梵蒂冈总教区的首席驱魔人）不仅为星际访客与人类接触的现实性和可接受性提供了一个严密的案例，而且认为这些访客在智力和精神上的进化比人类更高。（博伊兰）R
不明飞行物学和神学澄清
Monsignor Corrado Balducci，梵蒂冈神学家
最后，我获得了巴尔杜奇主教在我们 2002 年 12 月在罗马举行的历史性会议上给我的史无前例的论文的英文译本。在这部开创性的著作中，主教神学家（教皇选择担任罗马/梵蒂冈总教区的首席驱魔人）不仅为星际访客与人类接触的现实性和可接受性提供了一个严密的案例，而且认为这些访客在智力和精神上的进化比人类更高。（博伊兰）R
不明飞行物和外星人——教会的问题？
Monsignore Corrado Balducci, 罗马
主教。Balducci 是最著名和最受尊敬的意大利神学家之一。我们首次以英文翻译发表了他的论文。这确实值得注意，因为这是罗马天主教高级神学家和教廷成员对不明飞行物现象的第一次详细陈述。不仅如此，它还展示了罗马天主教会在这个问题上的开放性，并且可以被认为是从一个主要世界宗教的角度来看关于 UFO/ET 现实的第一个复杂的积极声明——拥有超过 10 亿的信徒， RC 教会确实是地球上最大的宗教团体。R
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Alexander UFO Religious Crisis Survey: Development of Questions and Analysis of Responses
John Alexander, Ph.D, NIDS (National Institute for Discovery Science)
Would irrefutable proof of intelligent extraterrestrial life in the universe have any effect on religious ideology in the U.S.? The UFO Community maintains there are several reasons the U.S. government has withheld information on the UFO phenomenon (and its component aspects). A reason prominently offered is that there would be a religious crisis in this country. Yet, in my research I could find nothing to substantiate this premise. This conundrum led to the hypothetical question: if a mass UFO landing were to take place how would pastors, priests and rabbis address the event to their congregation? What if, in the weeks that followed a face-to-face contact, we found out (as the UFO Community’s leaders proclaim) these obviously technologically superior beings had no religion?
Alexander UFO Religious Crisis Survey: Statistical Analysis
John Alexander, Ph.D, NIDS (National Institute for Discovery Science)
The Alexander UFO Religious Crisis survey addresses just one of many problems facing the UFO Community: how would organized religions in the United States react to confirmation of contact with an advanced extraterrestrial civilization. These are the statistical results of this survey.
Alexander UFO Religious Crisis Survey: The Impact of UFOs and Their Occupants on Religion
Conducted by Victoria Alexander, (NIDS / Bigelow Foundation)
The Alexander UFO Religious Crisis survey addresses just one of many problems facing the UFO Community: how would organized religions in the United States react to confirmation of contact with an advanced extraterrestrial civilization. The results of this pilot survey are straightforward and remarkably simple. The theologians surveyed would not feel their faith and the faith of their congregation would be threatened. The following results, based upon a 23% return (230 surveys) should have a significant and meaningful impact on the UFO Community, its doctrines and attitudes.
E.T. and God: Could earthly religions survive the discovery of life elsewhere in the universe?
Paul Davies, The Atlantic Monthly, September 2003
The discovery of just a single bacterium somewhere beyond Earth would force us to revise our understanding of who we are and where we fit into the cosmic scheme of things, throwing us into a deep spiritual identity crisis that would be every bit as dramatic as the one Copernicus brought about in the early 1500s, when he asserted that Earth was not at the center of the universe. R
Missionaries to Mars? The religious implications of the search for life in the Universe
David Wilkinson, The Plain Truth, Apr-May 2004
Will Christians have to hold a closing-down sale if extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) is found elsewhere in the Universe? Or has there already been the passion of the Christ on different worlds? R
Possible life on Mars raises theological implications
CNN, August 7, 1996
A humbling possibility. That’s the way some officials in the country’s religious communities are describing NASA’s recent discovery. Theologians say the possibility that life exists on Mars moves beyond an “anthropocentric worldview” — one that places humankind at the center of the universe. R
Religion and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Joseph L. Spradley, Department of Physics, Wheaton College (in PSCF 50, September 1998)
Recent SETI literature reveals that this effort is sustained by quasi-religious motivations, but both the possibility and improbability of alien contact have theological implications relating to Christology and human significance.
UFO Research and Christian Faith
Dennis G. Balthaser, June 2004
Over the years at symposiums and in conversations, I’ve been questioned several times about whether I was a Christian or not, and my answer is always, “Yes I am.” Many people seem to have a problem or “hang up” about that, whereas I never have.
Ufology and Theological Clarifications
Monsignor Corrado Balducci, Vatican theologian
Finally I have obtained an English translation of the unprecedented paper Monsignor Balducci gave me at our historic Meeting in Rome in December (2002). In this seminal work, the Monsignor-theologian, (who is the Pope’s choice as Chief Exorcist for the Archdiocese of Rome/Vatican itself), not only makes an air-tight case for the reality and acceptability of Star Visitor contacts with humans, but argues that these Visitors are more highly intellectually and spiritually evolved than humans. (Boylan) R
Ufology and Theological Clarifications
Monsignor Corrado Balducci, Vatican theologian
Finally I have obtained an English translation of the unprecedented paper Monsignor Balducci gave me at our historic Meeting in Rome in December (2002). In this seminal work, the Monsignor-theologian, (who is the Pope’s choice as Chief Exorcist for the Archdiocese of Rome/Vatican itself), not only makes an air-tight case for the reality and acceptability of Star Visitor contacts with humans, but argues that these Visitors are more highly intellectually and spiritually evolved than humans. (Boylan) R
UFOs and Extraterrestrials – A problem for the Church?
Monsignore Corrado Balducci, Rome
Msgr. Balducci is one of the best-known and most respected Italian theologians. We publish his paper for the first time in an English translation. It is indeed noteworthy, since it is the very first detailed statement of a senior Roman Catholic theologian and Curia member on the UFO phenomenon. More than that, it demonstrates the openness of the Roman Catholic church in this question and can be considered the first ever complex positive statement regarding the UFO/ET reality from the point of view of a major world religion – with its over 1 Billion faithful, the RC Church is indeed the largest religious community on Earth. R
