WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance speculated that UFOs could actually be “demons” flying around Earth, contending that ancient civilizations believed they had encounters with such vile creatures.
“I don’t think they’re aliens. I think they’re demons anyway, but that’s a long discussion,” Vance told conservative podcaster Benny Johnson.
“I mean, every great world religion, including Christianity, the one I believe in, as understood, there are weird things out there,” he later added. “When I hear about [an] extra natural phenomenon, that’s where I go to: The Christian understanding that there’s a lot of good out there, but there’s also evil out there.
“I think that one of the devil’s great tricks is to convince people he never existed.”
Notably, right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson had conveyed similar beliefs about unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) being demons rather than aliens. Carlson also claimed to have been attacked in the middle of the night by a demon and left with claw marks while sleeping next to his wife and dog.
Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, underscored his obsession with UAPs and vowed to “get to the bottom of it.”
“When I came in, I was obsessed with the UFO files, and you start getting really busy worrying about the economy and national security, and things like that. But I’ve still got three years left as vice president,” Vance.
“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,” he added. “I’m more curious than anybody, and I’ve got three years of the very tippy top of the classification.”
The veep admitted that he wants to go explore Area 51, but hasn’t been able to yet due to scheduling concerns.
Vance’s head-turning remarks on UAPs come weeks after former President Barack Obama casually claimed on a liberal podcast that aliens are “real.”
“But I haven’t seen them. They’re not being kept at Area 51,” he added, initially without clarifying where the aliens are.
Later, Obama clarified that he believes aliens exist but “saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us.”
Shortly after that, President Trump announced that his administration was starting “the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs).”
“I don’t know if they’re real or not,” Trump told reporters at the time, when asked about aliens. “I may get him [Obama] out of trouble by declassifying.”
During his first administration, Trump told ABC News that he didn’t particularly believe in aliens.
