Throughout recorded history, human beings have claimed to make contact with supernatural powers from beyond this world. In Judeo-Christian and Islamic traditions these beings are known as angels; and they play an enormously important role in these traditions; including helping in creating the first human beings, revealing sacred scriptures & help in founding religions. They help in transporting prophets and seers, like Enoch and Muhammad, through the heavens to receive sacred wisdom. And they become warriors in the apocalypse, battling demons and helping to create a new earth.

Since 1947, a new extra-terrestrial power has appeared in literature, film, comics and religious scripture: The Alien. Abductees, artists, and religious visionaries claim that aliens perform all of the same actions historically attributed to angels! Aliens today found religions, transport humans to distant world, conduct genetic experiments, and, in films, attempt to destroy human civilization.

How do we make sense of these uncanny parallels? Are angels really supernatural beings from heaven, or something more?