UFOs Are Same as Angels From the Bible, US Congressman Suggests

Days after legislator Anna Paulina Luna publicly said that the origin of UFOs is interdimensional, another member of the House of Representatives made a statement to the same effect. US Congressman Eric Burlison also stated that UFOs are the same as Angels.

In this case, it is Eric Burlison, representative of Missouri’s 7th congressional district, who when interviewed for That UFO Podcast about the latest revelations and legislative efforts to provide more transparency to the issue of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs), left speechless at his interlocutor.

In David Grusch’s report, you can read that one of the theories about what we are finding is that they are extradimensional or interdimensional beings. That is, if we live in a three-dimensional environment, we are being visited by something from a higher dimension,” said Burlison.

And it’s not that they are necessarily traveling towards our world. If they are from a different dimension, there is a difference in time and space, and distance becomes irrelevant at that point. That’s why I think the probability is low that they are beings from an alien race from another planet light years away,” he added. “It would be a long way to go to get here and then crash their ships .”

The extradimensional theory, on the other hand, is more probable and more intriguing to me. But I still have to see more to believe that it is correct,” he continued.

Subsequently, and to argue in favor of the interdimensional or extradimensional origin of UFOs, Burlinson went back to the hypothesis of ancient astronauts and its biblical aspect.

“In a lot of different ancient scriptures, including the Bible, that’s the way God’s messengers or angels are described. Anywhere the word angels is used, to me they are mentioning extradimensional beings,” he said.

It should be noted that Burlison, like his colleague Luna, was another of those who attended the classified UAP briefing that took place on January 12.

Similarities Between Depiction of Angels in The Bible and UFOs

Both angels and UFOs are most frequently portrayed as capable of flight. Biblical passages often specifically reference an angel’s wings (Revelation 8:13), allowing them to swiftly travel between Heaven and Earth. Similarly, UFOs demonstrate advanced technology for aerial mobility that surpasses any known manmade aircraft.

Artistic depictions also connect the two—hovering effortlessly in place despite lacking visible means of support and propulsion. This feat seen in artistic renderings mirrors many recent claims surrounding close-range UFO sightings.

The view from above also features prominently for God’s eye-covered angels (Revelation 4:6) and UFOs with underside-mounted lights that clue their silent, sweeping surveillance across the landscape. Like angels keeping watch from on high, UFOs seem to observe humanity’s activity down below.

Therefore, one may speculate whether our interpretation of angels arose from primitive glimpses of advanced, flying technology later realized more fully as UFOs. Or perhaps UFOs represent modern manifestations of angels revealing themselves selectively throughout history. In either case, the timeless attributes of Heaven’s winged messengers continue inspiring technological innovations that humanity struggles to comprehend. Yet their divine origins and purposes likely extend far beyond what our science can currently conceive.

The Biblical Angel-UFO Connection: Ancient Texts Reexamined

The suggestion that UFOs and biblical angels represent the same phenomenon is not new — it has been a recurring theme in both academic theology and alternative research for decades. The Hebrew word “malakh” (מַלְאָךְ), typically translated as “angel,” literally means “messenger” or “one who is sent,” with no inherent supernatural connotation. Throughout the Old Testament, these messengers appear suddenly, travel in vessels described as wheels of fire, columns of cloud, and chariots of light, and deliver information or warnings before departing as abruptly as they arrived. The descriptions in Ezekiel 1 — wheels within wheels, living creatures with four faces, a crystalline firmament — bear a striking resemblance to modern UAP witness accounts when read without theological preconceptions.

Congressman Tim Burchett of Tennessee, who has been one of Congress’s most vocal advocates for UAP transparency and has participated in multiple congressional hearings on the topic, went further than most elected officials are willing to go by suggesting the beings associated with UAPs may be the same entities described in religious scripture. This statement aligns with testimony from former intelligence officials who have suggested that some UAP occupants may be “interdimensional” rather than strictly extraterrestrial — beings that can move between different states of reality in ways that our current physics cannot explain but that ancient peoples may have interpreted through the lens of their religious frameworks.

Congressional UAP Disclosure: What Lawmakers Are Actually Saying

The congressional interest in UAPs has intensified dramatically since the 2017 New York Times report revealed the existence of the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). Since then, lawmakers have pushed for increasingly formal disclosure mechanisms, resulting in the establishment of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) and multiple classified briefings for members of Congress. Representative Anna Paulina Luna’s public statement that UAPs have an interdimensional origin — not merely extraterrestrial — represented a significant departure from the standard government framing of UAPs as potential foreign adversary technology.

The convergence of religious interpretation and scientific investigation around the UAP phenomenon reflects a broader shift in how serious researchers and government officials are approaching the question. When decorated military officers describe encounters with objects that defy known physics, when former intelligence insiders describe crash retrievals of non-human craft, and when elected representatives begin invoking biblical frameworks to explain what has been observed, the phenomenon can no longer be comfortably contained within any single explanatory box. Whether the interdimensional beings described by modern UAP witnesses are the same as the angels, Watchers, and divine messengers of ancient texts remains an open question — but it is increasingly one that Washington is taking seriously.

Religion, Science, and the UAP Question: Why the Intersection Matters

The willingness of elected officials to invoke religious frameworks when discussing UAPs marks a significant cultural shift. For decades, mainstream political discourse treated UFOs as a fringe topic — something to be dismissed or deflected with references to weather balloons and swamp gas. The Congressional hearings of 2023, which featured decorated military officers testifying under oath about encounters with objects that defied known physics, fundamentally changed that dynamic. When former intelligence officer David Grusch testified to Congress that the US government was in possession of non-human craft and biological material, the question was no longer whether something unusual was happening — but what it was.

Into that question, the religious dimension enters naturally. Humanity has always understood its relationship with the cosmos through the lens of the sacred — and if non-human intelligences are genuinely interacting with our world, every major religious tradition has something to say about what those beings might be. The Congressman’s suggestion that UAP occupants may be the angels of biblical tradition is provocative, but it sits within a serious scholarly conversation that includes theologians, philosophers of religion, and physicists. If these beings operate outside normal spacetime constraints — appearing and disappearing, moving without apparent propulsion, communicating through non-verbal means — then “interdimensional” may be the most accurate scientific descriptor available for what ancient people called divine.