Tucker Carlson Says UFOs Are Controlled by ‘Spiritual Entities’ With Bases ‘Under the Ocean and the Ground’

UFOs and their pilots may not be “aliens” from a distant planet at all, but “spiritual entities” that have inhabited Earth for as long as humanity itself.

At least, that’s the “supernatural” theory that Fox News vet and former MSNBC host Tucker Carlson put forward this week on comedian Joe Rogan’s podcast

“There’s a lot of evidence that they’re under the ocean and underground,” Carlson told Rogan’s listeners during the show’s usual sprawling, three-hour chat format, adding, “They’re already here for a long time. .’

Carlson’s latest comments echo an increasingly common refrain from UFO-curious lawmakers, including Missouri Congressman Eric Burlison and fellow GOP lawmaker Tim Burchett, both of whom compared UFOs to Biblical entities in the past year.

Above, Rep. Tim Burchett (left) next to fellow “UAP Caucus” member Rep. Eric Burlison during a press conference held by members of the House Oversight Committee ahead of a public UFO hearing last July. Both members of Congress have compared UFOs to Biblical entities in the past year

“The first chapter of Ezekiel is pretty clear about a UFO sighting,” Rep. Burchett told reporters in January 2023, ahead of his effort to have UFO whistleblowers testify before Congress last summer.

“Every time I use the term ‘angels,'” added Representative Burlison, who was privy to classified briefings on the UFO phenomena, “to me it is synonymous with an extradimensional being.”

Tucker Carlson seemed to strongly endorse these ideas his podcast appearance on April 19while pleading ignorance of many unanswered questions surrounding this problem, now better known as Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena or UAP.

“They’re from here and they’ve been here for thousands of years,” Carlson said, “which they are.”

“And it’s pretty clear to me that they are ‘spiritual entities,'” he continued, “whatever that means.”

The veteran broadcaster explained that by “supernatural” he meant that the creatures were “above observable nature” and that they “do not behave according to the laws of science.”

“Once you put these facts together,” Carlson said rhetorically, “what do you conclude?”

Earlier in 2024, Rogan commented about Carlson’s growing public interest in UFOs, and wondered prior to Carlson’s appearance on his program, “What does he know?”

But speculation linking UFOs to religious visits and/or theories about interdimensional beings have been a recurring feature in discourse on the subject since the early 20th century.

Above, the 16th-century painting entitled ‘The Madonna with Saint Giovannino’, believed to be the work of Italian Renaissance artist Domenico Ghirlandaio. Some believe the painting contains a reference to ‘ancient’ UFOs with a sky-bound object above the Virgin Mary’s left shoulder

Above, a closer look at the mysterious glowing sky object depicted in Ghirlandaio’s painting

The concept achieved its highest and perhaps most renowned fame with the publication of the book ‘Passport to Magonia: from Folklore to Flying Saucers’ by astronomer and Internet pioneer Jacques Vallée in 1969.

Vallée, who later inspired the character of François Truffaut in Steven Spielberg’s UFO blockbuster “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” had spent years poring over tomes of ancient texts for the groundbreaking tome.

He combined 1,180 encounters with ‘luminous’ flying ‘earthenware ships’ reported over Japan, Roman stories of floating ‘shields’ and Native American stories of ‘baskets from heaven’ to establish a continuity with modern ‘flying saucer’ cases argue.

In more recent years, Vallée, now a Silicon Valley venture capitalist and computer scientist, has published an investigation into physical evidence of a UFO crash in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, Progress in Aerospace Sciences.

As he said WiredVallée hopes that research will “become a template (…) for what serious UFO research could be in the future, if you follow the rules.”

But similar arguments, linking UFOs to demonic entities or angelic miracles, have also been made in less scientific form on cable TV programs such as “Ancient Aliens” and online by conspiracy theorists and evangelical Christians, among others.

Phenomena Magazine editor Brian Allan, to name one story, spoke with Anglican minister Ray Boeche, who claims that a faction within the Pentagon deeply believes that UFOs are the product of demonic forces.

“The Defense Intelligence Agency looked at this demonic element and labeled these types of aliens as ‘non-human entities,’” Allan said.

“They believed there was a demonic component to the UFO phenomenon: they’re not invading us, it’s Biblical.”