On the morning of February 8, 1855, an astounded group of villagers in Devon, England observed a long trail of horse-shoe shaped foot prints in the snow. The townspeople were afraid to leave their houses at night because they assumed the tracks were made by the Devil.
During the Black Plague in 14th century Europe, those who died were sometimes believed to be Vampyres, coming back from the dead to afflict the living.

For over 200 years in England, thousands of men and women were found with strange marks on their bodies, mysterious illnesses, or what appeared to be supernormal abilities. They were sentenced to death by the church for being witches and making covenants with the devil.
In December of 1997, a 17 year-old boy was brought before a Romanian priest after coming down with a mysterious illness. The priest performed an exorcism on the youth believing that his unexplainable condition was caused by a demon.
In January 1998, a New York mother and her older daughter were indicted after suffocating a younger member of the family during an attempt to exorcise a demon from the teenage girl.

There are thousands of stories throughout history similar to the affore mentioned ones, all of which are negative or unexplainable phenomena blamed on evil figures of every religion in the world. Christians attribute addictions, bad habits, temptations, and illness to Satan. Pagan cultures have their own evil spirits or angry gods who take the blame. However, others who deem the belief in God or Satan as unscientific will readily ignore the fundamental laws of physics, biology, psychology, logic, etc. and blame negative paranormal phenomena on extraterrestrial beings from other worlds.

Many UFO believers blame cattle mutilations, crop circles, abduction experiences, some nightmares, electronic disturbances, strange creatures such as Mothman and the Chupacabra, even some human disappearances and deaths on sinister gray aliens. If they don't blame the otherworldly, governments often take the blame. Is this the roll of the extraterrestrial in today's society - the evil devil tormenting mankind?

There is often a direct link from the UFO phenomena to the occult. They appear to coincide and are similar in many aspects. Some believe that alien beings are actually demons, while the Skeptic's Dictionary makes a great observation suggesting that aliens have taken over the Devil's roll. What do you think? Please read the following statements from Ufologists and paranormal researchers:

JOHN A. KEEL - Author of "Mothman Prophesies" and other books on UFO phenomena.
"The UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old demonological phenomena."

RAYMOND FOWLER - Author of 5 books on UFOs.
"I [have] watched in dismay as a number of respected UFO researchers moved from a physical to a parapsychological interpretation of the bizarre UFO phenomena... Now, I am being forced to reexamine the UFO phenomena in light of its apparent paraphysical nature."

DR. JACQUES VALLEE - Prominent UFO researcher.
"We are dealing with a yet unrecognized level of consciousness, independent of man but closely linked to the earth...I do not believe anymore that UFOs are simply the spacecraft of some race of extraterrestrial visitors. This notion is too simplistic to explain their appearance, the frequency of their manifestations throughout recorded history, and the structure of the information exchanged with them during contact."
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"an impressive parallel can be made between UFO occupants and and the popular conception of demons."
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"The 'medical examination' to which abductees are said to be subject, often accompanied by sadistic sexual manipulation, is reminiscent of the medieval tales of encounters with demons. It makes no sense in a sophisticated or technical or biological framework: any intelligent being equipped with the scientific marvels that UFOs possess would be in a position to achieve any of these alleged scientific objectives in a shorter time and with fewer risks."

LYNN E. CATOE - Senior bibliographer for publicaton listing over 400 pages of UFO literature in 1969.
"A large part of the available UFO literature is closely linked with mysticism and the metaphysical. It deals with subjects like mental telepathy, automatic writing and invisible entities as well as phenomena like poltergeist manifestations and "possession". Many of the UFO reports now being published in the popular press recount alleged incidents that are strikingly similar to demonic possession and psychic phenomena..."

DR. PIERRE GUERIN - Scientist with the French National Council for Scientific Research.
"[UFO] behavior is more akin to magic than to physics as we know it."
"...the modern UFOnauts and demons of past days are probably identical."