The Vice President of the United States Believes UFOs Are Demons. He Hasn’t Read the Files Yet.

JD Vance has not reviewed any of the government’s classified UAP files. He admits this openly. He was “obsessed” with the UFO files when he took office, he says, then got busy. He still hasn’t made the trip to Area 51 he planned. He hasn’t made the New Mexico visit either. But he does know what he thinks the files will show when he gets there. Not extraterrestrials. Demons. The sitting Vice President of the United States has declared, on a nationally distributed podcast, that he believes the entities behind the UFO phenomenon are more likely demonic forces than alien life — and that the devil’s oldest trick is convincing people he doesn’t exist. Harvard’s Avi Loeb has since gone on NewsNation to respond.

The interview aired on a podcast hosted by conservative commentator Benny Johnson. The question was direct: would the Trump administration release all the UFO files, and had Vance peeked at any of them?

“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.”

He went on to describe multiple planned visits — to Area 51 in Nevada and to New Mexico — that had never materialized due to scheduling conflicts. He vowed to get to the bottom of the UAP question before Trump’s term ends. “Anybody who is curious about this, I am more curious than anybody. I’ve got three years at the very tippy top of the classification.”

Then came the theological turn.

“I don’t think they’re aliens,” Vance said. “I think they’re demons anyway, but that’s a longer discussion.”

Johnson pressed for that longer discussion. Vance obliged.

The Theological Framework

Vance, a Catholic convert who grew up an atheist, laid out a coherent if unusual framework. His position is not that the UFO phenomenon is imaginary — it’s that the religious interpretation has been systematically underestimated. “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 said.

He drew directly on the tradition of demonology rather than contact theory. “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 naturally go, when I hear about sort of extra-natural phenomenon, to the Christian understanding that there’s a lot of good out there, but there’s also some evil out there.”

He then invoked one of the central ideas in spiritual warfare theology: “I think that one of the devil’s great tricks is to convince people he never existed.”

This is not a fringe position in theological circles. The demonic interpretation of UAP encounters has been advanced by Catholic scholars, Protestant researchers, and Islamist thinkers for decades, often alongside rather than in opposition to the serious investigation of the phenomenon.

Avi Loeb’s Response

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, who heads the Galileo Project and has built three observatories specifically to monitor aerial objects using AI algorithms, appeared on NewsNation shortly after the Vance interview circulated. His response was measured but pointed.

“My thinking about it is not in the context of demons, but more in the context of aliens,” Loeb said. “If we are seeing any extraterrestrial technologies, the way I think of them is as the better angels of our nature. Why not be optimistic?”

Loeb also flagged something that has not received wide coverage: the 3I/ATLAS interstellar object, currently transiting the solar system, may have released smaller objects or probes along its trajectory. He noted a recent report from the American Meteor Society documenting a surge in meteor observations over the first quarter of 2026. “We should always look up,” Loeb said, adding that the connection to 3I/ATLAS was a possibility he had explored in a separate essay.

The files Vance hasn’t read yet remain classified. Trump’s February directive ordered their release. AARO says it has found no evidence of extraterrestrial activity. alien.gov launched today as an immigration portal. The Vice President says they’re demons — and he plans to find out for himself.

Sources: The Hill — JD Vance says he’s obsessed with UFO files, calls aliens demons — Fox News — JD Vance says he was obsessed with UFOs, believes aliens are actually demons — Newsweek — JD Vance reveals what he thinks UFOs are — HuffPost — JD Vance Believes UFOs Are One of the Devil’s Great Tricks — Washington Times — Forget little green men: Vance expects UFO files will show demons — Avi Loeb / Medium — Avi Loeb Comments on Vice President JD Vance’s Remarks that UFOs Might be Demons