Editing Collins Elite (section)

== Nick Redfern ==
British journalist [[Nick Redfern]] interviewed several alleged insiders including [[Ray Boeche]] for his book ''Final Events and the Secret Government Group on Demonic UFOs and the Afterlife''.  According to ''Final Events'' the nickname started as an in-joke - the group were quite low-ranking in the US military at the time, and several of them had connections to a small town named Collins.  (Others have speculated that this explanation is a cover and the nickname in fact refers to Fort Collins or Gen. J. Lawton Collins).<ref name="Heiser">{{cite web |last1=Heiser |first1=Michael S. |url=https://drmsh.com/review-of-nick-redferns-final-events/ |title=Review of Nick Redfern’s Final Events}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Collin's Elite: a covert intelligence group believes UAPs are demonic|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/15e0ye6/collins_elite_a_covert_intelligence_group/}}</ref>

The Collins Elite came to believe that the activities of [[Aleister Crowley]] and his circle - for instance, the attempted magical ritual called the '[[Babalon Working]]' carried out by [[Jack Parsons]] and [[L. Ron Hubbard]] in 1946 - actually succeeded in opening a '[[interdimensional portal|portal]]' though which demons could enter the world, and that the [[1947 flying disc craze‏‎]] and the increase in 'alien encounters' and 'UFO' activity after that point was in fact the work of the demons.  They theorised that the demons, working with unscrupulous human allies, were deliberately passing themselves off as aliens to frighten humanity into accepting a [[world government]] to meet the supposed threat of the aliens, and that the demons and their human allies would run the new government, with the goal being to enslave humanity and harvest human souls.<ref name="Heiser"/>

Theologian [[Michael S. Heiser]] has remarked that if the Collins Elite exist, their ideas about theology and demons are rather peculiar and seem to him to owe more to horror films than the Bible - one of the examples he singled out was the idea of demons being unable to enter the world unless a human performed specific magical rituals for them, which he said had no Biblical support and seemed to him to imply comically feeble demons.<ref name="Heiser"/>