US Vice President JD Vance told a podcast host in the US that he thinks UFO sightings can be explained by “demons” and that they could be one of the “devil’s great tricks”
17:27, 28 Mar 2026Updated 17:27, 28 Mar 2026
The bombshell claims came from the Vice President himself (Image: AFP via Getty Images)
US Vice President and key Trump ally JD Vance not only believes in aliens, but thinks that unexplained UFO sightings are actually physical manifestations of biblical demons.
The bombshell admission comes right from Vance himself, with the powerful Republican explaining that he has an “obsession” with the extra-terrestrial on a popular US podcast.
Vance told podcaster Benny Johnson that he is “more curious than anybody”, when it comes to aliens, promising that he would use the last three years of his time as Vice President to shed light on the topic.
“And I’ve got three years of the very tippy-top of the classification. I’m going to get to the bottom of it”, he promised.
Vance says that he thinks UFOS are ‘demons'(Image: Getty Images)
The “obsessed” Vance went on to add that he does have a theory as to what UFOs and potential alien sightings may be.
For the Vice President, who is a practising Catholic, having converted in 2019, the answer is “demons.”
When pushed on why he thought that the truth behind UFOS was demonic beings, Vance explained that one of the “devil’s great tricks” is to convince people that he “never existed.”
“Celestial beings who fly around, who do weird things to people, I think that the desire to describe everything celestial, everything as otherworldly—to describe it as aliens”, he added.
While a Catholic himself, Vance also pointed out that his theory could have legs among believers of other faiths as well.
What do you make of JD Vance’s claims?(Image: Getty Images)
“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,” Vance said.
The interview comes after months of speculation over whether Trump will keep his promise and release the so-called UFO files, a series of documents believed to detail potential alien sightings and other extraterrestrial goings-on.
Former President Barack Obama recently made a headline-grabbing claim that aliens are “real, but I haven’t seen them”.
“They’re not being kept in Area 51, there’s no underground facility, unless there’s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the president of the United States”, he added.
The possibility of alien lives is an ‘obsession’ of the Vice President’s(Image: Getty Images)
Following a frenzied reaction online, the former President clarified his statement on Instagram, writing:
“Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there. But the distances between solar systems are so great that the chances we’ve been visited by aliens is low, and I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Really!”
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