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Catholic filmmaker investigates UFO mysteries at the Vatican

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Summary

OSV News (Catholic News Service) reports on Catholic filmmaker sam-sorich’s in-progress documentary responding to a claim aired in the-age-of-disclosure that the vatican holds evidence of non-human-intelligence. The allegation, originating in david-grusch’s 2023 congressional testimony, holds that pope-pius-xii learned of a 1933 UFO crash near Milan and later backchanneled information to the U.S. government. Sorich’s team filmed at the bunker-soratte (a fascist-era complex with documented Vatican ties) in San Oreste, Italy, where the alleged craft’s technology was reportedly studied. The vatican-observatory declined interviews; former director Br. guy-consolmagno said the observatory’s standing policy is to avoid the UFO topic to avoid association with charlatans — a notable institutional artifact of uap-stigma. The piece also clarifies that an Italian-press “Holy See opens to UFOs” headline traced to a parish “Cultural Wednesdays” series at St. Anne’s, not an official Holy See engagement. The film, expected late 2026, exemplifies theological-uap-framing as a Catholic response to mainstreaming UAP disclosure.

Key Claims

  • the-age-of-disclosure features a former CIA official alleging the vatican holds evidence of non-human intelligence (not angels).
  • Per david-grusch’s 2023 testimony, pope-pius-xii allegedly knew of a 1933 UFO crash near Milan and backchanneled information to the U.S. government, which took possession after WWII.
  • sam-sorich’s production company glass-darkly-films is producing a Catholic-perspective UFO documentary for late 2026 release.
  • Filmmakers shot at the bunker-soratte in San Oreste, Italy; museum founder/mayor Gregory Paolucci confirmed a “real” Vatican-bunker connection but cannot link it to the alleged UFO.
  • Paolucci received a WWII-era Swiss Guard jacket from a member of Italian intelligence services when he established the museum.
  • The vatican-observatory declined all interviews; former director guy-consolmagno said the observatory deliberately avoids the UFO topic in media due to uap-stigma.
  • Pontifical-university professors told Sorich UFOs are “not serious” — comparable to “asking a zoologist about unicorns and dragons.”
  • Italian-press headlines about a “Holy See opens to UFOs” trace to a parish “Cultural Wednesdays” series at the Church of St. Anne organized by Pier Vincenzo Giudici (former deputy director of Vatican Radio) — not an official Vatican initiative.
  • Podcaster-researcher jesse-michels appears on camera at the bunker.
  • Investor brantly-millegan (ChurchPOP founder) frames the project as the Magisterium engaging contemporary culture.
  • Former military chaplain matthew-gray says highly credentialed military contacts told him the U.S. government has recovered crashed UFOs.

Notable Quotes

“It’s a wild claim.” — sam-sorich

“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.” — Br. Guy Consolmagno SJ

“To talk with an astrophysicist about UFOs is like talking to a zoologist about unicorns and dragons.” — unnamed pontifical-university professor

“UFO people are on the margins. They’ve been told that they’re crazy.” — Sam Sorich

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