Br. Guy Consolmagno SJ is a Jesuit Brother and planetary scientist; former director of the vatican-observatory. In late 2025 OSV News reporting (see src-catholic-filmmaker-vatican-ufo-2026-04), he articulated the observatory’s policy of declining UFO-related media engagement to avoid association with charlatans — a notable institutional artifact of uap-stigma.
“Sadly, having been burned in the past, we’ve made the decision at the Vatican Observatory to simply avoid talking about the topic at all. We simply can’t afford to be associated with it.”