In the shadowed corners of conspiracy lore, a chilling claim surfaces: that Aleister Crowley, the self-proclaimed “Great Beast 666”, and L. Ron Hubbard, the pulp-fiction writer who would later birth Scientology, were secretly recruited by the fledgling CIA to use their minds to pilot a manufactured “fake UFO.” According to the whispers, earlier experiments in psychic craft control had already claimed multiple lives. The goal? To weaponize thought itself against the skies, blending black magic, mind control, and reverse-engineered (or manifested) aerial technology in the early Cold War.

Sounds like pure fringe madness? Perhaps. But when you dig beneath the surface, through declassified files, occult histories, and the documented intersections of ritual magic, intelligence agencies, and the birth of the modern UFO era, the pieces start forming a disturbingly coherent picture. Let’s go deep.

The Occult Foundation: Babalon Working and the 1947 Portal

The story doesn’t begin with the CIA. It begins in 1946, in the Mojave Desert and a Pasadena mansion, with rocket scientist Jack Parsons and naval officer L. Ron Hubbard. Inspired directly by Aleister Crowley’s Thelemic teachings, they performed the infamous Babalon Working, a series of sex-magick rituals designed to incarnate the goddess Babalon and, in some interpretations, tear open a dimensional gateway.

Parsons and Hubbard chanted, drew sigils with swords, spilled blood, and masturbated onto magical tablets while invoking forces from beyond. Parsons later claimed success: a “brownish-yellow light” appeared, something invisible struck him, and shortly afterward the modern UFO era exploded into public view, Kenneth Arnold’s “flying saucers” in June 1947, the Roswell crash in July, and a global wave of sightings. Crowley himself died on December 1, 1947, the exact year the UFO phenomenon went mainstream. Coincidence? Conspiracy researchers say no. Some claim the ritual cracked reality open, allowing “demons disguised as aliens” or thought-forms to pour through.

Enter the Collins Elite, a rumored ultra-secret group inside the U.S. military and intelligence community that allegedly viewed UFOs not as extraterrestrial craft, but as demonic entities summoned through occult means. According to Nick Redfern’s Final Events, this group traced the entire postwar UFO flap directly back to Parsons, Hubbard, and Crowley’s workings.

The CIA Angle: MK-Ultra, Psychic Warfare, and Manufactured Realities

By 1947 the CIA had just been born from the wartime OSS. Its early obsession with psychological warfare, mind control, and unconventional weapons is now declassified history. MK-Ultra (and its predecessors) experimented with LSD, hypnosis, electroshock, and psychic phenomena to create controllable operatives and break minds. Parallel programs like Stargate explored remote viewing and psychokinesis, literally trying to move or influence objects with thought.

Simultaneously, the Agency was deeply interested in UFOs, not just as potential Soviet threats, but as tools for psychological operations. Declassified memos show CIA officials discussing how to use “flying saucer” hysteria for disinformation and how the phenomenon could mask advanced U.S. technology tests.

Now overlay the occult: Hubbard had direct experience with Crowley-style magick through Parsons. Crowley himself had British intelligence ties during both World Wars. Some fringe accounts even claim Hubbard was sent into the O.T.O. (Crowley’s order) as an intelligence asset to “break up black magic in America.”

The leap to a “fake UFO” controlled by thought isn’t as insane as it first sounds when you factor in later black projects. Rumors of the Montauk Project (an alleged continuation of the Philadelphia Experiment) speak of a “Montauk Chair” that used amplified psychic abilities to manifest objects, open time portals, and even create or control physical craft. Survivors and whistleblowers described deadly experiments where test subjects’ minds were fried trying to interface with reality-bending technology, exactly the “previous attempts ended in death” detail in the claim.

Man-made or psychically manifested “UFOs” also appear in broader lore: Avrocar saucer prototypes, Nazi Bell technology, antigravity research allegedly covered by UFO disinformation, and even claims that some “alien” craft were actually thought-form projections or reverse-engineered vehicles piloted via mind-machine interfaces.

The Fatal Experiments and the Recruitment Theory

Here the trail goes darkest. Conspiracy narratives insist that before any “success” with Crowley-level occultists, earlier psychic volunteers, perhaps gifted sensitives or unwitting test subjects, died horribly when their minds were hooked into prototype craft or portal devices. Brain hemorrhages, spontaneous combustion, insanity, or simply vanishing into the “void” are the reported outcomes. Parsons himself died in a 1952 home-lab explosion officially ruled accidental but suspected by many to be murder or a magical backlash.

The theory goes that by the late 1940s the CIA, already monitoring Parsons’ rocket work and occult activities, quietly approached Hubbard (still in the Navy/intelligence orbit) and, through intermediaries, drew on Crowley’s lingering network or writings. The goal: stabilize the portal opened in 1946 and create a controllable, man-made UFO that could be piloted not by engines but by directed will, perfect for deniable operations, psychological warfare, or even interstellar reconnaissance without leaving physical traces.

No smoking-gun document has ever surfaced. But in the world of compartmentalized black projects, that is exactly what you would expect.

Why This Theory Persists

Because it ties together too many verified threads:

• Crowley → Parsons → Hubbard (documented)
• Babalon Working timing and the 1947 UFO explosion (documented)
• CIA’s proven obsession with mind control, remote viewing, and UFO psyops (declassified)
• Collins Elite’s demonic-UFO interpretation (multiple insider accounts)
• Montauk/Philadelphia Experiment lore of deadly psychic chair tests (persistent whistleblower claims)

Whether the specific “Crowley and Hubbard recruited to thought-pilot a fake UFO” story is literal history or a modern myth woven from these strands, it reveals something profound: the 20th century’s hidden marriage of ritual magic, intelligence agencies, and advanced technology. The line between demon, alien, and man-made craft may be thinner than we think—and the deadliest experiments may still be classified.

What do you believe? Was it a portal to another dimension… or the birth of the ultimate mind-weapon? Drop your thoughts below. The sky, after all, has never been the limit.

Sources drawn from declassified CIA files, occult histories, and primary accounts of the Babalon Working. As always, verify, question, and keep digging.