By Paul Thigpen – Are we on Earth alone with God and the angels in this vast universe? Do we humans share the cosmos with any other intelligent forms of life created by God? The Catholic Church has made no formal, authoritative pronouncements on the existence, or even the possibility, of extraterrestrial life.
Meanwhile, stories of alien abductions or other close encounters have multiplied. New ETI based religious traditions have emerged, while some have concluded that ancient pagan myths about the gods, and even biblical accounts of angelic beings, actually refer to creatures who visited Earth from other planets. Others now look for alien saviors to come down from the heavens. Many non-Christians insist that any public revelations of ETI would disprove the Christian faith.