Flat Earther claims NASA is pushing belief in ETs so that when Jesus comes back, we'll shoot him

Stay with me here. On a recent episode of the conspiracy-debunking QAnon Anonymous podcast, Kelly Weill, author of Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything (which sounds like a terrific new book), shared the following anecdote:

"I've been to flat Earth conferences and I remember this guy said he used to contract with Nasa."