Retired Green Beret Organised Secret UFO Meetings to Warn Pastors About 'Very, Very Creepy' Beings

A retired Green Beret has spoken publicly about the secret UFO meeting he helped organise to warn Christian pastors about what he describes as a 'sinister' belief system forming around extraterrestrial beings.

Paul Bock, a former US Army Special Forces soldier, told reporters he arranged the closed-door gathering in Tennessee in February to alert church leaders to what he calls a 'very, very creepy' spiritual deception that he believes is spreading among Americans.

Reports of a separate private briefing involving pastors emerged publicly in early May, when several Christian leaders spoke about alleged meetings with people described by attendees as having connections to the US government and intelligence community, ahead of a series of US government releases of previously classified UFO and UAP records that began in May.

Now Bock has stepped forward as one of the organisers, framing his warning not as a story about flying saucers but as a spiritual battle for the soul of Christianity itself.

The Secret Pastors' UFO Meeting That Sparked Alarm

The February gathering took place in an Airbnb rental near Nashville, organised by Bock alongside evangelist Tony Merkel and an unnamed associate. Among those in attendance were Bishop Alan DiDio of North Carolina, who described it as 'one of the strangest meetings I've ever been involved in during a quarter of a century of ministry,' and fellow pastor Joseph Zupetz, both of whom were in town for the National Religious Broadcasters Convention.

DiDio told reporters the session lasted roughly three hours and featured a slideshow presentation outlining what Bock and his team had uncovered during their research into UFO phenomena and their interpretation of its alleged connections to Scripture.

'These are Christian men who love God, who, in the process of their investigation, working within all areas of this phenomenon within the government, outside of the government, they uncovered some information they believe was concerning,' DiDio said. 'They shared with us that the church really needs to wake up to this reality.'

According to attendees, one of the more unsettling aspects of the meeting was the presentation of photographs Bock claimed to have obtained from a man he described as a 'psionic,' a person he said possessed paranormal abilities, whom he met after beginning his UFO research in 2022.

Bock said the images depicted what he described as 'hyperdimensional' creatures, including a squid-like being and a ghostly humanoid figure that appeared to exist outside the earthly realm. 'One looks like a humanoid figure. It's very ethereal. It looks like a spiritual type of thing. It's very different than what you'd think, in a sense, but also at the same time, very, very creepy.' Bock said.

Bock Warns of an Emerging UFO Belief System He Says Threatens Christian Faith

At the heart of Bock's warning is his conviction that a new belief system is coalescing around the idea that beings once worshipped as God or angels were actually 'nonhuman intelligences' that, according to Bock, encourages people to seek contact with alleged nonhuman intelligences for purposes including healing, secret knowledge and spiritual advancement. 'Do I think that it is leading many, many people astray right now? Absolutely,' he said.

Bock argued that this emerging UFO faith treats Jesus as just one teacher among many, encouraging followers to trust unnamed beings who bring their own message of contact, evolution and 'new knowledge.' 'I took the Christian perspective. I took the non-Christian perspective. This truly is deceptive. Nothing about this lines up with the word of God,' Bock claimed.

DiDio also cited surveys that he said showed belief in alien life was overtaking belief in God. However, publicly available polling does not support that comparison, a 2024 RealClear Opinion Research poll found that 56.9% of Americans said they believed in aliens, compared with 85.4% who said they believed in God.

He added that he had been told by sources that more significant UAP-related material could emerge by 2027, although he did not identify those sources or provide evidence for the prediction. DiDio said the prediction had increased his sense of urgency about how churches should respond.

Official Position on UAP Disclosures

Reports could not independently verify all of the details provided by Bock and the attendees, including the provenance and authenticity of the images he described.

The Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), which investigates UAP reports, has said that many UAP reports are resolved as commonplace objects or phenomena, including birds, balloons and unmanned systems, while other cases lack sufficient data for a determination. AARO has also said it has found no verifiable evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity or technology.

Bock has now detailed his warnings in his book The Disclosure Agenda, published Aug. 18, in which he lays out what he believes pastors heard during those secret sessions. Bock's claims remain unverified, but the story raises questions about how Christian leaders might respond to any future disclosure of evidence concerning UAPs.

It also raises a question for Christian leaders, how should they prepare their congregations to assess claims about UAPs and extraterrestrial life?

The accounts of the meeting have been corroborated by several attendees, but the extraordinary claims about extraterrestrial beings, alleged government knowledge and the photographs described by Bock have not been independently verified.