‘I think they’re demons,’ JD Vance said of aliens last week By Jon Brown, Christian Post Reporter Thursday, April 02, 2026
U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., speaks on stage on the third day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 17, 2024, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. | Win McNamee/Getty Images
Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., claimed during an interview earlier this week that a U.S. Army official briefed him when he was in Congress about alleged alien-human hybrid “breeding programs” taking place with kidnapped humans and supposed extraterrestrials captured from downed UFOs.
Speaking with conservative influencer Benny Johnson on a Tuesday episode of “The Benny Show,” Gaetz said the unnamed whistleblower was decked out in his military uniform when he visited his congressional office in Florida to warn that the programs are being kept secret and intended to create a superhuman race.
“I had someone come and brief me, who was in a military uniform, worked for the United States Army, that was briefing me on the locations of hybrid breeding programs where captured aliens were breeding with humans to create some hybrid race that could engage in intergalactic communication,” Gaetz said.
NEW: Former Congressman Matt Gaetz says he was briefed about a secret program where aliens were breeding with humans to make a hybrid race.
Gaetz says the humans who were involved were allegedly abducted from war zones and migrant caravans.
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“An actual uniformed member of the United States Army briefed me on that,” added Gaetz, who was President Donald Trump’s initial pick to serve as U.S. Attorney General in 2024 before he withdrew amid allegations that he had sex with a 17-year-old, which he denied.
Gaetz went on to claim that he and members of his staff were told there were six to 12 facilities where humans who had been “abducted from war zones” or “the caravans of migrants” were participating in the program, though he admitted he never verified the whistleblower’s claims.
He also claimed the whistleblower wanted “members of Congress to all show up at the same time at all these different locations, so that any of those activities could not be moved,” which Gaetz noted was an impossible request.
Gaetz’s claims come as UFOs, extraterrestrials, interdimensionals and related occult phenomena have increasingly emerged as a topic of discussion on influential podcasts and among prominent officials in recent months.
The Age of Disclosure, a popular documentary released last year, counted Secretary of State Marco Rubio among the 34 U.S. government, military and intelligence officials who claimed alien intelligence exists on Earth and has been covered up by the government for decades.
Vice President JD Vance casually remarked during another interview with Benny Johnson last week that he believes so-called aliens are demonic.
When asked to expand upon such an assertion, Vance cited his Roman Catholic faith to explain his personal religious and historical framework for making sense of mysterious beings from the sky whose interactions with humans are often reportedly unpleasant.
JD Vance Tells Me That UFOs are DEMONS:
“I Think They’re DEMONS” ????
“I don’t think they’re aliens. There are weird things out there that are very difficult to explain.”
The Vice President tells me he’s going to AREA 51 with his Top Secret Security Clearance to FIND OUT.
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“I think that 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 — 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.
“When I hear about 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 some evil out there. And I think that one of the devil’s great tricks is to convince people he never existed,” he added.
After raising eyebrows for claiming on the “No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen” podcast in February that aliens are “real,” but that he hasn’t “seen them,” former President Barack Obama issued a statement clarifying that he “saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us,” and was simply expressing a statistical likelihood given the size of the universe.
Barack Obama on aliens: “They’re real”
“But I haven’t seen them. They’re not being kept at Area 51. There’s no underground facility — unless there’s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the President of the United States.” pic.twitter.com/c6t0DYxewU
— UAP James (@UAPJames) February 14, 2026
Trump subsequently accused Obama of revealing classified information on the topic, but directed the Pentagon and other government agencies to declassify information related to UFOs because of the public’s “tremendous interest.”
“I don’t know if they’re real or not,” Trump said of aliens in February.
Father Chad Ripperger, a Roman Catholic priest and prominent exorcist for the Archdiocese of Denver, told former U.S. Navy SEAL Shawn Ryan during an interview last month that he believes entities claiming to be extraterrestrial or interdimensional are demons attempting to be spiritually deceptive.
Noting most reported “alien abductions” have all the signs of traditional demonic possession, Ripperger said, “Those abduction scenarios, if you actually look at what the ‘aliens’ are supposedly doing, [it] is identical to the same things that demons do to people who are possessed.”
Ripperger, who recommended the 2004 book Alien Intrusion by Christian apologist Gary Bates, further observed that the messages typically relayed by alleged aliens to abductees relate to offering salvation to humanity apart from Jesus Christ, which he suggested offers a hint of their true identity and intentions.
Father Chad Ripperger on UFOs, aliens, and what the Bible actually says about extraterrestrial life and abduction phenomena. pic.twitter.com/1cmbZ9p02d
— Shawn Ryan (@ShawnRyan762) March 3, 2026
During another interview Ryan conducted in February, Christian apologist Wes Huff touched on the apocryphal three books of Enoch, which claim the race of evil giants mentioned in Genesis 6 as “Nephilim” were the offspring of fallen angels who copulated with human women before the Flood.
According to 1 Enoch 15, the disembodied spirits of the Nephilim were condemned to aimlessly wander the Earth after drowning in the Flood, and have since possessed humans in an attempt to regain a physical form and satisfy their insatiable appetites.
Though portions of the books of Enoch were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls and quoted by the apostle Jude, Huff dismissed them as obviously fake and not written by Noah’s great-grandfather, though he was “cautious” to outright dismiss the view that the giants of Genesis 6 were angel-human hybrids.
Huff noted that such an opinion was evidently prevalent among first-century Jews if it found its way into the books of Enoch, which are typically dated to several centuries before Christ.
Christian apologist Wes Huff speaks with former Navy SEAL Shawn Ryan on an episode of “The Shawn Ryan Show” that aired Feb. 12, 2026. | Screenshot/YouTube/Shawn Ryan Show
“I think some of it makes sense,” Huff said. “I think, on things that Scripture whispers about, I don’t want to yell too loudly. I’m very cautious. I think it’s entirely plausible, given what we see within Scripture, and the fact that it’s not 100 percent clear exactly what demons or even angels are.”
“But that’s what something like the book of Enoch is trying to flesh out,” he added.
Many of the earliest church fathers embraced the angel-human hybrid interpretation of Genesis 6, though it diminished sharply after Augustine of Hippo dismissed it in his theological writings in the fourth century.
Jon Brown is a reporter for The Christian Post. Send news tips to jon.brown@christianpost.com