A group of scientists and researchers are seeking access to the Vatican Apostolic Archives to uncover information about UFOs and the paranormal, believing there may be traces amid the 50 miles of shelves holding everything from handwritten papal notes to presidential missives.
The decades-long effort gained momentum in 2023 following former U.S. intelligence official David Grusch’s congressional testimony alleging the Vatican’s involvement in an international cover-up of alien secrets. Grusch claimed Pope Pius XII “backchanneled” information to the United States about a crashed UFO recovered by fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.
“I don’t know where (Grusch) got this information,” Marco Grilli, secretary to the prefect of the archives, told Catholic News Service June 11.
Grilli said the archives had received emails inquiring about the veracity of Grusch’s claims but likened them to requests to read the personal letters of Pontius Pilate or the Virgin Mary.
“One can laugh at it,” he said.
However, findings like those reported in Diana Walsh Pasulka’s 2019 book “American Cosmic” suggest to UFO believers that the archives hold more than meets the eye.
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