Pastor Shane Warren is breaking his silence about a series of private meetings in which he says participants were shown classified documentation, photographs and presentations related to unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) — and he is urging the church to prepare for a wave of deception that could follow their public release.
Warren, who pastors The Bend Church in Cookeville, Tennessee, shared his account in a recent interview with prophecy teacher Perry Stone on the Perry Stone YouTube channel.
Warren said he was originally invited to one of the meetings by tech community contacts on the West Coast, who had heard him teach for years on biblical subjects, including the Nephilim, fallen angels and Genesis 6 — topics they once dismissed.
‘Startling’ Information, Verified Independently
Warren described sessions lasting five to eight hours, involving documentation he called “overwhelming” and images of both crafts and multiple types of beings.
To test the account’s credibility, Warren said he contacted another minister who had attended a separate meeting and asked him independently to recount what he had heard — without sharing his own account first. “He began to go down the list,” Warren said. “It was identical information, almost identical information.”
“If the greater part of the American people, specifically the church, saw what we saw, heard what we heard, even a fraction of it — it is startling,” Warren said. “There is no way for me to over-sensationalize what I saw.”
Three Possible Explanations
Both Warren and Stone outlined three frameworks for understanding the UAP phenomenon: advanced military or foreign-government technology; angelic or interdimensional manifestations rooted in Scripture; or demonic activity linked to the biblical account of fallen angels. Stone noted that the U.S. military’s stealth bomber was once similarly unknown to the public, leaving open the possibility of classified domestic programs.
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Warren said evidence presented at the meetings included footage of a very large craft splitting two fighter jets flying in tight formation, and documentation of crafts traveling underwater at speeds exceeding 400 miles per hour — a capability, he noted, that no known submarine possesses. “If it is another government that has this technology, we’re all in big trouble in America,” he said.
The Goal: Preparing the Church, Not Sensationalizing
Warren was emphatic that the primary objective of the briefings was not disclosure for its own sake, but a warning to the Christian community. “The goal of the meeting was to go back and get churches ready,” he said, describing participants as believers who expressed concern that the coming narrative around UAP disclosures could be used to undermine the biblical account of creation — steering people toward explanations such as the Anunnaki theory, which attributes human origins to extraterrestrial intervention rather than God.
Stone pointed to Luke 21 as a biblical anchor for the moment, noting that the Greek text describing “fearful sights from heaven” uses a word meaning “monstrous.” He cited verse 26 — “men’s hearts failing them for fear” — as a prophetic parallel to the current cultural climate, while also drawing attention to verse 28: “When these things begin to come to pass, look up and lift up your heads, for your redemption draws near.”
Both ministers closed by emphasizing the gift of spiritual discernment as the most critical tool for believers navigating this period. “The gift of discernment is not the gift of suspicion,” Stone said. “We need to know what spirits we’re dealing with.” Warren agreed, framing the current moment as one requiring the church to move beyond biblical illiteracy and engage substantively with topics that, he argued, run throughout Scripture from Genesis to Revelation.
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