0:00 I mean sometimes things will fly across the room. We had a plate fly across the room. We had a crucifix fly across the room. The person starts to levitate a little bit. The United States military spent six years training this man to handle its secrets. And then he spent the next four decades of his life standing in rooms with things that weren't even human. And a few days ago, when he finally told the public what he believes those things actually are, the Catholic Church removed him from his post in less than a week. And quietly marked that video of him talking about this stuff as private so you couldn't watch it. His name is Stephen Rossetti. He's a 74-year-old, and for years he was one of the most recognized exorcists in the Roman Catholic Church in America, with more than 148,000 people following him online. But long before Rome ever handed him that role, the United States military got to him first and trained him for six years. As an intelligence officer. So when a man that has a resume that looks like the UFO phenomenon says out loud that he believes the UFO phenomenon is primarily demonic, and when the very institution that had trusted him with that work moves to silence him in five days, you should want to know exactly what he said. You should want to know who silenced him.
1:26 And you should want to know why a sitting president, actually vice president, United States is saying the very same thing. That's why this video exists. Stay with me. I'm going to talk to you about the timeline that actually is what no one's talking about in this video. Let's start with who this man actually is, because the headlines are calling him a priest and leaving out the most interesting part of his life. According to his own published biography, he graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1973, and that work was not granular. It was a discipline. It was his task. It was, in plain terms, it was to assess information and look for the incomplete data, sort out the real information from the noise, and decide what was actually a threat. That's the kind of mind the military spent six years building before he became a Roman caller.
2:22 Now, I want to be honest with you, because this channel doesn't traffic in things it can't back up. There is no public evidence that Rossetti worked, on you know, UFOs or during this time in the Air Force, and I'm not going to tell you he did, because obviously I can't prove it, no one can else either. That's not the point. The point of this kind of mind is that a man was trained to have a mind built to evaluate evidence and identify deception. And where that mind eventually landed after 40 or more years of experience is mind-blowing. So hold that thought for a second, because it matters more as we go on. After the time in the Air Force, Rossetti entered the Roman Catholic priesthood, ordained in the Diocese of Saint-Cruz in New York in 1984. Now, let me be clear about something, because this channel has serious disagreements with Rome, and we'll get to one of those before we're done. I'm not holding up the church or titles to impress you. A caller has never made a man right, and it never will.
3:25 What I'm pointing out is the part that even a hardened skeptic has to respect. The worldly resume. Because Rossetti didn't just put on a collar. He also earned a doctorate in clinical psychology, a real one, and the real training on the human mind. And here's where his career gets heavy. From the 1990s into the 2009s, and again from the 2013s to 2014s, Rossetti led an institution called the St. Luke Institute in Maryland. That was a treatment center for Catholic priests and nuns, and they were trained to be doctors, and they were trained to be doctors, and they were trained to be doctors, and they were trained to be doctors, and they were trained to be doctors, and they were trained to be doctors, and they were trained to be doctors, and they were trained to be doctors, and they were trained to be doctors, and they were trained to be clergy struggling with mental health problems. What does that mean? Well, it means that they included the priests that had been accused of sexually abusing adults and children. Sit with that for a second. This is a man whose job for years was to sit across the table from the worst failures inside his own church and try to understand the human mind at its darkest. He went on to become a professor at the Catholic University of America. He served as a chaplain for the Washington Nationals baseball team, and for more than 15 years, he served as the exorcist for the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. He wrote a book about it, one of them literally titled The Diary of an American Exorcist.
4:45 So by the world's own measure, not the church's, this is no fringe figure with a webcam and a wild theory. This is serious credentialed man that has his own church trusted him for the work that he did for decades. And when a man like that tells you what he believes is behind the UFO phenomenon, you owe it to yourself to hear the words yourself. There's no question in my mind personally, again, this is not de fide, but it's my personal belief that probably many, if not most of these UFO sightings are in fact demons. And they can do things that we can't do, such thus the speed and all sorts of things that human beings can't do. The reason why this is important is because they will try to manipulate us again, as I said, behind the scenes. I had one woman come to us who lost her grandmother. She loved her grandmother, so she was normally right-handed. So she took her left hand and started engaging in a conversation with her dead grandmother. And there was this automatic writing, these beautiful letters would come across every, you know, beautiful letters, from her grandmother. She thought, I love you, my beautiful granddaughter, and I love you, and I'm fine, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So this went on for about six months. Then at the end of six months, the letters went south and they were really ugly. And then she realized this was not her dead grandmother she was conversing with, but a demon. And I think that's true of many people who are engaged with mediums. That's why the church says, don't do it. Don't engage with mediums. You think you're engaged with some beautiful deceased relative, and it's probably a demon masquerading as human. Or other people in the house, they say, well, we have a friendly ghost. No, no. And we don't interact with friendly ghosts. If you believe there's a deceased person that needs prayers, fine, pray for the person. But let's not have friendly ghosts, friendly UFOs, mediums, all that sort of thing connects us with the dark world as a portal. And the Bible and the church consistently warns us against this. Remember, our fight is against principalities and powers, evil spirits, Satan and his minions. On May 29, Rossetti posted a video. And in it, he wasn't reckless. He didn't claim to be speaking infallible doctrine. He was careful. He said in plain terms that the church teaches there is nothing incompatible with the faith about believing life could exist on other planets.
7:29 Though he himself didn't believe that, what he said was this. He said there's a danger here. And as an exorcist he wanted to raise that danger. And the danger in his words is that demons like to hide. They don't want us to know exactly what they are doing. Because they are more effective when we don't realize it. That right there is the entire thesis of deception in one sentence. From a man who spent 15 years in a room with it. And he's the МыIrdestHafting. Or theurgicalなら, or Easyjerke mejor and he went on. He said that these entities can get into your head. They can manipulate things in the world to influence people towards evil. And then he gave his conclusion. He said it was his personal belief that probably many, if not most, of these UFO sightings are in fact demons. He noted that they can do things humans simply cannot do. The speed, the impossible movement, all of it. That's what he said. That's the whole offense the church took issue with. Now, this is where it gets hard to look away. In early May of this year, the United States government did something that it had spent decades refusing to do. The Department of Defense released this first batch of historical files on what the government now calls the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon, UAP. It's the rebranded name of UFOs without the idea, the unidentified anomalous phenomenon, UAP. It's the rebranded name of UFOs without the idea, extraterrestrial, little green, four-footed men from Mars. Basically, hey, we're seeing something up in the atmosphere. We don't know what it is. That's the first release that came on May 8th. The second batch of records and videos was released on May 22nd. Two government drops, two weeks apart, and the whole subject exploded across the news again. Then on May 29, Rossetti posted his video straight into the middle of the national conversation.
9:24 And by June 3rd, the Archbishop of Washington had removed him as an exorcist, and the video was marked private. From posting to removal, five days. The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington is cutting ties with a priest for his comments about UFOs. Officials say Monsignor Stephen Rossetti, who serves as an exorcist, suggested many UFO sightings are the work of demons on his Facebook page. Cardinal Robert McElroy says those comments undermine official church teaching on demons. The Archdiocese is also cutting ties with Rossetti's nonprofit, the St. Michael's Center for Spiritual Renewal. Here's the detail that should not be lost on anyone watching this channel. The very term UFO was coined in the 1950s by a man named Captain Edward Ruplet. He ran the United States Air Force's Project Blue Book. The official program set up to investigate these sightings in roughly the 50s. The Air Force has been at the center of this question for a long time. The U.S. Air Force has been at the center of this question for a long time. The U.S. Air Force has been at the center of this question for a long time.
10:24 From the very beginning. And the man the church just silenced for talking about it? A former Air Force intelligence officer. I'm not telling you that they're two connected things. I think it's fascinating, though, that this is what he was trained for. But what I'm telling you is to write these dates down and look at them honestly. So who removed him? Well, it's the Archbishop of Washington, D.C., Cardinal Robert McElroy. Cardinal Robert McElroy. And he stated reason for removing Rossetti was it linked UFOs to demonic presences. And the center's use of social media gravely undermined the church's very precise teaching on the devil, demons, and exorcism. Stop and feel the strangeness of that sentence. An exorcist, a man the church itself appointed to confront demons, was removed for saying demons might be involved in something. Let that contradiction breathe for a moment and it gets stranger. Because here's what the Catholic Church has not removed anyone for saying. The Vatican operates an astronomical observatory, and the astronomers who run it have said publicly for years that they would be willing to baptize an extraterrestrial if one asked. Pope Francis reiterated his view Monday that everyone has the right to be baptized, and apparently that invite extends even to Martians. The pontiff described the hypothetical situation during morning Mass. According to Vatican Radio, Francis said, "...if, for example, tomorrow an expedition of Martians came, and some of them came to us, and one says, but I want to be baptized, what would happen?"
12:11 In other words, says The Wire, if God prompts some Martians to come to Earth, find the pope, and say, we want in on this Catholicism thing, the pope would probably say, OK, cool, but probably in Latin. The pope was making the point that baptism shouldn't be denied to anyone. One Vatican astronomer wrote an entire book with that exact question as the title. The current director of the Vatican observatory has said that extraterrestrial beings would be, in his words, children of God. In a universe so big, huge, I would say, as the one where we live with a hundred billion of galaxies. The Vatican's chief astronomer does say that there could exist other forms of life outside Earth. And he says, Pope Leo XIV visited that very observatory in the summer of 2025. So sit with that asymmetry for a second. Talk about baptizing aliens, and nobody is removed, saying they are children of God, and they are kept in service. But warn these things might be demons, and you're gone in five days. No questions asked. The Vatican's chief astronomer says that there could exist other forms of life outside Earth. And he says, Pope Leo XIV visited that very observatory in the summer of 2025. So sit with that asymmetry for a second. Talk about baptizing aliens, and nobody is removed, saying they are children of God, and they are kept in service. But warn these things might be demons, and you're gone in five days. No questions asked. One message tells you to trust whatever shows up in the sky. The other tells you to test it. Ask yourself which one the enemy of souls would rather you hear. And no marvel, for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
13:41 That's 2 Corinthians 11 verse 14. And listen, this is the exact kind of story that this channel exists for. We look at what the world calls phenomena, and we hold it up against other phenomena. And we hold it up against other phenomena. And we hold it up against other phenomena. And we hold it up against the word of God. That's why you're here. Do me a favor and hit the subscribe button, because the follow-up to this video is going to be enormous. What's coming, and what I'm going to talk about next, you're going to want to stick around for. And if you believe that this kind of work matters, know that Strange Normal, this YouTube channel, is an outreach of a non-profit ministry that only keeps going when viewers decide it's worth it. There's a link in the comments below. Let's get back to the program. Here's what makes this impossible to write off as one eccentric priest. Rossetti is not alone, not even close. In the spring of this year, the Vice President of the United States, J.D. Vance, who himself is a practicing Catholic, sat down for an interview and was asked about releasing the government's UFO files. He said plainly, I don't think that they're aliens. I think that they're demons. And he went on to explain that when he hears about what he calls natural phenomenon, he reaches for a Christian understanding that there is good, natural, and natural phenomena. He reaches for a Christian understanding that there is good, natural, and natural phenomena. He doesn't understand religion and thought that there is good and evil, both in the world. He said he'd be obsessed with the UFO files. That said, for three years left with the top of the government's classification access, he intends to get to the bottom of it.
15:07 He's not the only one. Other Exorcists warned the same thing that the alien narrative pulls people away from God and scripture, teaching them to look to the stars for salvation instead of to the cross. In an interview with us this morning, comprised of the hungry and desperate like you and the rest of us, Rossetti said, the man who fights demons for a living in the priesthood, and the man who has a heartbeat for the United States as a vice president, all come to the same answer. That's not fringe. That's a pattern. So let's get to the real question. Why would something like this want to call itself an alien? Well, Rossetti gave us the answer himself, because they're more effective when you don't realize what they're doing. Think about the genius of it. If a thing presents itself as a demon, a Christian knows exactly what to do. Resist it, rebuke it, run to God. But if that same thing presents itself as an advanced, benevolent visitor from another world that just wants to help you out with some major catastrophes or solving world hunger or health issues, well, then the Christian lowers his guard.
16:17 He's curious. He's impressed. He's open. They might assume maybe demons can't do anything good. They only do bad things. Well, that's not what the Bible says. The disguise doesn't just hide the threat. The disguise disarms the people equipped to recognize it. That is not a new strategy. The Bible warns us about it directly. Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits, whether they are from God. Because many false prophets have gone into the world. 1 John 4, verse 1. Try the spirits. Test them. We are not commanded to be afraid of them. We are commanded to test them. And the world tells us what the great end-time deception will look like. It says, Even him whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, that's 2 Thessalonians 2, verse 9, So power, signs, lying wonders, things that move at impossible speeds and do what no human can do.
17:26 Whereas that is exact description. The Bible didn't say that the final deception would be ugly and obvious. It said it would come with wonders, with things that make you say, no human could do that. And here's the part that you can't unsee once you've seen it. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rules, and against the rulers of darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Ephesians 6, verse 12. Paul told us 2,000 years ago that the real war was never with people. It was with spiritual forces we couldn't see. The only thing that changed is what these forces are now calling themselves. Maybe they called themselves a snake in the garden. Maybe they called themselves demons, as they are.
18:20 Maybe they'll call themselves aliens in the future. So here's what I'm watching. And I think going forward, you should be watching this with me. One, watch whether Rossetti stays silent or speaks again. He's already apologized for any way he's been unfaithful to the church's teaching. And he urges people to stay in the boat, to stay with the church. But notice what he did not do. He never actually took back. He never took back the belief that these things are demons. He regretted disobedience. He didn't recant the conclusion. Watch that space. Two, watch how far the eraser goes. The St. Luke Institute, the one that Rossetti ran, you know, the place where he once led, announced it would remove his teaching content from its platform within days of his removal.
19:18 So his words aren't true. They aren't just being silenced in one video. They are being scrubbed from places he built. Watch whether more of this material quietly disappears. And on a side note, see what kind of message that sends from the Vatican to any further Catholics that want to talk about aliens. This pretty much silences anybody talking about that and sets a precedent for what they believe. Three, watch the government releases. There are more UAP files coming. And every time the world's attention turns back to the sky, watch who steps forward to tell you these things are friendly. And watch who gets silenced for telling you to test them. Four, watch the language. Watch how steadily the culture keeps replacing the word demon with the word alien. And the word spiritual with the word extraterrestrial.
20:19 Because the name you accept for things decides how you respond to it. Now there's nothing we can fear here. But the good news is, and it's the best news there is, that whatever these things are, and the people closest to the question think they know, they're not your equal. And they're not your master. They are created things. They hide because they are afraid of being recognized. And the moment a child is born, and the moment a child of God recognizes a lie for what it is, the lie loses its power. You don't have to decode classified files to be safe. You have the law, the prophets, the testimony of the Bible. The word of God. Try the spirits. Hold every wonder, every visitor, every glowing thing in the sky up against the scripture.
21:10 And if it doesn't agree with the word, there is no light in it. That's not paranoia, that's discernment. And it's available to anyone reading the Bible today. If this gave you something to think about, share it with the person who needs to hear it. And subscribe so that you can catch the follow-ups. Because I'm going to go deeper into who Cardinal McElroy is and why the Vatican will baptize an alien, but won't let an exorcist warn you about one. And before you go, I want to hear from you. Drop me a comment and tell me what you make of all this. Do you think Rossetti is right? That most of these things are demons? Or do you land somewhere else? I read what you write down there. And honestly, this conversation that we have in the comments is half the reason this channel exists. So don't stay quiet.
21:57 Tell me what you thought. Until next time, keep your eyes open, keep your Bibles closer, and stay normal out there, even when it gets strange.