JD Vance says aliens are ‘demons’ and details obsession with UFOs

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JD Vance says aliens are ‘demons’ and details obsession with UFOs Vice-president promises ‘to get to the bottom of’ reports of US government files about unidentified flying objects Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Richard Luscombe Tue 31 Mar 2026 00.29 AEDT Share Prefer the Guardian on Google JD Vance, the vice-president of the United States, said this weekend that he considers aliens to be “demons”. With the war in Iran continuing, petrol and grocery prices soaring, and chaos continuing at US airports as a partial government shutdown endures, Vance appeared on the conservative Benny Show podcast, released on Saturday, to promise that he would spend time looking into what he called his “obsession” with UFOs and extraterrestrial visitors.

Johnson, who bills his show as the place for “cutting, behind-the-scenes insight into the global conflict for freedom”, wondered if Vance, who has been noticeably quiet about Donald Trump’s war in the Middle East that he is said to oppose, had yet looked at any of the files about unidentified flying objects – known these days as unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) – which the president has promised to release. Is the truth out there? US registers aliens.gov as Trump pledges UFO files release Read more “I actually haven’t,” Vance replied, mustering significantly more enthusiasm than for any previous question about the US-Israel military strikes on Iran. “I have not been able to spend enough time on this, but I am going to. Trust me, I’m obsessed with this.”

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