Vice President JD Vance promised to uncover the truth about aliens, adding that he prefers to characterize extraterrestrial beings as “demons.”
During an appearance on conservative influencer Benny Johnson’s podcast on Friday, the vice president vowed to use his “tippy-top” security clearance to investigate what the government knows about UFOs.
“We’re working on it,” Vance said about President Donald Trump ordering the federal government to release its files on UFOs.
Vance said he was “obsessed with the UFO files … and then you start getting busy worrying about the economy and national security and things like that.
“But I still got three more years as vice president. I will get to the bottom of the UFO files,” the vice president said.
Vance said his plans to seek the truth were thwarted by higher priorities.
“I’ve already had a couple of times where I’m like, ‘alright, 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. Anyone who’s curious about this — I’m more curious than anybody, and I’ve got three years of the very tippy-top of the classification,” he told Johnson. “I’m going to get to the bottom of this.”
Vance said he doesn’t use the term “aliens” to describe extraterrestial beings.
“I don’t think they’re aliens, I think they’re demons anyway, but that’s a longer discussion,” he said.
“I think that celestial beings who fly around to do weird things to people — I think that the desire to describe everything celestial … as aliens — I mean, every great world religion including Christianity … has understrood that there are weird things out there. And there are things that are very difficult to explain,” Vance continued.
“When I hear about extranatural phenomenon … where I go to is 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 he never existed.”
Trump made the announcement in a social media post hours after he accused former President Barack Obama of disclosing “classified information” when Obama recently suggested in a podcast interview that aliens were real.
Last month, Trump announced in a social media post that he directed government agencies to release any documents 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.”
The post was made hours after Trump accused former President Barack Obama of disclosing “classified information” when Obama suggested in a podcast interview that aliens were real.
Obama later clarified that he had not seen evidence that aliens “have made contact with us,” but said, “statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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