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human
According to Guénon, in his prophetic work The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times, as this cycle of manifestation draws to a close, the cosmic environment first solidifies — this being in a way both the result and the cause of modern materialism — after which it simply fractures, because a material reality absolutely cut off from subtler planes of being is metaphysically impossible. 
These cracks in the 'great wall' separating the physical universe from the subtle or animic plane initially open in a 'downward' direction, toward the 'infra-psychic' or demonic realm (cf. Rev. 9:1-3); 'magical realism' replaces 'ordinary life'. It is only at the final moment that a great crack opens in the 'upward' direction, at the Second Coming of Christ, the advent of that Being whom the Hindus call the Kalki Avatara, who will bring this world to a close and inaugurate the next cycle of manifestation. And yet, for those with faith in God and an intuition of the Absolute, the 'upward crack', since it opens onto Eternity, is here already; though the mass mind is becoming less and less able to see it, the Door of Grace is not closed: 'Behold I am with you all days, even unto the consummation of the age.' As the dark shadow of a greater Light than this world can produce, the UFO phenomenon is truly an eschatological sign.
gpt
The most puzzling aspect of UFO phenomena to most researchers — namely, the strange mingling of physical and psychic characteristics in them — is no puzzle at all to readers of Orthodox spiritual books, especially the Lives of the Saints. Demons also have 'physical bodies', although the 'matter' in them is of such subtlety that it cannot be perceived by men unless their spiritual 'doors of perception' are opened, whether with God's will (in the case of holy men) or against it (in the case of sorcerers and mediums). 
Orthodox literature has many examples of demonic manifestations which fit precisely the UFO pattern: 
apparitions of 'solid' beings and objects (whether demons themselves or their illusory creations) which suddenly 'materialize' and 'dematerialize', always with the aim of awing and confusing people and ultimately leading them to perdition. The Lives of the 4th-century St Anthony the Great (Eastern Orthodox Books, 1976) and the 3rd-century St Cyprian the Former Sorcerer (The Orthodox Word, 1976, no. 5) are filled with such incidents.... 
It is clear that the manifestations of today's 'flying saucers' are quite within the 'technology' of demons; 
indeed, nothing else can explain them as well. The multifarious demonic deceptions of Orthodox literature have been adapted to the mythology of outer space, nothing more ... [their] purpose [is] to awe the beholders with a sense of the 'mysterious', and to produce 'proof of the 'higher intelligences' ('angels', if the victim believes in them, or 'space visitors' for modern men), and thereby to gain trust for the message they wish to communicate.6
human
The aliens are here to mimic Spiritual realities on the psycho-physical level, and so prepare the way for Antichrist. As St Symeon the New Theologian says in the Philokalia (p.11), Men will not understand that the miracles of Antichrist have no good, rational purpose, no definite meaning, that they are foreign to truth, filled with lies, that they are a monstrous, malicious, meaningless play-acting, which increases in order to astonish, to reduce to perplexity and oblivion, to deceive, to seduce, to attract by the fascination of a pompous, empty, stupid effect.

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St Gregory of Nyssa: 
Know to what extent the Creator has honoured you above all the rest of creation. The sky is not an image of God, nor is the moon, nor the sun, nor the beauty of the stars, nor anything of what can be seen in creation. You alone have been made the image of the Reality that transcends all understanding, the likeness of imperishable beauty, the imprint of true divinity, the recipient of beatitude, the seal of true light. When you turn to him you become that which he is himself.... There is nothing so great among beings that it can be compared with your greatness. God is able to measure the whole heaven with his span. The earth and the sea are enclosed in the hollow of his hand. And although he is so great and holds all creation in the palm of his hand, you are able to hold him, he dwells in you and moves within you without constraint....