Aright, let's talk about that time Agobard, Archbishop of Lyon (c. 840) wrote against local superstitions, such as the idea of weather magic, including the belief of "aerial visitors on ships coming from the clouds." From his treatise "On Hail and Thunder."

Aliens?...

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In Chapter One, he relates:
"In these regions, nearly all men, noble and common, city and country dwellers, old and young, believe that hail and thunder can be produced by human will. For as soon as they hear thunder and see lightning, they say ‘a gale has been raised’."

"When asked how the gale is raised, they answer (some ashamedly, with their consciences biting a little, but others confidently, in manner customary to the ignorant) that the gale has been raised by the incantations of men called ‘storm-makers’, and it is called a ‘raised gale’."

And it's in Chapter Two in which he address the idea of the aerial ships.

"But we have seen and heard of many people overcome with so much foolishness, made crazy by so much stupidity, that they believe and say that there is a certain region, which is called Magonia, from which ships come in the clouds."

"In these ships the crops that fell because of hail and were lost in storms are carried back into that region; evidently these aerial sailors make a payment to the storm-makers, and take the grain and other crops."

"Among those so blinded with profound stupidity that they believe these things could happen we have seen many people in a kind of meeting, exhibiting four captives, three men and one woman, as if they had fallen from these very ships."

"As I have said, they exhibited these four, who had been chained up for some days, with such a meeting finally assembling in our presence, as if these captives ought to be stoned."

"But when truth had prevailed, however, after much argument, the people who had exhibited the captives, in accordance with the prophecy (Jeremiah 2:26) 'were confounded … as the thief is confounded when he is taken.'"

As seen, he is completely dismissive and regards these folk beliefs as not only stupid, but also evil and promoted by demons to lead people astray into superstition. He lists several other beliefs in the 16 chapters and ends on this note:

"So much stupidity has already oppressed the wretched world that Christians now believe things so absurd that no one ever before could persuade the pagans to believe them, even though these pagans were ignorant of the Creator of all things."

"On this account, therefore, we have brought this last incident into the midst to our discourse, because it is similar to the topic on which we are speaking and can give an example of inane seduction and true impoverishment of sense."

No doubt demons using an old trick today that they used in the past with the UFOs and aliens.

What's interesting to note is that the ships from the clouds were very much seen as real sea-going vessels, not like modern UFO aircraft sightings

This reveals that the demons aren't imaginative when it comes to this, using human knowledge for the deceit. We see Flying Saucers because we're accustomed to aircraft. In the past, they only knew of boats.

And likewise, these aerial visitors focus on crops and weather patterns.

The parallels of the past and today are fascinating to look at. The superstitions of the past of men making deals with weather-makers with magic is not dissimilar to the idea of conspiracies of aliens and their advanced technology.

Both emphasize man is helpless in comparison.

And of course this removes the specialness of man himself, and distracts from God Himself with the implications of greater or other beings, encouraging the focus on magic/technology of the "other" rather than on the providence of God.