Even though Seraphim Rose was a convert to the eastern church, he did write a decent book that dealt with, among other things, the topic of UFOs entitled "Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future."
Writing in the mid-70s, when UFOs were becoming all the rage (as I remember so well, having grown up in the 70s-80s), Rose noted that the thirst for UFOs was just another anti-Christian religious phenomenon bound up with the modern world. Even though the modern world prides itself on abolishing religion, we are religious by nature and, once the Christian God is rejected, all sorts of other transcendental and mysterious beings will fill the void, and their meaning will be explained by the scientists, as SCIENCE is viewed as the only way to attain Truth.
As he put it, "Science fiction has given the images, evolution has produced the philosophy, and the technology of the 'space age' has supplied the plausibility for such encounters" in this new UFO-religion. He also noted that many of those adherents of this UFO-religious phenomenon, rather than thirsting after the Christian God, instead (quoting Jacques Vallee), have a "great thirst for contact with superior minds that will provide guidance for our poor, harassed, hectic, planet."
None of these adherents would believe that Christ can save us ....but these aliens can.
What he said back in 1975 I think still holds true today with regard to all this talk of extra-terrestrial encounters.
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“Detection [of alien life] might come in a decade or only in future centuries or perhaps never at all, but if or where it does, it will be useful to have thought through the implications in advance.” 
