The latest release of UFO disclosure files by former President Trump sparked a surge of speculation, with the peculiar videos stirring debates on their origins. While some viewers claimed the footage supported biblical legends, others dismissed the phenomena as mundane, attributing them to balloons or optical illusions like lens flares.
Social media platforms were abuzz with users drawing parallels between these bewildering videos and mythical beings such as angels and demons. Released on Friday, the clips prompted some users to speculate that these mysterious objects resembled the winged creatures and fiery wheels depicted in texts like the Book of Ezekiel.
One of the most captivating videos, recorded in June 2020 over a body of water, showcased a shapeshifting entity seemingly hovering near a U.S. military site. This object, trailing what appeared to be a tail and featuring a protrusion that some likened to an angel’s wing, caught the public’s imagination.
“Of all the newly released files, this one stands out as the most astonishing,” shared an X user. “The object seems almost humanoid, with discernible arms and legs. The real enigma is, at what speed is this thing traveling?”
Many commenters were quick to draw comparisons between the mysterious figure in the video and an angel, further fueling the online discourse.
Commenters rushed to compare the image to an angel.
“This UFO looks almost like an angel,” a user responded, according to the Daily Mail. “Pretty amazing video.”
Another flagged by users was filmed over water by the US Indo-Pacific Command in June 2024 and showed another blob that appeared to be changing shapes as it moved.
That video was just the latest people compared to Ezekiel’s Wheel from the Book of Ezekiel — also known as Ophanim — which appeared to the biblical priest as a series of interconnected wheels covered in eyeballs.
Others drew parallels to Cherubim, winged creatures with multiple faces who also appear in the Book of Ezekiel.
Many of those comparisons were fueled by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL.), who was one of the leading UFO disclosure voices and in the weeks since the plans were announced has posted religiously-charged messages on social media.
On May 8 — the day of the first UFO disclosure release — Luna posted a picture of a winged Ophanim to X.
Almost a month earlier she posted “Read the book of Enoch” in reference to an ancient text some consider a lost Bible chapter, and which some UFO-believers say contains stories of ancient alien visitations.
The UFO comparisons to Christian imagery has even made into the Oval Office — with Vice President JD Vance speculating the strange things people have seen in the sky for decades were harbingers from hell itself.
“I don’t think they’re aliens. I think they’re demons anyway, but that’s a long discussion,” the veep told conservative podcaster Benny Johnson in March.
“Every great world religion, including Christianity, the one I believe in, has understood there are weird things out there. When I hear about extra natural phenomenon, that’s where I go to: The Christian understanding that there’s a lot of good out there, but there’s also evil out there.”
But many were less convinced of the phenomenon’s’ divine origin — with some arguing the images were likely little more than earthly objects.
“Those are literally mylar balloons, twisting in the wind,” one user wrote on X. “You can see them occasionally separate.”
Others pointed to known tech -ike experimental jetpacks.
“This is literally a guy wearing a jetpack,” one person wrote. “Of ALL of the videos in the release, this is by FAR the LEAST interesting and most easily explainable for anyone with more than two braincells to rub together.”
