UAP Disclosure, Political Spin, and Why Occultists Should Pay Attention
Something is happening with UAP disclosure, and it’s happening fast enough that it’s worth talking about, especially if you use magick.
Here’s a quick summary for those who’ve been busy doing actual magick instead of doomscrolling. In February, Barack Obama casually told a podcaster that aliens are real. He later clarified he was speaking statistically, not from classified briefings, but by then it didn’t matter. The clip had gone everywhere. Donald Trump responded by directing the Pentagon to begin releasing government files on UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena), UFOs, and alien and extraterrestrial life. The White House then registered the domain aliens.gov. Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, posted an alien emoji and said the Pentagon was eager to comply. And just today, Vice President JD Vance told a podcaster, quite plainly, ‘I don’t think they’re aliens. I think they’re demons.’
Something Is In the Sky.
I’ve always been open to the idea that UAP are real, in the sense that there are objects in the sky that military pilots have tracked, filmed, and reported, and that these objects do things that our known technology can’t explain. Multiple military witnesses have testified before Congress. Footage exists that nobody in any official capacity has been able to debunk.
There are also millions of misidentifications, and as a pilot I despair when people see a plane and think it’s an alien ship. And yet there are also hundreds of thousands of plausible stories from ordinary people who experienced UAP. One way or another, the phenomenon is real.
I don’t know what these things are. Neither, apparently, does the Vice President of the United States, which makes his confidence about what they are all the more interesting.
The Demon Narrative
Vance’s exact words: ‘I think that celestial beings who fly around, who do weird things to people — I think that the desire to describe everything celestial, everything otherworldly, to describe it as aliens… I mean every great world religion, including Christianity, the one that I believe in, has understood that there are weird things out there.’ He went on to say that when he hears about ‘extra-natural phenomena,’ he defaults to a Christian framework, and that ‘one of the devil’s great tricks is to convince people he never existed.’
Regardless of your politics, this is a significant statement from a sitting Vice President. It’s not that the idea is new. The ‘UFOs are demons’ position has been circulating in certain Christian circles for decades. What’s new is that it’s being said by someone with, in his own words, ‘the very tippy top of the classification.’ This isn’t fringe commentary anymore. It’s the framing being offered as the government prepares to show us whatever it’s about to show us.
And that’s where I think practitioners of magick need to sit up and pay attention. Not because Vance might be right, but because a story is being shaped, and the shape matters.
When Disclosure Comes With a Script
If the US government drops genuinely strange UAP material on the public, people are going to need a way to make sense of it. And those ways of making sense don’t just show up on their own. Somebody provides them. Right now, two versions are being put forward. One says these are extraterrestrial visitors. The other says they are demons, spiritual entities of evil, best understood through a Christian lens.
What we’re watching is not yet disclosure. It’s narrative shaping. The story is being built before the evidence arrives, so that when the evidence does arrive, people will already know which box to put it in.
On the other side, there are prominent ufologists such as Chris Bledsoe, who wrote UFO of God, who believe that everything anomalous is an angel, and that a great awakening is coming. More ‘angels’ will soon be seen in the skies.
These claims should concern everyone, but it should especially concern those of us who work with spirits, because one of those boxes has our name on it.
Demons are not UFOs. Occultists Know This.
I’ve worked with demons. I’ve worked with angels. I have colleagues who have done the same, many of them for decades. And in the last decade, tens of thousands of readers have done the same, with great success, using books from The Gallery of Magick. And I can tell you with total confidence that whatever those things in the sky are, they are not the demons we know, and they are not the angels we know.
This is not a belief. It’s an observation based on extensive practical experience. When you evoke a demon the experience has specific qualities. There is a character and a personality. There’s a mode of interaction that is intimate and yet structured. The same is true of angels. The beings that occultists work with have names, histories, and consistent behaviours that have been documented across centuries of practice. They respond to specific calls. They have areas of influence. They communicate in ways that, while sometimes startling, are not ambiguous in the way a blurred infrared video of a fast-moving object is ambiguous.
The demons don’t fly around in orbs harassing Navy pilots. Angels don’t set off radar signatures over military bases. Whatever UAP are, they operate in a domain that is, at best, tangentially related to the work of ceremonial magick. To collapse these categories is to understand neither of them.
I will acknowledge that there may be a supernatural overlap. When you read a book like Skinwalkers at The Pentagon, there are some truly strange stories that show reality bending in uncomfortable ways. A book as extreme as that could be easily dismissed as fanciful nonsense if it weren’t for the pedigree of those behind the work that went on during that project. They are people who know what they are doing, with very high clearances. As such, there are almost certainly supernatural elements to some aspects of this phenomenon. But that doesn’t mean we can just grab a Bible and say it’s all angels and demons.
Vance is doing what people have always done when confronted with the unexplained: reaching for the nearest available supernatural category from their own tradition and sticking it on top. Christians see demons. New Agers see Pleiadians. Ancient astronaut theorists see, well, ancient astronauts. None of this is evidence. It’s pattern-matching, and the pattern says more about the person than about the phenomenon.
Why This Matters for Magick
If the demons narrative takes hold, and it might, given the audience it’s aimed at, then every form of spirit work gets painted with the same brush. Angel magick becomes suspect. Demon evocation becomes proof that you’re communing with the things that terrorise fighter pilots. Occultism, which has spent centuries being misunderstood, gets a fresh coat of misunderstanding, this time applied by the government of the most powerful country on earth.
I’m not suggesting a conspiracy. I don’t think JD Vance sat down and thought, ‘How can I make life difficult for people who use ritual magick?’ I think he sincerely believes what he’s saying, in the same way that many sincere people believe many wrong things. But sincerity doesn’t prevent consequences. If the public conversation about unexplained phenomena gets permanently routed through a ‘demons and spiritual warfare’ framing, the knock-on effects for anyone who works with spirits are real and worth thinking about.
What I Actually Think Is Happening
I think something genuinely anomalous is being observed in the skies and in the oceans. I think the US government knows more about it than it has said, as do many other governments. I think the current wave of disclosure is partly genuine revelation and partly theatre, because everything in politics is partly theatre. I think the demon framing is a way of claiming the phenomenon for a particular worldview before the data is in, and I think the alien framing may be doing the same thing from a different direction.
What I don’t think is that either framework is adequate. The universe is stranger than both, and the history of magick has taught me that much, at least. The phenomenon may turn out to be many different things at once, rather than a single, simple answer. And this may be a good thing, as ordinary people will be shown that psychic phenomena, for example, are absolutely real. This is probably some of the fallout that awaits us.
Those of us who have experienced genuine contact with non-physical beings through evocation, through ritual, through the deep work that has nothing to do with politics or podcast appearances, know something that the commentators don’t. We know what those contacts feel like. We know the texture of them. And we know that the entities we work with are not confused about what they are, even if the Vice President is confused about what’s in the sky.
Stay Curious, Stay Skeptical, Keep Working
Watch what’s coming with open eyes and a calm mind. If files get released, look at them. If footage comes out, watch it. But do not let anyone, whether a politician, pastor, podcaster, or occult author, tell you what you’re seeing before you’ve seen it.
And if you work with angels and demons, keep working. The beings you know are the beings you know. They existed long before anyone pointed a camera at the sky, and they’ll be here long after this news cycle fades.
It’s possible that reality is going to change in a big way, and if that happens, this is the best time to have magick on your side.
Damon Brand
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