Diana Walsh Pasulka is a religious studies professor whose research explores the intersection of historical religious events and modern UFO phenomena. She transitioned from studying Vatican archives regarding levitating saints to investigating alleged UFO crash sites alongside high-level government scientists.
Pasulka suggests that a new religion is emerging around the technology and mystery of unidentified aerial phenomena. Throughout the conversation, she emphasizes the historical continuity between ancient angelic encounters and contemporary alien reports. While documenting these extraordinary events, she maintains an academic skepticism, warning against the pervasive disinformation campaigns used by government agencies to shape public belief.
Ultimately, her work highlights how extraordinary experiences continue to influence human spirituality and technological aspirations across centuries.
Diana Pasulka distinguishes between her role as an academic and her personal perspectives. As a religious studies professor, she emphasizes that she does not academically advocate for belief in Christianity, Buddhism, or UFOs. However, she openly discusses several core personal beliefs and stances throughout the podcast of the Why Files:
Personal Faith and Life After Death
- Christian Faith: She identifies as a Christian and approaches extraordinary phenomena through that framework.
- Near-Death Experiences: She explicitly states that she believes people genuinely have near-death experiences.
- Openness to Unexplained Data: When presented with unexplainable data, such as university archives documenting children’s past-life memory claims, she states that she refuses to dismiss unexplained data simply because it falls outside conventional frameworks.
- View on Mortality: Aligning herself with Socrates, she views death calmly: if an afterlife exists, she looks forward to meaningful conversations, and if not, it will be like deep sleep. In the meantime, her primary focus is fulfilling her duties toward her children and students.
The UFO Phenomenon and Disinformation
- The Reality of the Phenomenon: She believes that non-human contact phenomena and extraordinary aerial events are real and genuinely happening.
- Emerging Modern Religion: She believes a new digital religion is actively forming around UFO beliefs and extraterrestrial narratives.
- Deceptive Nature: She believes the intelligence behind the phenomenon exhibits deceptive qualities and warns against attempting to summon or interact with extraordinary entities.
- Government Disinformation: She believes the government actively conducts sophisticated disinformation campaigns to shape public belief, manipulate disclosure narratives, and control media storylines.
Human Consciousness, AI, and Social Media
- Innate Spiritual Sense: She believes every human being is born with an internal “spiritual sense” and capacity for deep reflection.
- Social Media as a Contender for the Antichrist: She believes AI-driven social media platforms alter brain chemistry and destroy the human spiritual capacity, describing social media as a primary candidate for the Antichrist.
Historical Visionary Events
- Historical Apparitions: She believes in historical visionary events such as Our Lady of Guadalupe and Garabandal. She also considers sworn court records regarding historical levitating figures (such as Saint Joseph of Cupertino) to represent authentic, unexplainable historical data rather than mere church fabrications.
