Vice President Vance shared that he is absolutely “obsessed” with unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, and he’s vowing to finally uncover the truth before his time in office is up. This is a pretty big claim, especially coming from someone with access to some of the highest levels of classified information.
“Trust me, anybody 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. I’m going to get to the bottom of it,” Vance stated on conservative commentator Benny Johnson’s podcast, as reported by The Hill.
When Johnson pressed him on whether the Trump administration would release all its UFO files and if Vance had already “peeked” at any of them, the Vice President admitted he hadn’t. “I actually haven’t,” Vance replied. “I have not been able to spend enough time on this, but I am going to. Trust me, I’m obsessed with this.”
Vance even mentioned that he’d previously made plans to visit notorious locations like Area 51
Area 51 is that classified military facility in the Nevada desert that’s always at the heart of alien conspiracy theories, and also New Mexico, though the timing just never worked out. He didn’t stop there, though. The Vice President then went on to suggest that the whole concept of aliens might just be our human attempt to explain things we can’t quite grasp. He thinks there’s a totally different force at play here.
“I don’t think they’re aliens, I think they’re demons anyway, but that’s a longer discussion,” Vance said. Vance explained his reasoning, “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.” He continued, “And I naturally go, when I hear about sort of extra-natural 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 evil out there.”
Vance’s comments come on the heels of some other high-profile discussions about UFOs. Just last month, former President Obama stirred up a lot of interest when he said on a separate podcast that aliens were “real,” though he clarified he hadn’t seen them himself, and they certainly weren’t being held at Area 51.
He tried to walk back those comments the very next day, posting on Instagram, “I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us.” Obama added, “I was trying to stick with the spirit of the speed round, but since it’s gotten attention, let me clarify. Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there.”
Following all that buzz, President Trump pledged a few days later to direct the Department of Defense and other agencies to release their files about UFOs and “alien and extraterrestrial life” to the public. He cited the “tremendous” public interest as the reason. President Trump had previously told reporters he didn’t actually know if aliens were real, and he even joked that he “may get him out of trouble” by declassifying records, referring to Obama.
Adding to all the speculation, the White House recently registered the domain names “Alien.gov” and “Aliens.gov” earlier this month.
Published: Mar 30, 2026 02:45 pm