The Deceptive Anti-Biblical Messages of “Aliens” as Reported by Abductees and Contactees
Part 6
So far you’ve seen the opinions of both a few Christian and a few non-Christian researchers, and you can take or leave their opinions as you will. But now we’re going to look at the actual messages of these “alien” entities, from what contactees and abductees themselves say the aliens are telling them, and let’s see what you think.
I want to preface by saying that there have been historical changes in the aliens’ points of origin.
In the 1950s, the entities typically told the contactees of the day that they were from Mars and Venus. But we’ve since sent probes and satellites there and found that these planets are hostile to supporting life – at least the humanoid type of life they were claiming to be.
So 50 years later, the entities now claim they originate from far more distant places in other star systems, like Zeta Reticuli which is 39 light years away, or even in other galaxies like Andromeda, which is 2.5 million light years away.
Now, their story has now changed to these far away places, in which we once again can’t verify their claims. This fact alone already lends itself to believing there’s deception involved in this phenomenon.
To quote from Dr. Carl Sagan’s book “Intelligent Life in the Universe”,
“What might an advanced extraterrestrial civilization want from us? One of the primary motivations for the exploration of the New World was to convert the inhabitants to Christianity — peacefully if possible — forcefully if necessary. Can we exclude the possibility of an extraterrestrial evangelism?”
– Dr. Carl Sagan, “Intelligent Life in the Universe” pg. 463 (emphasis added)
Dr. Sagan here raises a very astute question – and the more researchers and authors out there study the reports of alien abductions and encounters, the more this question comes up – and the argument for an affirmative answer becomes clear.
So keep this question in mind, Are “extraterrestrials” intentionally evangelizing people to an alternate spirituality?
As an introduction, secular researcher Thomas Bullard points out in the Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters that there is a definitive common pattern to the classic abduction scenarios.
“However the story emerges, the accounts seem remarkably alike…
1. Capture…
2. Examination…
3. Conference. A meeting, lecture, or schooling session follows…
4. Tour…
5. Other-wordly Journey…
6. Theophany. The witness meets a divine being or has a religious experience.
7. Return…
8. Aftermath…”
Thomas Eddie Bullard, quoted in Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters, Ronald D. Story, Editor
It’s interesting to note when a non-Christian person would use the term “theophany” in a sentence. If a Christian pastor or researcher were to use that term to describe the alien abduction experience, it would be obvious that he was judging the entity, with a negative or derogatory connotation, as if he were intentionally labeling the entity as a false god. But when Bullard uses it here, he’s just very clinically noting that a spiritual, or religious, interpretation cannot be divorced from the encounters. To an extent, even secular researchers identify the beings as divine, in a sense, just without the discernment or predisposition to qualify them as “good” or “evil.”
Dr. Leo Sprinkle, a PhD “Professor Emeritus” of Counseling at Wyoming University summarizes the experiences by saying that,
“UFO contactees have been chosen … no UFO contact is accidental … and that the manifestations are designed to influence the worldview of contactees…What follows is a summary of these claims about UFO experiences and related conditions:
1. UFO contactees have been chosen; no UFO contact is accidental.
2. Contactees are ordinary people, who exhibit a caring or a loving concern for all humankind…
4. UFO experiences include paraphysical, parapsychological, and spiritual manifestations which are designed to influence the “world view” of contactees.
8. Contactees are programmed for a variety of “future” activities, including awareness of their own contacts and desire to share their messages and knowledge with other contactees.
9. The lives of contactees move in the direction of greater self-awareness greater concern for the welfare of planet Earth, and a greater sense of Cosmic Citizenship with other beings in the universe.
10. The personal metamorphosis of UFO contactees is the forerunner of a social transformation in human consciousness, which now is leading to changes in the economic, educational, military, political, and religious institutions of nations of the Earth: the “New Age” of true science and spirituality.”
– R. Leo Sprinkle, quoted in Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters, pg 136-140, Ronald D. Story, Editor
You get that, Book of Revelation buffs? Expert, secular, PhD opinion… is that aliens are prepping people to accept the merging of politics, religion and money into a New Age system!
Now, some details of the actual messages…
“Jane says, “I’m reassured during the entire procedure. And it doesn’t hurt too much. I ask why they need that, and he looks deep into my eyes for a long time. Then he says that it was my choice, that I agreed to all this a long time ago. “I said I didn’t remember the agreement and when did I do that. And he answered, Before you were born, and we’ve had this conversation before. ”
– TAKEN : Inside the Alien-Human Abduction Agenda by Dr. Karla Turner, PhD, pg. 147
To the point, Aliens often teach people about past lives and reincarnation, which we know is in opposition to Hebrews 9:27 at minimum, which says,
“It is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment.”
That’s not all. Brad Steiger in a book he titled (in part) “channeling,” reports,
“The entity identified himself as OX-HO and declared that he had come from a galaxy very near our own to help the people on Earth… “People on Earth, open your doors to our help, for you need it desperately. Remember that we are always on the alert and (we) are now holding off and fighting any enemies from lesser evolved planets. Join our Confederation and be one with the Creator.”
– Brad Steiger Aquarian Revelations: Channeling Higher Intelligence pgs. 98-99
Christians studied in occult religions may recognize this as a form of pantheism, teaching that we can become one with the Creator if we are one with them. Dr John Mack confirms this pantheistic cosmic consciousness view propagated by the aliens, by saying,
“The aliens are recognized as intermediaries or intermediate entities between the fully bodied state of human beings and the primal source of creation or God (in the sense of a cosmic consciousness, rather than a personified being). In this regard abductees sometimes liken the alien beings to angels, or other “light beings” (including the “grays”). – Abduction, by Dr. John Mack, pg. 48
I.E., “Alien” encounters lead experiencers to the conclusion that God is not a personified deity, but a cosmic consciousness, and that some “grey aliens” are good angels.
More directly, aliens also claim over and over to be the creators of mankind …
He told her that these beings, “a nonphysical form of energy,” were created and controlled by his group. “Did you create humans, too?” Angie asked, and he confirmed this.”
– Dr. Karla Turner, PhD,Taken, pg. 157
Another contactee reports that an alien told her that Adam & Eve were created here as an experiment ……and that “Aliens genetically changed the DNA of a distant cousin to the ape on this planet” and “sped up” our evolution.
“…the question was asked of Monn, if there were more than one Adam and Eve. “Yes, you could say so, because there was more than one experiment on the Earth done by aliens visiting the planet… They were created here… Aliens genetically changed the DNA of a distant cousin to the ape on this planet… the aliens took the natural evolution and speeded it up.” Alien Contact : The Messages They Bring, by Bonnie Meyer, pgs. 178-179
This is but one example of many, of aliens injecting themselves into the Bible as creating Adam and Eve, and confirming the Theory of evolution, or guided evolution – guided by them. This isn’t their only attempt of re-telling the Bible.
“A UFO moved in the sky to Bethlehem and then it placed itself by a star in the sky. And also a UFO helped to part the Red Sea.. by lasers… the UFO’s were working for God… These UFOs also provided the manna from heaven. No I’m not saying that God did not do this, but God worked through the UFOs to produce this. Also, God used a laser to write those things on the tablet, the commandments. These UFOs also parted the Jordan River…”
– Bonnie Meyer Alien Contact: The Messages They Bring pgs 180-181
It’s not enough just to re-tell it, but they also want to attack the Bible’s integrity:
“Not all stories in your Bible are accurate because your Bible is not 100% correct… I would say basically another 6% was eliminated because it talked about reincarnation and UFOs which took power away from the church…”
– Bonnie Meyer Alien Contact: The Messages They Bring pgs 177-178, 180
What you may find the most disturbing is the variety of things aliens say about Jesus.
For instance, Alien messages include warnings against the use of nuclear energy in any form, and exhortations to put the world in order by,
“…returning to the “Cosmic Laws” as taught by great Masters such as Jesus, Buddha, and Krishna – all of whom are said to have come from other planets.”
– Aetherius Society, pg. 12-13
“The millions that come from other worlds, from far-off galaxies to assist in bringing Peace upon Earth, have my staunch support and backing for all of their endeavors… I AM SANANDA, KNOWN TO YOU AS JESUS THE CHRIST… I AM SANANDA, AND THIS IS MY MESSAGE TO THE WORLD.”
– Project World Evacuation, Compiled through Tuella, by The Ashtar Command, pgs. 8-9
Alien messages include claims that Jesus Christ is an alien, or alien hybrid, with a soul reincarnated into many different bodies on many alien worlds.
“Whenever a planet has problems like Earth is experiencing now, a special person is born on the planet to help. Even my home planet Surak had problems way back in its past, and the Son of God was the person who was called on to help. He has also been born on other planets. It is always the same soul that is born; however, it is not quite the same because there were different mothers.
– Alien Contact : The Messages They Bring, by Bonnie Meyer, pg. 186
If this image to the right doesn’t offend you, I don’t know what will. We didn’t create this picture, it was out there on a site promoting this view as truth. This image is ET’s message in a nutshell, and what God has called my life to be dedicated to fighting. The Son of God is not “crucified afresh” on planet after planet throughout millions of galaxies. The Bible says that Christ died once for all,
“By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.”
Hebrews 10:10
And we should all know He cannot be not “slightly different” based on different mothers, because the Bible says that Jesus Christ is the SAME, yesterday, today and forever,
“Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.”
Hebrews 13:8
Alien messages also attempt to rewrite the resurrection and how Jesus Christ will return,
“The most controversial thing is the ascension and resurrection of Christ. You see, he went up to a UFO in a beam, he went aboard a ship, and He is alive today and He will return in a ship called the New Jerusalem and it will be stationed outside of the atmosphere.”
– Bonnie Meyer, Alien Contact : The Messages They Bring pg 180-181
Now, only people who know the Bible would catch most of these lies, or half-truths. The New Jerusalem will not orbit the planet, but will be the city (not a ship) on Earth, that Jesus Christ will reign from.
One of today’s more infamous abductees is formerly know as Claude Vorilhom, but now goes by the name Rael. And like we saw from another alien encounter earlier, Rael’s aliens also claim to be humanity’s creators. They pose as scientists, or “designers.” From Rael’s book, called “The True Face of God”,
“… the creators (alien scientists aka Eloha / Elohim) therefore arranged for a child to be born of a woman of the Earth and one of their own people (aliens). The child in question (Jesus Christ) would thereby inherit certain telepathic faculties which humans lack… Mary was the woman chosen … One of the creators (aliens) appeared to explain that Mary would bring forth a son of “God”.
– The True Face of God, pg 60
Just a little more on where this is coming from, the cult leader Rael:
“Claude Vorilhon claimed that in December 1973 he was re-named Rael by aliens… Rael claims that HE is the result of a virgin birth .. Alien named Yahweh told him “we decided that the time had come to send a new messenger on earth .… says Jesus was “scientifically revived by other aliens and taken back to the Elohim planet” … says Jesus “didn’t die for the sins of the world .. Jesus’ purpose on earth was to help us advance scientifically and medically to make room for the return of the Elohim to the planet.”
– Bill Alnor, UFO Cults and The New Millennium, 1998 Baker Books, Ch 7
This is a modern day false prophet, but his experiences, I believe, really happened to him. It was the “aliens” that told him to write this book, and start this new religion, which today claims to have 55,000 members across the planet. It is interesting how often contact with aliens results in instructions to the abductee or contactee to start a new religion. They harp on how and why Christianity is wrong all the time though.
Going back to the 1950’s contactee George Van Tassel had “aliens” telling him things similar to the modern claims of the Rael, and contactee Bonnie Meyer whom we’ve been reading from already.
“He (George Van Tassel) said that JESUS was born of MARY, who was a space person sent here already pregnant in order to show earth people the proper way to live. He said the space people have watched over us through the years and have tried to help us.”
– Nick Redfern, On The Trail of The Saucer Spies, page 28-29
I lived in Roswell, NM for 11 years as a missionary, to present orthodox biblical views to those who go there with belief systems similar to what I’ve been describing. Now, I “used to believe” that my target audience, so to speak, was a very tiny niche group of people, limited mainly just to those who were having direct contact with ET’s, or who were joining UFO Cults.
However, I’ve had so many conversations with what you’d otherwise call “normal” people over the years, and I’ve been surprised and nearly sickened to find out how many people in the mainstream are beginning to think about the Bible in the exact same ways that I’ve been quoting you today – but WITHOUT joining a cult, or having contact experiences.
Note the opening 2 minutes of a program that debuted in 2002, and still airs several times per year on the History Channel.
“The Bible, a sacred text filled with fantastic tales of an awesome supernatural force, but what if that force wasn’t God? What if it was a UFO? In Ezekiel, what was that gleaming wheel within a wheel that descended on the prophet? In the Sodom and Gomorrah of Genesis where did the devastating fire and brimstone come from? In Exodus what was that presence in the sky that led Moses through the desert? Were these the actions of God? Or might these mysterious forces in the sky have been UFOs in the Bible?
Throughout the Bible mysterious aerial phenomena appear and alter the course of human history. To religious scholars these stories are an infallible record of God’s presence and Godly events, but some modern day researchers offer a different theory… perhaps these stories really describe alien visitations.”
Barry Downing: “Is it possible that extraterrestrials have been involved in human history for thousands of years, and if so, did they have contact with the Biblical people, and as you look in the Bible there are many reports of UFOs that contact Biblical people, a chariot of fire that abducts Elijah and takes him off into the sky.”
Narrator: “Elijah was one of the most revered Jewish prophets of his day. According to ufologists, the Biblical account of his encounter with chariots of fire, is a detailed description of what might be termed a UFO.”
– The History Channel “UFOs in the Bible”
The minister in the video wearing the white collar, Barry Downing, is teaching almost the exact same things that the alien contactees I’ve quoted are teaching, and almost the exact same things about UFOs in the Bible that the Raelian religion teaches.
My point is that it’s no longer direct contact with aliens, or participation in cult groups that leads people to embrace these ideas. It’s mass media, it’s Hollywood, and it’s even begun to creep into portions of the Christian church. It’s a strong delusion, and these entities have found ambassadors that are all to willing to carry their message.
Today, what you’ll find most prevalent in much of the alien contact literature since the fifties, and now all over the web, is the claim that when you read the Bible, what you’re really reading about is primitive man’s interpretation of UFO technology. Claims that the fire by day, cloud by night that Moses and the Israelites followed was really a UFO. Claims that Elijah was taken up in a UFO, like this mockumentary said. Claims that Jesus didn’t so much “ascend into heaven” after His resurrection, but rather that He was just beamed back up to the mother ship from which He came. And right along with this, the deceptive twist now being touted is that The Immaculate Conception and virgin birth of Jesus Christ are explainable by alien abduction and artificial insemination, resulting in an advanced teacher to mankind – who was either half-alien or all-alien.
But we know that The Bible says that God Himself became flesh, and dwelt among us in the person of Jesus Christ,
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God… All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made… He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not… And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us…” John Chapter 1
That’s who Jesus Christ is according to scripture – the world was made by Him. Alien messages always undermine the singular most important tenet of Christianity, that Jesus Christ is God Himself Incarnate as man, or God in the flesh.
For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Colossians 2:9
In whom we have redemption through his blood, [even] the forgiveness of sins: Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth… … all things were created by him, and for him Colossians 1:14-15
Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. – Hebrews 2:14-15
“For many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.” 2 John 1:7
So the essence of the struggle here is trying to reconcile the reality of alien encounters (generally speaking and the few fruitcakes and attention seekers aside, we believe that people genuinely are having these encounters), but we have to compare what is being told to people by the entities to what the Bible very clearly teaches. And the now extremely well-documented messages of beings claiming to be aliens repeatedly attack this doctrine, and claim that Jesus is not really God Incarnate, but is simply an advanced alien or half breed.
The common questions that Christians arrive at when they examine the documented teaching of aliens, are quite logically along the lines of, “Why would authentic extraterrestrial biological entities travel 90 billion light years just to attack one specific religion? Why do they make such a concentrated effort to convince people that Jesus Christ is not true Deity, or God Incarnate? Given their powers and abilities, the Christian truly is left with no choice but to identify these creatures as deceiving spirits. Which is exactly what the Bible tells us to expect in the Last Days.
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils. 1 Tim 4:1
For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. 2 Timothy 4:3-4 NIV
The Bible actually tells people to expect, in the last days, many people falling away from the faith – partly on the basis of believing human teachers of false doctrines – but very specifically, because of seducing spirits that teach the doctrines of devils. Which is exactly what you see when you examine aliens’ communications to humans. Finally, here’s one main passage which often also gets applied to the UFO phenomena by nearly all Christian researchers:
“The coming of the lawless one (aka antichrist) will be in accordance with the work of Satan, displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders, and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie…” 2nd Thessalonians 2:7-11
Putting this all too succinctly, many Christian researchers feel that the UFO phenomenon is a lying sign and wonder, and a powerful delusion, which will be embraced by those who refuse to believe the gospel. SOME powerful delusion, having global impact, with signs and wonders is exactly what Christians were warned 2,000 years ago to anticipate, as part of the final rise of the antichrist. Since 1947 – the year of the Roswell Incident, AND when the nation of Israel stepped back onto the worldstage… since 1947, the UFO phenomenon, you might say, has jumped to the forefront of being the leading contender to fit this bill.
So … what exactly do the aliens tell abductees about the end times?
The book Abduction by Dr John Mack represents a decade-long study of over 300 men and women who claimed alien abduction. Dr Mack is a Pulitzer Prize winning author, who, up until as his death, served as the Head of the Psychiatry Department at Harvard University School of Medicine.
He also co-chaired a conference at M.I.T. that concluded that abductees weren’t crazy, or lying, but that most abductees showed symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, proving that something had indeed happened to them.
After interviewing over 300 abductees, he summarizes the aliens’ messages by saying,
“The information that abductees receive is concerned primarily……with the fate of the earth in the wake of human destructiveness. Scenes are shown…of the earth devastated by a nuclear holocaust, vast panoramas of lifeless polluted landscapes and waters, and apocalyptic images of giant earthquakes, firestorms, floods, and even fractures of the planet itself are shown by the aliens. These are powerfully disturbing to the abductees, who tend to experience them as literally predictive of the future of the planet. Some abductees are given assignments in this future holocaust as it is displayed, such as to feed the survivors, or are told…that some will perish while others will be taken to another place to participate in the evolution of life in the universe.”
– Dr. John Mack Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens pg 395, 40
Extensive research by Dr. Mack, Karla Turner Phd, David Jacobs Phd, Budd Hopkins and many other prominent abduction researchers bears out that visions of the end of the world – or at least some massive future apocalypse – is one of if not THE major theme that abductees experience in their interactions with aliens. They also often speak of how the aliens will help mankind survive this period. Dr. Mack relates this conversation with an abductee named Ed,
“You have a sensitivity, Ed. You pick up on things. You can talk to the earth. The earth talks to you…The female being, whose name he now recalled as something like “Ohgeeka” or “Ageeka,” picked up on these qualities and underscored the responsibility Ed has for his gifts and powers.
“Listen to the earth. Listen to the earth, Ed. You can hear the earth. You can hear the anguish of the spirits. You can hear the wailing cries of the imbalances. It will save you. It will save you… Things are going to happen,” she said, but he must “listen to the spirits”…The earth itself, the being told him, is enraged at our stupidity, and “the earth’s skin is going to swat some bugs off” that do not know how “to work in symbiotic harmony” with it….
I asked Ed how this swatting off was going to happen. “Convulsions of the earth,” he said, “almost like puking us off, or shunning us off… They will get rid of parts of us.” Meanwhile, the being kept telling Ed that he has a “greater agenda”
I asked him what is called for, what he has been told is to be done. He answered personally, in terms of what he has been told about his own survival in the face of the “cataclysmic earth changes” that are to come. “She’s telling me, showing me that I have the tools within me to survive. I have this extra dimension. I have the choice of listening to it or not… I am to listen to my inner, something deep inside myself, and listen to the earth.”
– Abduction, John Mack, pg. 61, 64
Some abductees are told the key to surviving the Last Days is in themselves, while others are told the aliens will save them:
“It will be the time when the disasters are at their peak. It will happen when people will no longer be able to stand the disruptions and the chaos. The remainder of the people who are living will be picked up by spacecraft and be taken to safety on the planet Saturn. Here they will be cared for until the Earth is once again ready to be inhabited… You are all in the hands of the Space brothers, and the sooner you realize this, the better.”
– Brad Steiger, Aquarian Revelations: Channeling Higher Intelligence, pgs 106-7
But the Bible says clearly, that it is only Jesus who saves, and that whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord will be saved!
“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” Romans 10:9, 13
Of course we know that The Bible says a great deal about the End of the Age, and the disasters that will come on the earth before Jesus Christ’s return – specifically in Matthew 24 and the Book of Revelation … just for starters. I just want to point out to you the documented fact that aliens’ messages routinely contradict the biblical messages of destruction and recreation of a New Heaven and a New Earth by God, and Jesus’ promise to save His followers from this judgment. Aliens routinely promise that THEY will deliver their believers from the disasters foretold in the End Times, in a variety of ways – including but not limited to cloning, reincarnation, or by lifting those who follow the aliens off the planet just in the nick of time.
So I’ve shared with you the documented messages of extra-terrestrials, so that you could compare them to the Bible and begin to make an educated decision on whether you believe they are genuine Eextraterrestrials or – as the non-Christian Jacques Vallee wrote in his book title – are they “Messengers of Deception”?
And I think the documentation that exists of the “Contact” and “Abduction” phenomenon does indeed give you enough information to answer the original question for yourself,
“Are “extraterrestrials” intentionally evangelizing us to an alternate spirituality?”
And I’ll add, “Do these experiences tend to have an impact on people?” Yes.
“For many witnesses, a UFO encounter causes a radical shift in their beliefs about the universe. Their experiences stand out as the most emotionally terrifying and intellectually baffling experiences of their lives. As one witness said, “My belief system went right out the window.”
– Preston E. Dennett One in Forty – The UFO Epidemic: True Accounts of Close Encounters with UFO’s, pg 322-23
The aliens’ messages are “concerned primarily” with indoctrinating us to misunderstand, dismiss, and ignore what The Bible actually says about Jesus Christ, The Bible, God, and especially about the Last Days, and to trust in them.
To sort of sum it up, let me submit to you the conclusions of some other well-known Christian authors who have studied this same material.
“An examination of the evidence indicates beyond any doubt that a primary agenda of the alien visitors – whoever or whatever they are – is to change what human beings think about God and His Word (the Bible) and to replace exclusive Christianity with a religion of universalism”
– Ron Rhodes, citing William Alnor
Alien Obsession: What Lies Behind Abductions, Sightings, and the Attraction to the Paranormal
Two other Christian authors examine the ET movement and write,
“If the alleged messages that contactees are receiving are true, then the Bible is not true.”
-David Allen Lewis & Robert Shrekhise UFO: End-Time Delusion
Don’t be fooled – experiences with these entities, or a heavy belief in this phenomenon, is indeed going to require a choice on your part. Either the aliens are right and they’re telling people the truth, which means that everything the Christian church teaches about God and the Bible is a lie… or… the Bible is right, God is true, and the aliens are lying.
For an even more detailed and extensive presentation on this topic, see the online video,
“ET’s Message to Humanity: A False Gospel” by Guy Malone
Continue to Part 7: What Does The Bible Say About Life on Other Planets?