Bizarre videos from President Trump’s latest batch of UFO disclosure files led to a host of speculation about the phenomenon’s origins — with some insisting they’re proof of biblical legends, while others dismissed them as little more than balloons or lens flares.
Comments flooded social media comparing the wacky videos to angels and demons after they were released Friday, and some online posters claimed they were winged creatures and fiery wheels that appeared in the likes of the Book of Ezekiel.
Among the most intriguing videos was one filmed over a body of water in June 2020, which captured a shapeshifting blob apparently hovering near a US military installation.
The object appeared to be trailing a tail beneath it, and had a protrusion on one end that some described as an angel’s wing.
“Out of all the newly released files, this one is easily the wildest,” one X user wrote. “The object almost appears humanoid, with visible arms and legs. The real question is what speed is this thing flying at?”
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.”
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