The US vice president has vowed to examine the UFO files and “get to the bottom” of the matter with his “tippy top” access
US Vice President J.D. Vance has said aliens are in fact “demons,” vowing to dig into US government files on UFOs.
He made the remarks in an interview with podcaster Benny Johnson released on Friday. Vance discussed the UFO files and government disclosures, saying he is “obsessed” with the topic, but has not had enough time to “get to the bottom of it.”
“I’ve already had a couple of times where I’ve said, ‘All right, we’re going to Area 51, we’re going out to New Mexico, we’re going to sort of get to the bottom of this.’ And then the timing of the trip didn’t work out,” he said. “I’m more curious than anybody. And I’ve got three years at the very tippy top of the classification. I’m going to get to the bottom of it.”
Area 51 is a secretive US Air Force facility in southern Nevada that has long been linked to speculation about alien life.
Johnson asked Vance about President Donald Trump’s February order directing federal agencies to begin “identifying and releasing” government files related to UFOs and aliens. Trump said he was taking the step “based on the tremendous interest shown,” shortly after former President Barack Obama publicly said that aliens are “real.”
Trump later told reporters that Obama “gave classified information, he is not supposed to be doing that.”
In the interview, Vance told Johnson, “I don’t think they’re aliens. I think they’re demons,” describing this as a Christian understanding of “celestial beings who fly around who do weird things to people.”
Interest in UFOs and related phenomena has grown in recent years, as the US government has investigated numerous reports, including through the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), and established channels for pilots and the public to report sightings.
In March 2024, the Pentagon said it had no proof that any unidentified aerial phenomena are in fact alien technology, adding that many cases involved weather balloons, spy planes, satellites, and other routine activity.
