Are UFOs Interdimensional Beings? A Bible-Based Investigation Into Aliens and the End Times

On an otherwise quiet Sunday night in 1938, details of a Martian invasion came over the airwaves and into American homes.

As announcers described a horrific scene in Grover’s Mill, New Jersey, listeners across the nation panicked. New Jersey residents fled their homes, jammed local highways, and begged the authorities to distribute gas masks. Americans everywhere braced for impending doom.

The panic was real, but the invasion was not. What listeners heard was not hard news but a radio drama by Orson Welles’ theater group. The presentation that evening was of the H.G. Wells classic, War of the Worlds—a rendition so convincing that some were rumored to have committed suicide upon hearing it. The frenzy spawned a Federal Communications Commission investigation and prompted networks “to be more cautious in their programming in the future.”

As already shown, we Earth-dwellers are fascinated by the mysteries of angels and demons. We are equally curious about extraterrestrials and alien abductions. The preoccupation is not a strictly modern one, either. Ancient peoples, separated by seas and other natural barriers, developed common myths, artifacts, and hieroglyphics, not only about otherworldly giants, gods, and goddesses, but also about “astronauts.”

How is this possible? The answer, I believe, is common origins. We have studied the biblical and historic origins of angelic and other supernatural encounters and storylines. Extraterrestrial encounters have similar origins. Human interest in the subject seems to be inherent, so even those who reject the supernatural and the Bible remain intrigued by “what’s out there.”

Millions plunk down twenties for an alien movie and some popcorn. They pay to be wowed by thought-provoking tales and mind-blowing special effects. Whether they realize it or not, the originator of both is God, and their curiosity reveals their undeniable connection to their Maker.

Alien? Or Extraterrestrial?

First Corinthians 15:40 says, “There are also celestial bodies and terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.” We humans are terrestrial (earthly) creatures. The terms alien and extraterrestrial are interchangeable. The real question is whether extraterrestrials are truly “men from Mars,” or interdimensional heavenly creatures with knowledge that we don’t yet possess.

Aliens And Nephilim

Every layer of our study returns us to biblical foundations. Alien study takes us to Genesis 6 and 11, where angelic watchers fathered the giant Nephilim. These creatures from “another world” possessed advanced knowledge and powers unknown to humans.

When they intermingled with women and created a hybrid race, they taught humans how to do things only God and angels should have known about, such as how to build great pyramids that aligned with the stars, and a tower that was able to reach Heaven.

As a matter of fact, I believe the reason Nimrod was able to begin construction on the tower, besides the fact that everyone spoke the same language and therefore understood one another’s speech, was that the secrets of the watchers were written down before the flood, seemingly lost because of the flood, but then discovered after the flood.

Some texts say that Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, discovered the secrets of the watchers written on a rock, transcribed them, and sinned as a result of them. He then kept the rock to himself to avoid Noah being angry with him. My gut feeling is that both Noah and Nimrod found out about the rock. I believe this is why Noah left Cainan’s name out of the genealogy of Shem in Genesis 11, which would eventually be recorded by Moses for the benefit of all the readers who would follow him.

Luke, when recording his Gospel account, includes Cainan’s name simply due to the fact that his account was passed to him from eyewitnesses and ministers of the Word. Luke, a Greek, faithfully recorded what was delivered to him so his account would be orderly. In other words, Luke would not have had any reason to exclude Cainan, unlike Noah, who had ample reasons to do so. Nimrod would then be the beneficiary of Cainan’s discovery because celestial knowledge was essential to him in venturing out to build the tower at Babel.

The watchers’ sin sparked human curiosity. As the angels came down to Earth, human creatures desired to go up. So they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth” (Genesis 11:4). Their intention was a perversion of what Jacob saw in a dream on his way to Padan Aram:

…[Jacob] took one of the stones of that place and put it at his head, and he lay down in that place to sleep. Then he dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven; and there the angels of God were ascending and descending on it (Genesis 28:11-12)

That was no ordinary ladder! The version inspired by the fallen watcher angels and their Nephilim offspring would be a tower that no human could have conceived or built, not without celestial influence and technology. In other words, no human could survive building or climbing it without technological assistance including some type of breathing apparatus to sustain them at cosmic altitudes!

This, I believe, is where the human fascination with aliens began. Images of ancient “astronauts”—creatures wearing helmets and gas masks—began to appear across cultural and geographical boundaries. These artifacts showed that humans were exploring new territory that God had not charted for them.

Occultists and pagans would say that they opened up their “third eye” to know unseen realms and realities.

If what I and others understand about Genesis 6 and 11 is accurate, these ancient humans learned about interdimensional travel and portals, topics still largely unsolved in our day. Humankind had gotten ahead of itself. In the end, this was not headed anywhere good because they had the advanced means necessary to accomplish their ends. So God stopped them.

The Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. And the Lord said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they pro-pose to do will be withheld from them. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth (Genesis 11:5-9).

Ancient Mayan Stone Figure

Ancient Mayan Stele depicting Helmet with Connected Hose

Aztec Art depiction of Helmeted Human or Creature

Sumerian Glyphs of Annunaki (Interplanetary Creatures)

Big and Smart

The Nephilim weren’t just big. They were smart, with at least half the super-intelligence of their celestial fathers, as well as access to heavenly storehouses of advanced knowledge. Angelic watchers knew how to travel interdimensionally and how to transform themselves. Many believe they taught the Egyptians how to build pyramids and how to align them with celestial bodies and markers. “The Great Pyramid’s north-south axis is aligned to within three-sixtieths of a degree of true north-south. …This alignment is more accurate than that of the Meridian Building at the Greenwich Observatory in London, which deviates from true north by nine-sixtieths of a degree.”

Another ancient people, the Nazca, etched massive drawings and patterns into the Peruvian high desert. Some lines are 30 miles long, and some images of plants and animals are as large as the Empire State Building! An American professor, Paul Kosok, called the 310-square-mile stretch of high desert “the largest astronomy book in the world.” Some dispute Kosok’s assertion of advanced Nazca knowledge, but the perfection and precision of these engravings are hard to explain otherwise.

The ancients had some very advanced technology. In many ways, we’re still trying to catch up!

Nazca Lines

Ancient Egyptian “Helicopter Hieroglyphs?

Towers, Technology, and Portals

The Tower of Babel was as much about technology as it was about a physical structure. As a material tower, it had to overcome serious logistical hurdles. For one, humans accustomed to sea level can have difficulty breathing at elevations of 7 feet; few can handle elevations of 12,000 feet for more than an hour. No mortal human can breathe at heavenly altitudes, period. To survive such breaches of the earth’s atmosphere, we need spacesuits and oxygen sources.

There is yet another challenge: When God said, “Let there be light” (Genesis 1:3), which is the faith-based correlation to the Big Bang Theory, He never said, “Light, stop.” Thus, the universe has been expanding ever since, which has been confirmed by scientists. How then could a physical tower and its builders keep up with this expansion?

I propose that the top of the tower would have to be a portal—an inter-dimensional passageway into otherwise unreachable realms.

“Portals?” you ask. “Aren’t they fictional?”

Yes and no. As imaginative as science fiction is, it must have some basis in reality. Have you been following the story of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near the Swiss-French border? Built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), this massive particle accelerator operates under a veil of secrecy that sparks endless speculations. Much of the concern involves the machine’s (real or imagined) potential to open portals, and thus wreak havoc in the universe and our world. CERN has denied these possibilities.1

Strangely enough, the god Shiva is commemorated by a statue on the CERN campus. Remember that Shiva is the Hindu god of destruction. In addition, Harvard theorist Lisa Randall, author of the book Knocking on Heaven’s Door, is among those who believe that an extra dimension abuts our own. She also believes that the LHC will lead to “inroads” on the subjects of “space-time symmetry and whether there are extra dimensions.” This is what I mean when I say that the Tower of Babel was about technology. I believe it was about portals into other parts of the universe.

Portals are a popular subject in science fiction, but where did the idea originally come from? In my opinion, its origins are biblical. Anytime you see portals in fiction, they resemble revolving tubes or spirals. Could these possibly be the whirlwinds described in Scripture? God spoke to Job out of a whirlwind (Job 38), but what does a whirlwind have to do with God’s voice? Is it possible that His voice reached Job through a portal? In 2 Kings 2:1-12, Elijah was taken up to Heaven in a whirlwind. Was he transported through the heavens by way of a portal, I wonder?

Based on what Nimrod was trying to accomplish in Genesis 11, it is possible that our fascination with portals can be traced to the watchers in Genesis 6 and the building of the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11. Can I prove it? No. But I believe the possibility is worth exploring!