Vance Weighs In on UFOs: ‘I Don’t Think They’re Aliens – I Think They’re Demons’
Vice President J.D. Vance addressed the subject of UFOs and unidentified aerial phenomena in a new interview, saying he believes they are not extraterrestrial but instead something supernatural referenced in Scripture.
Vance addressed the issue in an interview with Benny Johnson, who asked if the Trump administration plans to release the full range of UFO files in government archives. Vance said the administration is “working on it,” but added that his attention has been more focused on priorities such as the economy.
But Vance said he has a keen interest in the subject.
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“I have not been able to spend enough time on this to really understand it, but I am going to – trust me, I'm obsessed with this,” Vance said. “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 … [to] get to the bottom of this – and then the timing of the trip just didn't work out.
“But trust me, anybody who's curious about this – I'm more curious than anybody,” Vance said, adding he has three more years to investigate it during the current Trump-Vance term.
“I'm gonna get to the bottom of it,” he said.
Vance then added that he believes such phenomena have a spiritual explanation.
“I don't think they're aliens. I think they're demons anyway, but that's a longer discussion,” he said.
Johnson, not willing to leave the topic there, asked the vice president to expand on his view.
Vance said it is unwise, as a Christian, to assume all unexplained phenomena are extraterrestrial.
“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 – 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.
“And I naturally go – when I hear about [some] sort of extra-natural phenomenon, that's where I go to, is the Christian understanding.”
Vance said such beliefs align with a broader biblical view of spiritual reality.
“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.”
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Michael Foust has covered the intersection of faith and news for 20 years. His stories have appeared in Baptist Press, Christianity Today, The Christian Post, the Leaf-Chronicle, the Toronto Star and the Knoxville News-Sentinel.
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Originally published March 30, 2026.
