US Vice President JD Vance promises to "get to the bottom" of US government files reporting on unidentified flying objects.
JD Vance, the vice president of the United States, said this weekend that he considers aliens "demons," the Telegraph reports.
As the war in Iran continues, gasoline and food prices rise sharply and chaos continues at American airports as the partial government shutdown continues, Vance appeared on the conservative podcast The Benny Show, released on Saturday, to promise to spend time examining what he called his "obsession" with UFOs and extraterrestrial visitors.
Johnson, who bills his show as the place for “a detailed, behind-the-scenes look at the global conflict for freedom,” wondered whether Vance, who has been notably silent on Donald Trump’s war in the Middle East, which he reportedly opposes, had seen any of the files on unidentified flying objects — known these days as unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) — that the president has promised to release.
"Actually I don't," Vance replied, displaying far more enthusiasm than he had for any previous question about the US-Israeli military attacks on Iran.
"I haven't been able to devote enough time to this, but I will. Believe me, I'm obsessed with this," he added.
The God-fearing vice president's obsession, it was further revealed, extended to the issue of the existence of extraterrestrial beings and where they might fit into a broader conversation about religion.
"I don't think they're aliens, I think they're demons anyway, but that's a longer discussion," he said.
Johnson asked him to expand.
"Well, look, I think celestial beings flying around, doing strange things to people. I think the desire to describe everything celestial, everything otherworldly, to describe it as aliens," Vance said.
"Every major world religion, including Christianity, which I believe in, has understood that there are strange things out there, and there are things that are very difficult to explain. And I naturally think, when I hear about some kind of supernatural phenomenon, that's where I go, is the Christian understanding that, you know, there's a lot of good out there, but there's also some bad out there. I think one of the great tricks of the devil is to convince people that he never existed," he added.
Vance's reflections and promise to "go all the way" came as both Trump and his predecessor, Barack Obama, opened up to scrutiny over what they knew about UAPs. /Telegraph/
