US Vice President JD Vance has said he is “obsessed” with UFOs (unidentified flying objects) and has promised to obtain more information from the US government’s “UFO file” during his tenure.
“I haven’t been able to spend enough time on it to really understand it, but I will, believe me. I’m obsessed with it,” Vance told conservative Benny Johnson on The Benny Show Friday.
Vance said he was “really busy worrying about the economy and national security and things like that” but promised to “get to the bottom of the UFO files” during his years as vice president.
The vice president told Johnson that there were several times he thought he might examine the UFO files, “I’m like, OK, we’re going to Area 51, we’re going to New Mexico. We’re going to get to the bottom of it somehow.” But he said, “Then the timing of the trip just didn’t work out.”
Vance repeated his promise, saying, “Believe me, I’m more curious than anyone. And I’ve got three years of a very pointed top of the classification. I’ll get to the end.”
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UFOs are not aliens, but…
However, JD Vance really turned heads when he said he doesn’t think UFOs are aliens, but demons.
“I don’t think they’re aliens. I think they’re demons,” Vance said, describing it as a Christian understanding of “heavenly beings that fly around and do weird things to people.”
Specifically, Vance said, “Celestial beings that fly around that do strange things to people, I think the desire to describe everything celestial, everything as otherworldly – to describe it as alien. I mean, every major world religion, including Christianity, which I believe in, has understood that there are strange things and there are things that are very difficult to explain.”
He said that when he hears about some kind of “extra natural phenomenon,” he turns to the Christian understanding that “there’s a lot of good out there, but there’s also some evil.”
One of the “devil’s great tricks” is to convince people that he “never existed,” Vance added.
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In February, US President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to begin “identifying and releasing” government files on UFOs and aliens.
Trump said he took the step “based on the tremendous interest shown”, the same month that former US President Barack Obama publicly stated that aliens are “real”, despite not having seen them.
Trump told reporters that Obama “gave classified information, he shouldn’t have.”
The Trump administration further encouraged interest in extraterrestrials, registering the Aliens.gov federal domain in March.
However, no evidence of intelligent life beyond Earth has been presented.
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Interest in UFOs and related phenomena has revived in recent years as the U.S. government investigates numerous reports of apparently supernatural aircraft, amid concerns that adversaries may be testing highly advanced technology.
In March 2024, the Pentagon released a report saying it had no evidence that the unidentified aerial phenomena were alien technology, with many suspected sightings turning out to be mere weather balloons, spy planes, satellites, and other common activities.
