Prominent Christian voices are now saying pastors were privately warned to prepare their congregations for UFO disclosure.
The claim began moving through religious media after Tennessee evangelist Perry Stone said in an April 27 video that pastors had been invited to hear from people connected to the U.S. government about what may be coming next. Alan DiDio, Bishop of Revival Nation Church, later said he was in the meeting. Tony Merkel, host of The Confessionals, said he had been in contact with the same intelligence-linked Christians for more than a year.
If their account is accurate, the story is bigger than a church rumor. It suggests that at least some religious leaders are being asked to interpret disclosure before the public receives the same information.
What Perry Stone Said
Stone did not name the officials or the pastors involved. But he described the warning in unusually direct terms.
“There were a large number of pastors that had been invited to go to a certain state to hear some men in the United States government and others share with them a concern that they had.”
According to Stone, the message was that upcoming disclosures could include claims about non-human craft, materials, and beings.
“What they’re about to release, from what we’re hearing, there’s going to be a release concerning aliens and concerning unidentified flying object spacecraft that some of the people who were in the meeting were telling us as pastors, you need to prepare your people and you need to get ready to answer them for what you’re about to hear being released.”
Stone said some of the material allegedly concerned “crafts that have been discovered that are not allegedly a part of our planet,” materials “not a part of our planet,” and “very strange reptilian looking creatures.”
The central concern, he said, was not only shock. It was theology.
“You’re going to have people who are going to say if there are galaxies and there are allegedly other creations in the galaxies, then the whole creation story is a myth, and you’re going to have people that’s going to apostatize and turn from the Christian faith because they have no answer for what they’re about to hear.”
Stone also said the opposite reaction was expected: non-Christians might panic and come to pastors asking whether the disclosures are real.
“They’re going to freak out and they’re going to come to pastors, ministers, and teachers and say, ‘What is this? Is this really real?’”
That is the part that matters for disclosure. The claim is not just that files may be released. It is that trusted community leaders may already be part of the public-conditioning layer around those files.
The Tennessee Meeting
The strongest corroboration came from Alan DiDio and Tony Merkel on a March 7 livestream hosted by Joseph Z.
DiDio described a small gathering in Tennessee:
“It seems like a half a dozen people were gathered in an Airbnb in the mountains of Tennessee discussing an investigation that’s going on in the United States government against crimes they have committed in the process of retrieving and reverse engineering technology from non-human intelligence.”
He added:
“The meeting also went forward to discuss the propaganda plan that was in place leading up to disclosure.”
Merkel gave more detail about the people behind the briefing. He said he had been in contact with them for more than a year.
“These guys are part of, let’s just say they’re Christians in intelligence operations and they are specifically geared towards trying to, initially, gather evidence and data on what’s actually going on behind the scenes within the disclosure community.”
Merkel framed their mission as religious preparation.
“It’s time for the church to be prepared and ready for what’s coming. There is, I believe, a great deception coming.”
The sources are not public documents. They are named religious figures describing private conversations. That limits what can be independently verified. But the fact that multiple attendees are now placing themselves in the room makes the story harder to dismiss as a single viral claim.
Why This Is Surfacing Now
The timing is not random.
President Trump has repeatedly promised a UFO and alien-file release. In late April, during an Oval Office event with Artemis II astronauts, he said pilots had seen “things you wouldn’t believe” and told reporters, “You’re gonna be reading about it.” Rep. Anna Paulina Luna has demanded 46 specific classified military UAP videos from the Pentagon and says she has seen evidence in a SCIF that leads her to believe “there are things we cannot explain.”
At the same time, senior political figures are increasingly using religious language to discuss the phenomenon. Vice President JD Vance told Benny Johnson in March:
“I don’t think they’re aliens. I think they’re demons anyway.”
Luna has taken a different route, repeatedly pointing people to the Book of Enoch and describing the phenomena as “interdimensional beings.” In a 2025 appearance with Joe Rogan, she said she had seen photographic evidence of aircraft she believed were not made by mankind and argued that some events may go back “before the time of Christ.”
Those comments do not all say the same thing. Vance frames the issue as demonic. Luna has pointed toward ancient texts and beings outside normal dimensions. Stone, DiDio, and Merkel frame the coming moment as a test for churches. But together they show the same shift: UAP disclosure is no longer being processed only as a military, intelligence, or aerospace question. It is being absorbed into America’s religious imagination.
The Religious Response Is Already Taking Shape
For years, the disclosure debate has centered on evidence: pilot testimony, radar data, infrared video, congressional hearings, whistleblower complaints, and classified program claims. That evidence still matters most.
But public reaction will not be shaped by evidence alone. It will be shaped by institutions people already trust: churches, political media, podcasts, family networks, and local leaders.
That is why the pastors story matters. If government-connected people are quietly briefing religious leaders before a release, then disclosure is already being managed through social channels that do not look like official government communication.
There are two ways to read that.
One is preparation. Churches are community institutions. If a major government acknowledgement unsettles millions of people, pastors will be asked to answer questions they did not create.
The other is narrative control. If religious leaders are told in advance how to interpret disclosure, then the public may receive not only files, videos, and testimony, but also a preloaded explanation for what those materials mean.
The Old Pentagon Problem
This religious framing is not new. Luis Elizondo, the former head of the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, has described officials inside the defense establishment who believed UAP were demonic and argued the government should not investigate them. In his account, that belief became an institutional barrier.
That is the danger in collapsing the phenomenon into theology too quickly. Radar returns, infrared signatures, pilot encounters, undersea reports, and alleged recovered materials remain physical claims. They require investigation.
A religious interpretation may help some people process the shock. It may also become a reason not to look.
That is the line disclosure now has to walk. Faith communities should not be blindsided by a historic release. But the evidence should not be buried under a ready-made spiritual label before the public has a chance to see it.
What Comes Next
The next move belongs to the government.
If the promised files are minor, the pastors story may become another sign of how rumor fills the vacuum created by delay. But if the release includes strong video, biological claims, recovered-material claims, or non-human intelligence language, Stone’s warning will look less like religious speculation and more like early evidence that disclosure preparation has already begun behind the scenes.
Either way, this is now part of the story. The public is not just waiting for files. It is watching governments, churches, and media figures compete to define what the files mean before they arrive.
Sources: Daily Mail · Perry Stone video · Joseph Z livestream with Alan DiDio and Tony Merkel · Newsmax · IBTimes UK · Daily Mail on Luna and the Book of Enoch · UFOUAP: Vance and religious pushback · UFOUAP: Luna’s 46-video Pentagon demand · UFOUAP: Trump Artemis UFO files statement