Vice President JD Vance Dismisses UFOs as the Devil’s Grand Deception

File this under: quotes I did not expect to type from a sitting vice president. JD Vance just went on YouTube and said he thinks the so-called aliens people talk about are... demons. Not a metaphor. Actual demons.

What Vance actually said

"I don’t think they’re aliens. I think they’re demons anyway, but that’s a longer discussion."

The 41-year-old vice president laid out his thinking in an interview published Saturday, March 28, telling host Benny Johnson that when people describe "celestial" beings doing unexplainable things, he filters that through his Christian worldview. Vance noted he grew up atheist, later converted to Catholicism, and believes the world contains both good and evil forces. He also argued one of the devil’s favorite moves is convincing people he doesn’t exist.

About that UFO disclosure promise

Johnson pressed him earlier in the interview on whether the administration planned to "release all the UFO files." Vance’s answer: "We’re working on it, " pointing back to President Donald Trump’s February pledge to direct agencies to start identifying and releasing government material related to aliens and extraterrestrial life. As of now, nothing has actually been released.

Vance admitted he came into office "obsessed" with UFO files, but said governing took over — economy, national security, the usual — and promised he still has three more years to dig in and "get to the bottom" of it.

Context on the interviewer

Johnson is a far-right YouTuber who, in 2024, was reported to be among several ultra-conservative creators who received covert funding tied to Russian state media. That backstory makes this already unusual exchange even more eyebrow-raising.

The Obama wrinkle

Part of why this conversation keeps flaring up: Barack Obama briefly set the internet on fire in February. In a February 13 chat with political podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen, the former president, 64, said "They’re real" — which many people heard as a confirmation of alien life. He immediately tempered it, saying he hadn’t personally seen anything that would definitively prove aliens exist and joking that they’re not parked at Area 51 or stashed in some underground bunker "unless there’s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the president of the United States."

Two days later on Instagram, Obama clarified what he meant. In plain English: the universe is vast enough that life somewhere else is statistically likely, but the distances are so huge that the odds we’ve been visited are low, and he saw zero evidence of contact during his presidency.

Where this leaves things

• Vance’s take is theological, not sci-fi: he frames unexplained phenomena as spiritual warfare, not space visitors.
• He says the administration is "working on" UFO transparency, echoing Trump’s February directive, but to date no files have been released.
• Obama’s February "They’re real" moment was about probability, not proof; he later spelled out that he saw no evidence of alien contact while in office.