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The New Atlantis asks Who Wants to Believe in UFOs?—and Nephilim giants

Clare Coffey wrote an article titled Who Wants to Believe in UFOs? for The New Atlantis—“The purpose of The New Atlantis is to offer clarity and guidance at a moment when we seem to be losing confidence in one of the pillars of modern civilization. It is our hope to help us all — as citizens, scientists, policymakers, and human beings — to deal more wisely and more creatively with both the burdens and the blessings of modern science and technology.”

I must say I’m more interested in how Nephilim got looped into this: especially when the article notes, “A duo of New York Times articles in December 2017 is as good as any starting point to mark. One piece discussed Navy pilot encounters with aerial objects that accelerated and maneuvered in ways that should have been impossible. The other detailed a shadowy alien-investigation program inside the Pentagon, headed by Luis Elizondo, supported by Senator Harry Reid, and involving military–industrial complex giant Robert Bigelow.”

Yes, discredited New York Times articles about a guy, Elizondo, who made a living by being professional manipulator as an intelligence agent and who made his entry into the public world of making money for his retirement by merely asserting that he headed a supposed program that was just an, “activity” like a hobby, etc., etc., etc.

Don’t get me wrong, Coffey does on to note, “The articles felt explosive, but weren’t. Or perhaps the opposite: the articles may have been objectively socially explosive in the way they re-positioned UFOs in public discourse, but the emotional catharsis and epistemic breakthrough of an open, public declaration by the powers that be that they’re here was once again postponed.”

It was just another stinking layer of a misinfo and discinfo onion.
In fact, Coffey notes, “Nevertheless, after the 2017 articles, history continued to repeat itself without really rising to the level of either tragedy or farce.”

And I wrote the book Fifty Shades of Gray Aliens so I’ve seen quite enough of such stuff.
Coffey notes:

The TV show Ancient Aliens is both an early sign of the coming shift from the explorer to the esotericist model, and, in the final analysis, a piece of explorer media. Like the esotericists…Ancient Aliens is fascinated by ancient texts and global myth.

But unlike the esotericists, the explanation for everything is, in the end, a spaceship.

Pyramids? Built by spaceships. Strange carvings on a crumbling megalith depicting a descending god? Guy in a spaceship. A flaming wheel appearing to the prophet Ezekiel? Classic misidentified spaceship.
It’s the same in pop-Nephilology—which is un-biblical neo-theo sci-fi tall-tales: Pyramids? Built by fallen Angels and/or Nephilim. Strange carvings on a crumbling megalith depicting a descending god? fallen Angels and/or Nephilim guys. In fact, spaceships fallen Angels and/or Nephilim getting one over on God since he wanted to be rid of Nephilim but failed since He missed that loophole—or, something.

Coffey notes:
In 2012, former policeman David Paulides started publishing a book series called Missing 411, claiming that unexplained disappearances in National Parks and the North American wilderness shared certain seemingly irrelevant but predictable characteristics (near granite or near water) and should be investigated as the result of some yet unknown phenomenon. His work has been roundly dunked on by data scientists,[endnote, “… which of course makes people with brainworms like mine more sympathetic than they were before”] but it has also been adapted into full-length documentaries.

A few years ago, a TikTok-er went viral offering a condensed version of Paulides’s work, which in the comments quickly got linked to major cave systems and speculation that Teddy Roosevelt created the National Parks in order to control, monitor, and limit contact with the horrible Things living in the caves.[endnote, “The National Parks Service are not, as they seem, a group of wholesome, outdoorsy, Dudley Do-Right civil servants. They are Tolkienesque Park Rangers of the North, they are The Dark Knight in hip waders, mounting a ceaseless and thankless watch to keep us mostly safe from the goblin menace. Frankly, I think that’s great and we should do something similar for postal clerks”]

In the diffuse, multi-site commentary surrounding these viral TikToks, someone, as I recall, suggested that this subterranean menace might be one and the same as the culprits behind an infamous UFO encounter known as the Hopkinsville Goblin incident.

This is the classic esotericist move: someone in the comments section explaining a famous UFO case with reference to a seemingly unrelated kind of alleged fringe phenomenon, filtered through some number of social media popularizers, reaching towards a theory that accounts for both.
Now, to the point of most interest to me as a Systematic Biblical Paranormologist:

Michael Heiser, a devout and orthodox evangelical Biblical scholar…did produce a UFO podcast up until his recent death, but his importance stems not from the hobby podcast but from his regular theological work.

Heiser’s 2015 book The Unseen Realm and subsequent publications were groundbreaking: they provided a simultaneously scholarly, readable, and recognizably Christian framework for acknowledging and interpreting the decidedly weirder parts of the Bible…
It would not surprise me if Heiser’s work were in an indirect way responsible for the rise of one of the most dominant esotericist UFO theories: the one about the Nephilim.

As I’ve oft noted, how anyone could read Heiser and not learn something would be beyond me. Yet, while Heiser was credentialed and experienced but not infallible, his Nephilology wasn’t biblical, and he tended to create more problems than he solved—search online for these articles for examples:

Review of Amy Richter and Michael Heiser on four Enochian Watcher related women in Jesus’ genealogy

Rebuttal to Dr. Michael Heiser’s “All I Want for Christmas is Another Flawed Nephilim Rebuttal”

I also included him in my book The Scholarly Academic Nephilim and Giants: What do Scholarly Academics Say About Nephilim Giants?

Actually, “the rise of one of the most dominant esotericist UFO theories: the one about the Nephilim” began, at least, as far back as the 1970s although Heiser may have given it a recent jolt and also critiqued some, “esotericist UFO theories” such as those of Zecharia Sitchin who he challenged to debate—and had that challenge open for a decade without Sitchin ever accepting.

Here are toms relevant Coffey statements:

Return of the Giants…
The Nephilim show up in Genesis, and, at much greater length, in the (mostly) nonbiblical book of Enoch — the Ethiopian Orthodox are probably the most significant church that does accept Enoch as canonical. In Enoch, we learn about certain sons of God, a rebel faction of God’s mysterious angelic watchers.

Instead of overseeing humans, as the good watchers do, this faction has given humans cosmetics, weaponry, sorcery — in short, initiating them into technological acceleration. In Genesis, the Nephilim — sometimes translated simply as “giants” — are the monstrous result of illicit procreation between these rebel watchers and human women.

They are not, to put it mildly, good actors. It is to destroy the Nephilim giants that God floods the world in the days of Noah.
In the Nephilim theory of UFOs, when we hear accounts of people abducted, taken up to the heavens, shown impossible physical capabilities, subjected to invasive reproductive procedures for unclear ends, given messages for humanity, confused and traumatized, what we are seeing is the watchers, the fathers of the Nephilim, up to their old tricks for a new society.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. (Though the theory is mostly about the watchers, the “sons of God” and fathers of the Nephilim, the term “Nephilim” has come to serve as a popular metonymy for anything relating to this story.)
The reference to, “Giants” begs these questions: What’s the usage of the vague, generic, subjective, multi-usage and modern English word “giants” in English Bibles? What’s Coffey’s or Heiser’s or any given users’ usage? Do those two usages agree?

That 1 Enoch aka Ethiopic Enoch is in the Ethiopian canon doesn’t make that one canon uniquely correct but rather, uniquely incorrect since 1 Enoch is Bible contradicting folklore from millennia after the Torah (see my book, In Consideration of the Book(s) of Enoch) in fact, that cannon also contains a text titled The Life of Adam and Eve which claims that when God created Adam, God commanded the Angels to worship Adam. It also contains 2 Enoch which claims that the reason God created was because God was alone and didn’t find peace within Himself.

The term. “angelic watchers” is fair enough for common parlance but it’s redundant since Watchers is just a Second Temple Era aka for Angels.

Note the MO of pop-UFOlogy-Nephilologists:

  1. “It is to destroy the Nephilim giants that God floods the world in the days of Noah.”
  2. God must have failed and missed the UFO loophole so the flood was much of a waste since, “the watchers” are “up to their old tricks.”

Well, of course they’re not since God didn’t fail, Jude and 2 Peter 2 tell us they were incarcerated, and there’s only a one-time fall/sin of Angels in the Bible.

Coffey concludes:

It is easy to see why the Nephilim became a popular speculative touchpoint for UFO esotericists.

The theory accounts for the high-handed way in which the UFO phenomenon seems to interact with its human targets, and provides a framework for many of the bizarre recurring motifs in UFO abductee accounts.

It saves the appearance (in the medieval astronomer sense) of UFOs as a trickster phenomenon, shrouded in illusion, “messengers of deception,” in [Jaques] Vallée’s phrase.

Not to mention—okay, mentioning—that the pop-Nephilology cottage industry is lucrative as h, e, double hokey sticks.

Yet, if you established a ministry on Nephilology, you’ll very, very soon run out of material—right after you quote the mere two sentences about them in the Bible—so, you’ll have to appeal to folklore from centuries, if not millennia, after the Torah and then vacuum up any and all cryptozoology. As Coffey put it, “It allows esotericists to rescue and revise the technological framework of the explorers, in which modern UFOlogy was born. It offers tantalizing possibilities that can be extended and combined with other stories and theories.”

He also refers to how think, “UFO beliefs are beginning to take on the trappings and form of a new religion…interest or belief in UFOs is purely and simply the search for a substitute for religion in a godless age.”

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