Book Review: The UFO Deception

Father Spyridion Bailey’s The UFO Deception is a striking exposé of both demons and governments that tracks back to the first reported sighting of a ‘UFO’, which, for the purposes of this article, was 1933 in Scandinavia. Of course, UFO sightings go back much further than that, but the aim of this book is really to dispel modern interpretations of UFOs, which is that, if they are real, they must be aliens.

Please note: This is my first ever book review and I got the idea to read the book from Anthony of Westgate’s Substack, The Reversion. If you are interested in joining the book club, you can check it out here.

Father Bailey posits that 1) UFOs, if they are real, are not aliens but instead, are either the deceptive work of demons and that 2) governments are doing the deceptive work of a) covering up the UFOs or b) allowing the public to be so confused regarding the matter that no one can have a coherent conversation about them.

To that end, because Father Bailey is trying to prove both 1, 2a, and 2b, the book does get a bit confusing (or maybe that’s just me). The claim that UFOs are demons is loosely evidenced throughout the book by saying that no one (including governments, pilots, top scientists, etc) can explain the phenomena they are seeing when they have seen these UFOs (see Video 1). Most of the book focuses on the government's response to UFO sightings, and how media, Hollywood, and public figures push the narrative that aliens exist onto the general public.

Of course, Father Bailey is an Orthodox Christian. The entire book builds up his argument without getting overly religious until the very end of the book when he finally offers the Orthodox Christian perspective. And it is a good one. But if you are afraid of reading the book due to some fear of dogmatic faith, it really isn’t like that. That being said, if you are new to this side of the web, reading this book could be like jumping in a cold shower. I’m not Orthodox Christian (yet) and I found this book enjoyable.

Figure 1: Table of Contents, UFO Deception

Father Bailey questions a lot of ‘conventional’ wisdom ranging from how statistically impossible it is that life exists on Earth as well as the improbability of it existing anywhere else (see pg. 95), the absurdity of evolution (see Pg. 116), and how scientists use it for their own gain rather than ‘science,’ lies of NASA and the government, etc. But he starts the book closer to home.

You see, Father Bailey was well aware that UFOs were demons and that there was government coverup of UFOs way before (I’m assuming) he ever decided to write this book. However, he found himself in a predicament when he learned the most reliable witness of a UFO event was his actual wife. The first chapter was essentially his wife’s vivid childhood memory of a UFO sighting in 1979. In fact, this UFO sighting was witnessed by so many people it was in the news (see Pg. 13). Most of those people had no idea what they saw, just that they saw something completely abnormal to everyday life. And most of the people didn’t cry about aliens or UFOs or anything, they kinda just went back to normal living and forgot about the event entirely.

The problem with UFO sightings or alien abductions is that the sources range from being presumedly trustworthy (rational seeming people, like Military Commander Fravor) to presumedly insane (every other skitzo with an X account).

For anyone who wants to see it, see Video 1 below for the footage Commander Fravor saw when flying over the Pacific in 20204:

Video 1: The Tic Tac Object

If you come from the already decided position of conspiracy you automatically start to ask yourself, well is Fravor CIA? Is he the deceiver? i.e. you presume he is lying. Father Bailey (I am speculating because he doesn’t outright say this in the chapter) would posit that the UFO seen there is a demon or a government fake.

I’m of the position that I don’t really trust the government anymore and instead seem to get most of my news from skitzos, which has the effect of making you feel like you might be going insane. Is the earth flat? Is space actually fake? On top of that, each source has their own opinion based on their own subjective reality.

For example, if you believe in God, you believe you saw demons. If you believe in science, you believe you saw aliens. A third scenario is you may have gotten sexually assaulted, and you were so traumatized you might be hiding behind the idea that you got abducted by aliens without realizing it. If you are the NWO, you people to believe in aliens to unite them under one government.

I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world - Ronald Reagan in 1983 (pg. 35).

To me, what Reagan said is a perfectly reasonable thing to say if aliens exits. The question is do aliens exist? DO THEY EXIST?! lol.

Father Bailey sums it up nicely:

This is one of the central difficulties of the whole subject since there are so few hard facts that do not need some kind of interpretation, all conclusions will be highly subjective and dependent on opinion or intent. (pg. 30).

‘Opinion or intent.’ Like I said before, you see what you want to see but you know not what you are actually seeing. But Father Bailey shows that no matter what is happening, people are definitely seeing something. That is undeniable. Just look at the recent sightings in New Jersey. Those weren’t even UFOs. From the stuff I saw, they were all verifiably drones and some people just accidentally posted videos of airplanes, lol. And none of those fit the category of what was seen in the book, nor did they look like the familiar ‘Tic Tac’ object. That being said, everyone on social media saw UFOs. Regular media pushed the idea of ‘UFOs.’ Why? Impressions, views, clicks…. etc. etc. etc.

For at least eighty years (which is often described as the period of modern sightings), eyewitnesses have been giving accounts of their experiences, which include very similar details. (pg. 14).

Key words there: ‘very similar details.’ There is a noticeable consistency in the eyewitness reports across the years. This consistency lends credibility to the sightings.

…there have been at least two major investigations in the United States since 1945, and a similarly large one by the French government. The results of these investigations have not been fully disclosed…(pg. 14).

At this point, I fear I have written far too much already. As a Millennial recovering from severe brain rot, I just couldn’t get into some parts of the book enough which is a fault of my own and not Father Bailey. For example, the Carl Sagan stuff. Sagan was instrumental in promoting UFO myths into the general public but he died in 1996. I was a mere lad at that point.

Sagan was driven by an obsessive atheism that coloured everything he wrote. It is this atheism that insists that life must exist elsewhere on other planets because it cannot permit the possibility that the Earth and life here is in anyway unique. (pg. 79)

As a relatively new Christian, who is also new to conspiracy theories, I’m going to posit that we Christian’s could be doing the same exact thing. Forgive me, Father Bailey, if you read this because I am a huge fan:

Father Bailey was driven by an obsessive love for Christ that coloured everything he wrote. It is this Christian belief that insists that life must exist on planet earth because it cannot permit the possibility that God isn’t real.

On the one hand, when I read that Sagan was an atheist my brain somewhat turns off because I just don’t want to hear what Sagan would have to say. On the other hand, I feel like I have to allow myself to see through his brain in order to defeat him (but it is a dark place).

Sagan finds the argument for population control to achieve the ultimate goal of leaving the earth, like all those who propose such theories, he did not consider the programmed should start with him: he had five children from his three marriages. (pg. 87)

If the man is an atheist, why would he care about such things? But I do understand the point. I’m playing devil’s advocate and this review is about UFOs more than anything. The important part about the Sagan chapter is that for all his research and funding, he discovered nothing. He never heard or communicated with an alien. He wanted aliens to exist - we know that. But the chapter read like because he was an evolutionist, because he was an atheist, because he was a degenerate, we shouldn’t believe anything he says (and well, I do agree). The point I’m making is that, we could’ve just said he had no evidence for aliens despite dedicating his life to finding them, lol.

It does beg the question though - if there is no evidence for aliens, why do they keep promoting them into the public consciousness? Which I think is the whole point of the book. Is it because they worship Satan? Or is it because the world has already moved on from religion? Or is it because they worship Satan they want you to move on from religion?

I should make the very important distinction here: there is plenty of UFO sightings, however, there is no evidence for life outside of Earth, i.e., aliens. Therefore, if we cannot prove UFOs are aliens, and we cannot prove that aliens even exist - what then, are UFOs?

Apologies if this is incoherent. I admit, I’m losing the plot a bit here. People like Jay Dyer, and Father Bailey are much better writers than I especially because I myself am still mired in the muck of modernity. I don’t have a rock solid, concrete worldview at this point in my journey.

Even though there appears to be no evidence for aliens, there is for sure evidence for UFOs. Remember UFOs do not equate to aliens, they are simply ‘Unidentified flying Objects.’ Whatever they are doesn’t matter to the government or Hollywood who uses them to promote life on other planets, evolution, and atheism. Their motives remain unclear.