Dr. John Lash's insights on Pagan Gnostics, attribute terrorist ideology, as being linked to Manipulative Extraterrestrials. That apparent warning was presented by the Pagan Gnostics in pre-translated forms of the Bible which were apparently edited out by the same elite interests that seek to conceal broad based human knowledge on Extraterrestrials:

Ephesians 6:12 in the King James Version of the Bible, used as a basis for more modern translations stipulates “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” In sharp contrast a direct uncensored translation from Greek according to Biblical scholars indicates the following: “For our struggle is not against [human beings], but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual [dark forces] of wickedness in outer space.” – Ephesians 6:12 [the uncensored citation] LINK

According to Dr. Michael Salla's typology of reported Extraterrestrials, through the instruments of terrorism, war, extremist ideology, religious doctrine, and other tactics such as eugenics, Manipulative Extraterrestrials (and human elites which together constitute "the Controllers") seek to oppress humanity. Pagan Gnostics suggest that elites would only likely choose to disclose Extraterrestrial reality in the aftermath of some kind of engineered global catastrophe. Extraterrestrial researchers like Dr. Salla and alien abductees suggest that would be done in a scenario in which the same Manipulative Extraterrestrials that have sought to oppress humanity "behind-the-scenes" can then be presented as "humanity's only hope" to save "humanity from itself".

Dr. John Lash attributes religions like Christianity, as having been previously established under such orchestrated circumstances.

Such a context has also been explored in popular culture which include ABC-TV's "V". The "V" or the "Visitors" were portrayed as reptilian Extraterrestrial characters that had infiltrated human institutions prior to their own official disclosure.

In that disclosure, they presented themselves as seeking peaceful coexistence while they were at the same time plotting exploitation and a war of conquest for the benefit of their own reptilian race, with constructed human faces. Those characters are similar to David Icke's presentation of reptilian aliens as having infiltrated elite-driven human institutions in preparation of a timed disclosure which fits with an alien agenda and timetable.