The last time we checked in with a VICE doccie they were embedded amongst the White Supremacists of Charlottesville.

Their 22-minute doccie can be seen HERE, and it’s worth taking a look at if you haven’t yet watched it.

We’re here to talk about folks who worship aliens, though, and a group called The Aetherius Society. They even have their own website (HERE), which is worth a quick click around just for gees.

Right, VICE’s description of what you’re about to see:

So far, the concept of aliens in popular culture has largely been limited to little green, probing perverts from sci-fi and the rantings of conspiracy theorists. However, there is a group of men and women in a renovated church in Parson’s Green who take the matter very seriously. They are The Aetherius Society and to them, aliens are Gods.

VICE’s Amelia Dimoldenberg has the honour of being invited to their annual pilgrimage to Holdstone Down in Devon, the place where Jesus first came down in a spaceship from Venus. She is witness to Operation Prayer Power, a ritual where a ‘prayer battery’s’ energy is charged so that it can be directed by Extraterrestrials to help mankind.

I find most religious beliefs laughable, so here goes nothing:

I wanted to really take the piss, but then I remembered that we have villages in KZN where hundreds of people were eating human flesh.

[source:vice]