This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on May 8, 2026.
“The rumors are real,” pastor Mike Signorelli wrote on X. “I was brought into a private briefing with other pastors. No phones, no cameras, no recordings. We were told plainly: Disclosure is coming, and what follows will shake the faith of many. If pastors don’t start preparing their people now, it will be too late.”
We’ve all seen the movies. In Arrival, investigators must figure out how to communicate with aliens. In E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, a child befriends an alien and helps the alien back to their family. District 9 imagines aliens being sent to a run-down government camp. Independence Day explores the human desire to survive in the face of the far superior alien technology.
This summer, Stephen Spielberg is releasing his latest alien sci-fi thriller, Disclosure Day. But Spielberg says he believes his latest movie is “way closer to truth than fiction.”
“I don’t know any more than any of you do,” Spielberg said. “But I have a very strong suspicion that we are not alone here on Earth right now — and I made a movie about that.”
However, other than evangelical Rapture movies, the idea of the U.S. government meeting in an AirBnB in the backwoods of Tennessee with a group of Pentecostal pastors to tell them to warn their parishioners not to be deceived by the imminent alien disclosure hasn’t been a plot line that crossed many Hollywood writers’ minds.
The Airbnb meetings
“There were a large number of pastors that had been invited to go to a certain state to hear some men in the United States government and others share with them a concern that they had,” began pastor Perry Stone.
He recalled his friend who was in attendance telling him, “Perry, what they’re about to release — from what we’re hearing, there’s going to be a release concerning aliens and concerning unidentified flying object spacecraft that some of the people who were in the meeting were telling us as pastors, you need to prepare your people and you need to get ready to answer them for what you’re about to hear being released.”
It might be easy for many to dismiss Perry’s claims as the rantings of someone pretending they’re in the know. But Perry is friends with White House Faith Advisor Paula White and ministers with her often. Given the fact that he actually does have connections to the government, it doesn’t seem likely he’d feel the need to completely make up his connections to the government.
And he’s not the only one. I share audio clips from a number of these pastors in the latest episode of the BNG podcast “Highest Power: Church + State.”
Bishop Alan DiDio of Revival Nation Church affirmed, “I was in this meeting, and it’s absolutely true.”
He clarified in a later video that there were actually two separate meetings. He said his understanding was that Perry Stone was referring to the first meeting, in which Didio was not in attendance.
He called it “the strangest meeting I’ve ever been invited to in my life.”
“So imagine me in this situation,” he began. “Someone I know who has extensive experience within the armed forces, I shall say, tells me about the legitimacy of this meeting and invites me to this meeting. I go to this Airbnb in the middle of nowhere Tennessee, on a dark, it was at night, on this dark road in the middle of this neighborhood, and I’m asked when I get on the property to turn my phone on airplane mode. This is weird, guys. This is not sensationalizing it, it is sensational, it’s weird. And we go into this meeting with, I don’t remember all the people who were there … but I know Mike Signorelli was there, I know that Joseph Z was there, I know Ben Hughes was there, and I think Fred Price was there. There were a few others there, so between a half a dozen to a dozen, something like that.”
He said, “The people in the meeting who were leading the meeting have access to government intelligence and are in the know. And I believe they believe what they were telling us. And I believe they know what they were talking about.”
What’s coming
The specifics of the allegedly imminent disclosure can be hard to pin down. The pastors said they were told there could be a variety of theories given.