“I think they're demons anyway, but that's a longer discussion," the vice president said in a new interview, citing his Christian faith
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- JD Vance said in a new interview that he thinks that UFOs are “demons,” not aliens, a belief he ties to his Christian faith
- Vance admitted he was “obsessed” with UFOs when he first took office, but hasn’t fully investigated Area 51 or other alien-related conspiracy theories
- The vice president also said he is “working” on releasing all government files related to UFOs and aliens, which Donald Trump first promised in February
JD Vance says he's "obsessed" with the mystery surrounding unidentified flying objects, which he believes to be “demons,” not aliens.
More than a month after President Donald Trump vowed to begin releasing “government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life,” the vice president, 41, opened up about his perspectives on UFOs in an interview with right-wing political commentator and YouTuber Benny Johnson published on Saturday, March 28.
The topic of UFOs — a.k.a. unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) — arose multiple times throughout the conversation, with Vance admitting that he was obsessed with them when he first took office, and revealing that he believes them to be “demons,” not aliens.
“I don't think they're aliens,” the vice president told Johnson, 38. “I think they're demons anyway, but that's a longer discussion.”
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Asked to elaborate on his belief, Vance, who grew up atheist and converted to Catholicism in his 30s, said, “Well, look, I think that celestial beings who fly around, who do weird things to people, I think that the desire to describe everything celestial, everything is otherworldly, to describe it as aliens.”
“I mean, every great world religion, including Christianity, the one that I believe in, has understood that there are weird things out there and there are things that are very difficult to explain,” he continued.
“And I naturally go, when I hear about, sort of, extra natural phenomenon … to the Christian understanding that there's a lot of good out there, but there's also some evil out there,” Vance said. “And I think that one of the devil's great tricks is to convince people we never existed.”
Asked earlier in the interview if he is going to “release all the UFO files,” the vice president said, “We're working on it.”
“It's funny. When I came in, I was obsessed with the UFO files. And then you start getting really busy worrying about the economy and national security and things like that,” he continued. “But I've still got three more years as vice president. I will get to the bottom of the UFO files.”
Despite his admitted obsession with UFOs, Vance told Johnson that he has not “peeked” at Area 51 (referring to the rumors about a classified U.S. Air Force facility in the Nevada desert) or looked into other UFO-related conspiracy theories — but vowed that he is going to “get to the bottom of it.”
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“I have not been able to spend enough time on this to really understand it, but I am going to. Trust me, I'm obsessed with this,” the vice president said. “I've already had a couple of times where I'm like, ‘All right, we're going to Area 51. We're going out to New Mexico. We're going to sort of get to the bottom of this.’ And then the timing of the trip just didn't work out.”
“But trust me, anybody who's curious about this, I'm more curious than anybody,” he continued. “And I've got three years of the very tippy top of the classification. I'm going to get to the bottom of it.”
Vance’s UFO comments come after Trump, 79, promised to release all government files relating to UFOs, UAPs and alien life in a Feb. 19 Truth Social post.
The president wrote, “Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”
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Vance's remarks also come after Barack Obama admitted in a YouTube interview of his own that aliens are “real, but I haven't seen them.”
The former president, 64, almost immediately walked back his February remarks to YouTuber and political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen, clarifying in an Instagram comment that he “saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us.”
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