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I went to Yeshivah with him. He was the best bachur and then the best yungerman in the kollel..
The Satmar Rebbe in Kiryas Joel signs marriage licenses for couples he is mesader kiddushin for. In Williamsburg, the Hisachdus HaRabbonim has rabbis who sign. Since Satmar don’t see each other when they are engaged, they usually get the license during sheva brachos. I live in a small town that has a few Chassidishe bungalow colonies in the summer. Since it is easier to get a license upstate than in the city (don’t have to wait in line, and they let the bride come alone and the groom come alone) they often come to our local year-round Litvishe rov to get their license signed a few months before the wedding. I am also an ordained rabbi (was a rov in a shul out of town years ago) and registered in NYC, so I have signed over 500 marriage licenses over the past 10 years, but mostly for non-Jewish couples (I asked a dayan and he said it is OK to sign for non Jewish couples as long as not two men).
the “Chesed L’Avraham” (the grandfather of the Chida) speaks about what the Zohar discusses about there being seven hidden lands, with various beings living in each land. The Zohar speaks of the inhabitants of one of the lands called “Neshaya”, where the people are shorter than our people. The Chesed L’Avraham says that the world is essentially hollow, with various layers, like the layers of an onion, and he describes the inhabitants of “Neshaya” as having large heads, small bodies, no ears or noses, only holes, and a small slit for a mouth, and large black eyes. He says that these people do take people sometimes briefly for their needs. Sounds like “grey aliens”. Probably what people think are the aliens from other planets are actually the people from Neshaya under the earth. It is still possible though that there is life on other planets, but those who abduct people are probably closer to us than other planets.
even if this was his practice, it is not necessarily the halachah. I was a gabbai for a chassidishe rebbe who had this practice, but said it is not the halachah for everyone to follow.