Dramatic claims that the Pope has alien secrets in the Vatican should be looked into, according to a UFO expert.
Steve Bassett is convinced the Catholic Church knows about alien activity and believes they have evidence stashed away in secretive archives. He told The Sun he believed the Church considers extraterrestrials “important”, something evidenced through their existence in religious artwork.
Bassett is best known as an extraterrestrial lobbyist and he wants the US Congress to acknowledge “an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race”.
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His comments come in the wake of bombshell claims from David Grusch. Last year, the former Air Force intelligence officer said the US has possession of “craft of non-human origin” discovered in Italy during Mussolini’s reign in 1933.
Grusch said this was later “backchannelled” to US President Franklin Roosevelt via Pope Pius XII before American officials took control of the potential spaceship. The comments are leading extraterrestrial experts to push the Vatican for the truth.
Bassett said Grusch’s “striking” remarks had caught many believers and activists off guard. He explained the story was previously unknown to them and came as a “surprise”.
“The Catholic Church, we have always known, has been aware of this subject going back perhaps hundreds and hundreds of years,” he said. “It’s gone so far as to say whoever these beings are, they [the Church] would be happy to baptise them if they wanted to be baptised.”
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Now, extraterrestrial experts hope the Vatican Apostolic Archives will uncover the truth. But The Sun reported they will need permission from Holy See — the Church’s supreme governing body — to sift through records spanning thousands of years.
Bassett said he thought the Church would eventually allow researchers in but this was unlikely to happen happen until the US formally revealed the existence of aliens. Until then, he added, question marks will linger over Grusch’s claim.
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