Days after the U.S. government released a new trove of documents and images related to UFOs — or UAPs, “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” — Vatican astronomer Br. Guy Consolmagno sat down with Catholic News Service for a wide-ranging conversation about aliens, theology, science, and the modern search for meaning.
Consolmagno, a Jesuit brother, planetary scientist, and former director of the Vatican Observatory, argues that the public fascination with extraterrestrials is not fundamentally about physics or government secrecy, but about something deeper: humanity’s fear of being alone in the universe and the growing collapse of trust in institutions, religion, and truth itself…
