UFOs AND GOD

Here's the decision. Amanda and Wes Llewellyn have made a documentary that takes a subject most Christians never touch — UFOs and alien abduction — and asks the one question that matters: how does any of this fit with faith in God? The film is fascinating, fast-moving, and built to make you think.

It's also, at times, genuinely unsettling. People describe being lifted from their beds. Some scary images of aliens and demons appear, along with brief alien nudity. For younger or sensitive children, that's reason enough to wait — hence the caution.

But for older children and adults, this is time well spent. The movie shows both sides honestly, gathers pastors, scientists, and theologians, and keeps returning to the gospel as its firm ground. If you can handle a few frightening moments and want a documentary that provokes real thought and points to Christ, this one is worth watching.

Millions of people across the world believe aliens are real — a belief lately fueled by the U.S. Navy footage the government released in 2017. Some believe aliens don't just exist but abduct humans, and a few tell harrowing stories of being taken from their rooms in the night.

Director Amanda Llewellyn is one of them. After discovering that her own encounters matched what many others described, she and her husband, Wes, set out across the United States to interview pastors, scientists, theologians, astronomers, and people off the street. Some have mind-blowing stories; others think it's all a hoax.

Four stars, and the movie earns them. It moves quickly, packing 94 minutes with visuals, interviews, and supporting facts, and it holds your attention from start to finish — there's so much information that it warrants close attention and maybe even a rewatch.

What lifts it above a curiosity piece is its honesty and structure. Both sides of the argument are shown clearly. Wes narrates through a series of guiding questions — from the simple ("What do we really know?" "What are we seeing?") to the profound question of how the UFO phenomenon fits with Christian faith. The result is both fascinating and terrifying: hearing people who genuinely believe they were abducted changes the atmosphere entirely. The film sets out to provoke thought and to point toward God, and it accomplishes exactly that.

UFOs and God comes firmly from a Christian worldview. Both Amanda and Wes are strong believers, as are most of the people they interview — among them the apologists Greg Koukl and Kenneth Samples and the astronomer Hugh Ross, founder of the Christian group Reasons to Believe. Strikingly, many of the people interviewed came to faith, or grew more serious in their walk with God, after their terrifying encounters.

Rather than sensationalize, the movie uses the Bible to explain and expand on the paranormal. Wes explores the possibility that these "aliens" are demons and asks what their intentions might be. Above all, he presses toward the real question: how does this phenomenon affect what we believe about God, and how do we interpret it biblically? He shares his own crossroads — his struggle over belief in both God and aliens — and lands on solid ground: whatever happens in this life or across the universe, Jesus loves us and died on the cross for our sins, and we can hold fast to that.

That anchor is the movie's gift. The documentary itself quotes the verse that gives it its heart: "Test everything; hold fast what is good" (1 Thessalonians 5:21). Whatever strange things fill the sky, the believer is called neither to gullibility nor to fear, but to discernment rooted in Christ.

Amanda and Wes Llewellyn took a subject built for tabloids and made something thoughtful, honest, and Christ-centered instead. A few frightening images mean younger children should sit this one out, but older kids and adults will find a documentary that provokes real thought and keeps returning to the gospel. So here's our answer, the same one we opened with: worth watching.