The Vatican (Holy See) is the sovereign city-state and seat of the Catholic Church. It appears in UAP discourse primarily through unverified claims that the Catholic Church holds evidence of non-human-intelligence.
david-grusch’s 2023 congressional testimony alleged that pope-pius-xii knew of a 1933 UFO crash near Milan and backchanneled information to the U.S. government, which took possession after WWII. The claim resurfaces in the-age-of-disclosure (2025), where a former CIA official reportedly cites Vatican knowledge of NHI.
The Vatican does not engage publicly with UFO/UAP claims. The vatican-observatory has a stated policy of avoiding the topic in media due to uap-stigma (see guy-consolmagno). Italian-press headlines about “Holy See opens to UFOs” trace to a parish “Cultural Wednesdays” series at St. Anne’s, not an official Holy See engagement.