A UFO investigator says his work examining hundreds of alleged alien-abduction cases led him to Christianity after repeatedly hearing that encounters ended when people called on Jesus for protection.
Joe Jordan, 72, works as a safety professional at Blue Origin’s rocket factory in Florida. He has spent 32 years investigating UFO reports and claims of extraterrestrial abductions.
Speaking to Our News Outlet, Jordan said he had reviewed approximately 700 alleged abduction cases. According to his account, people involved in the incidents reported that the experiences stopped immediately after they called on Jesus or God, with no further harm.
Jordan said the research persuaded him not only that a higher power exists, but also that some alleged extraterrestrial encounters could have a spiritual origin. That view has gained traction among some religious groups, whose members argue that reported aliens may actually be demonic entities.
“The way it changed my life is seeing that the power and the name and authority of Jesus Christ convinced me 100 percent that God is real, the Bible is real, Jesus was real,” Jordan said. “You call on him for help; he’s there for help.”
For decades, the US government has said it has found no evidence proving the existence of UFOs or alien life. That position remains unchanged as the Pentagon continues its widely publicized effort to release information about unidentified aerial phenomena.
As debate over possible alien contact continues, Jordan noted that even some secular researchers are expanding the terminology used to describe UFO reports. Instead of assuming every unexplained sighting is extraterrestrial, some are referring more broadly to “non-human” phenomena.
“They’re saying that what used to be always about extraterrestrial biological entities from other worlds, they’re now calling interdimensional, extradimensional, and ultradimensional,” Jordan said.
Joe Jordan told Our News Outlet that he has investigated roughly 700 alleged alien-abduction cases (Stock Image)
After three decades of investigation, Jordan said he believes the reported abductions have a demonic element. He claimed many cases began after an individual witnessed or participated in some form of occult activity.
Jordan said alleged abduction experiences often followed what he described as an opening to hostile entities through practices that the Bible condemns as contrary to God’s teachings.
“Every person that I found that unknowingly opened the door to the experience, they have been dabbling in the occult, the paranormal, even the UFO phenomenon itself,” Jordan said. “But that is what triggered the opportunity for them to be affected by this.”
“I had experiencers coming and saying that they had been taken aboard craft, things had been done to them,” he added.
The former UFO investigator, who later became a Christian, said he no longer believes these encounters involve physical beings traveling through space. Instead, he views them as spiritual entities from another realm that appear in the form of a UFO encounter.
“Nobody’s getting taken anywhere,” Jordan claimed. “This experience is a demonic vision, demonic spiritual visionary experience that’s given to them.”
Jordan began studying UFO reports in the 1990s after reading about the 1947 Roswell incident. In 1992, he joined the Mutual UFO Network, known as MUFON, where he worked as a field investigator and state section director.
MUFON has about 700 investigators across the United States and ranks among the world’s longest-running UFO research organizations. The group has gathered reports and purported evidence of extraterrestrial encounters since the 1960s.
A video released during the first wave of UFO files appeared to show a glowing object resembling an “eight-pointed star,” with uneven arms that some compared with a craft depicted in biblical accounts
Joe Jordan (pictured) has worked as a Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) field investigator since 1992
While many UFO researchers concentrate on unexplained sightings, Jordan directed his attention primarily toward people who said they had been abducted.
It was around this point that Jordan encountered a case that changed the whole course of his research, and his life.
The experiencer, named ‘Bill D,’ talked about an abduction experience which he described as dark and with satanic overtones.
He cried out, ‘Jesus, Jesus, help me!’ and reported to Jordan that the experience immediately stopped and he woke up in his bed.
Jordan said: ‘I thought, this just doesn’t make sense because all the leading researchers at the time in the early mid 90s were saying that these abduction experiences could not be stopped, but I had one that just said he had stopped it.’
Every UFO researcher Jordan said he has contacted claimed they came across cases where people had said a prayer, sang a hymn or called out to Jesus – and the experience stopped.
However, he claimed that UFO researchers never share such stories publicly, with one alleging that sharing the story would damage their standing in the UFO community.
‘For 30 years that I’ve been doing this, all we hear is cover up, cover up, cover up. That is supposedly from the government. The cover up [is] coming from the researchers themselves that we’ve been relying on for the truth!’ Jordan alleged.
Jordan explained that before he embraced Christianity, he starting working with MUFON as a ‘crystal-ball rolling’ New Age practitioner. However, a fellow investigator warned him that he was dabbling with sinister and dark forces.
‘I told her I got these crystals that protect me from this and that. She said, “I mean, real protection.” And then she handed me a Bible. In November ’96, I became a Christian,’ he recalled.
The idea that UFOs might be demonic has gained growing support in recent years. Vice President JD Vance said on a podcast in March, ‘I don’t think they’re aliens, I think they’re demons.’
Experts such as parapsychologist Hal Puthoff and ufologist Jacques Vallee have championed the demonic UFO hypothesis for decades.
