CIA and Vatican Both Went to Moscow. Obviously, Aliens.

Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, effectively the Vatican’s foreign minister, arrived for talks with Sergey Lavrov. Publicly, the subject was entirely terrestrial: Ukraine.

Then CIA Director John Ratcliffe arrived.

The Kremlin neither confirmed nor denied much of anything. A U.S. Air Force C-17 was tracked into Moscow, Ratcliffe reportedly spent several hours meeting Russian officials, and then he left.

Obviously, John Ratcliffe, Archbishop Gallagher and the Russians wouldn't be discussing Ukraine, over the heads of the European officials? What is left? Extraterrestrial intelligence.

The CIA has been officially interested in UFOs for decades.

The Agency’s own declassified archive contains an entire collection called “UFOs: Fact or Fiction?” Among its documents are reports about unidentified flying objects over Iran, Spain, Greece, North Africa and the Soviet Union.

There is a 1967 CIA document rather beautifully titled “Report on Conversations with Soviet Scientists on Subject of Unidentified Flying…”

The CIA had collected and analysed UFO reports for decades. A review ordered in the 1990s found hundreds of documents relating to the subject.

Russia, meanwhile, inherited the archives, military institutions and scientific establishment of the Soviet Union, which also spent considerable time wondering what various inexplicable objects in its airspace were doing.

The Vatican has its own astronomical research institution.

The Vatican Observatory is not a ceremonial telescope parked beside St Peter’s Basilica so cardinals can check whether God is coming soon TM. It is a functioning scientific institution whose astronomers study planetary science, cosmology, stellar systems and the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe.

Its astronomers have repeatedly been asked what extraterrestrial life would mean for Christianity.

They have taken the question seriously enough to write a book called Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial?

Brother Guy Consolmagno, the Jesuit planetary scientist who formerly directed the Vatican Observatory, has discussed whether extraterrestrials could possess souls, whether discovering intelligent life would transform humanity’s understanding of itself and, inevitably, whether an alien could become Catholic.

His answer to the baptism question has essentially been: if they ask.

More interestingly, the Vatican Observatory was publicly discussing UFOs again only months ago.

In May 2026, Consolmagno gave an interview specifically addressing UFOs, extraterrestrial life and what humanity’s obsession with aliens reveals about religion, authority and our desire not to be alone.

Three months later, a senior Vatican diplomat turns up in Moscow on exactly the same day as the director of the CIA.

Coincidence?

Almost certainly.

But this website has standards.

Low ones, occasionally, but standards.

Somewhere inside the Kremlin, Sergey Lavrov looks across the table and answers the question humanity has spent seventy years waiting for.