Christians Must Address UFO Evidence, Defend Biblical View

When a recent UFO file dump reignited public curiosity, an earlier conversation with Allie Beth Stuckey popped back into view. In that 2023 interview she pressed Jeremiah Roberts and Andrew Soncrant of the Christian podcast Cultish on whether Christians should even be thinking about aliens and unidentified aerial phenomena. Their take was blunt and biblical: ignore the spectacle at your peril, but answer it with theology and reason. This piece revisits that exchange and the arguments those hosts still make about faith, culture, and the strange questions people are asking.

Allie didn’t waste time easing into the subject; she posed the question many viewers were already whispering. “I could see a lot of people listening to this and be like, ‘Well, that’s just too much for me. It’s kind of scary. It’s kind of overwhelming.’ … Why do Christians — why should Christians really care about this?” That prompt set the tone for a conversation that mixed pastoral concern with intellectual engagement.

The response from Roberts and Soncrant was straightforward: this is not a fringe curiosity you can quietly ignore. They argued the topic demands a Christian answer because it touches on creation, authority, and how the church responds when culture elevates a narrative. Shrugging off the debate cedes the field to secular commentators who will interpret whatever evidence surfaces through their own lenses.

Roberts framed the issue in cosmic terms: “Everything — all the creation, both visible and invisible — they’re created by Christ and for Christ,” says Roberts, “so we as Christians, we should have confidence that this whole discussion of aliens, demons, unidentified aerial phenomena exists in the universe that Christ is upholding by the word of his power, so that’s why this is something as Christians we can’t ignore.” That theological ground gives Christians both permission and obligation to engage.

Soncrant leaned on Scripture to sharpen the obligation, quoting 1 Peter 3:15: “But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.” He used that verse as a call to prepare rational, theologically coherent responses, not to stockpile conspiracy theories or retreat into fear.

“We need to be able to have a defense — a reasonable defense — for what we are seeing with this phenomenon,” Soncrant said, pressing the idea that Christians should build a case that can stand up in public discussion. The point wasn’t to win every argument but to prevent believers from being swayed by simplistic or sensational explanations that dodge hard questions about truth and authority.

Part of the concern the hosts raised is practical: when Christians step back from contemporary debates, they surrender the narrative. Soncrant warned that when believers “shrink back from popular culture,” they “end up letting the secular world interpret the evidences through their own presuppositions and come up with conclusions that are antithetical to the biblical worldview.” That leaves ordinary people with no Christian framing for extraordinary claims.

The conversation isn’t new for the hosts. Roberts shared that when they launched Cultish in 2018, Presbyterian minister Colin Samul reached out with a heads-up about cultural trends. Samul predicted “the whole UFO conversation showing up in the news on a regular basis” and urged them to “embrace” the subject in a biblical way so they could answer followers’ questions instead of being blindsided.

Since that nudge, Roberts and Soncrant have kept addressing the alien and UAP topics from a theological perspective, blending apologetics, cultural analysis, and pastoral concern. They aim to equip listeners to think biblically while staying rooted in God’s word and engaging the questions that keep surfacing in news cycles and on social media. Their method is simple: study Scripture, follow the evidence honestly, and speak into the public square without panic or surrender.