Alien secrets at Vatican? Expert claims Pope helped US procure UFO that crashed in 1933

A UFO campaigner has claimed that the Vatican is holding information about aliens and is hiding secrets in its archives. A report by The Sun quotes extraterrestrial lobbyist Steve Bassett as saying that documented evidence about UFOs is hidden in the Catholic Church's archives. Bassett claims that the church has "always known, has been aware of this subject going back perhaps hundreds and hundreds of years".

He added that the Vatican Library and archives hold "extraordinary" information about aliens and UFOs gathered through centuries. Bassett says that the church believes that aliens exist and cites religious paintings as proof of their belief. 

Notably, David Grusch, a United States Air Force (USAF) officer and former intelligence official, told a Congressional hearing in 2023 that the US possesses several pieces of "non-human spacecraft" and specimens of their dead pilots.

Grusch claimed to have seen documents according to which Mussolini's government recovered a spacecraft of non-human origin in 1933. He added that the then-Pope Pius XII helped the US procure this spacecraft in 1944 or 1945 during Franklin Roosevelt's presidency. He is "absolutely certain" that the government is hiding an unidentified aerial phenomenon. Grusch publicly claimed that at least 10 aliens were recovered from a craft that crashed on Earth.  

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However, there is a lack of evidence in the matter and Bassett says an investigation is needed. "Who exactly found it? What was the process in which it finally got to us? What was the role of the Catholic Church? How many people in our Government even knew about it at the point that Roswell happened?" Bassett asks.

Bassett says that if Grusch's claims are true, then it proves that the US government has long known about the existence of aliens. 

Experts working on UFOs and aliens are now trying to access Vatican Apostolic Archives, but that needs approval by the Holy See - the church's supreme governing body. Bassett says that is unlikely to happen until the US president formally discloses the existence of aliens.

Meanwhile, author and religious professor Diana Walsh Pasulka agrees the Vatican archives contain accounts of paranormal events. 

"The historical record is filled with these kinds of events, the people at the Vatican, they don't even know where to look; it's in their basements," she said.

The hunt for extraterrestrial life has fascinated human beings for a long time. Peru's 'alien mummies' have been in the news for months after UFO enthusiast and controversial Mexican journalist José Jaime Maussan presented around six of them at Mexico’s congress last year. They have three fingers and an elongated head.

Recently, it was found that these specimens have “straight” fingerprints which are not similar to that of humans. These mummies are 4-foot tall and are called “the Nazca mummies” because they were found in the Nazca region of Peru.