In a recent interview Vice President J.D. Vance disclosed that he is “obsessed” with UFOs and aliens and is determined to solve the mystery before leaving office. He stated that, “Trust me, anybody who’s curious about this, I’m more curious than anybody, and I’ve got three years of the very tippy-top of the classification. I’m going to get to the bottom of it.” During the same interview, however, he expressed the opinion that, “I don’t think they’re aliens, I think they’re demons anyway, but that’s a longer discussion.”
Vance admitted that he had not “peeked” at any of the government’s allegedly secret UFO files that are due to be released to the public by the Trump Administration, but gives assurances that, “I have not been able to spend enough time on this, but I am going to. Trust me, I’m obsessed with this.” He intimated that he had previously planned to visit Area 51, the Nevada site where captured alien tech is supposedly being tested, but the timing never worked out.
His comments come after former President Obama, speaking on a podcast, admitted that he believed that aliens were real, but that he had seen no evidence of alien contact during his presidency. Soon after these remarks, President Trump announced that he would direct the relevant government agencies to release their files about UFOs due to the intense public interest in this controversial subject. The White House has registered the internet domain names “Alien.gov” and Aliens.gov, fueling conjecture that disclosure of this material may be imminent.
During the interview, Vance reiterated his belief that his Christian faith compelled him to believe that extraterrestrials may represent demonic entities. “I mean every great world religion, including Christianity, the one that I believe in, has understood that there are things that are very difficult to explain,” he stated, “And I naturally go, when I hear about sort of extra-natural phenomenon, that’s where I go, is the Christian understanding that, you know, there’s a lot of good out there, but there’s also some evil out there.”
Vance is not the only government official who has expressed the opinion that Christian theology posits a demonic origin for the alien presence. In his book Imminent, former head of the U.S. Government’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon investigative group, revealed that some of his superiors in the organization also held this opinion. And in a recent interview Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke declared that, “They’re demonic beings that make an appearance and appear to be real—and they are real. Satan can appear as an angel of light.”
Despite the fact that some high-profile Christians have expressed this opinion, no one has yet been able to provide a specific basis in scripture for this belief
Sources:
- The Hill, 3/28
- Fox News 3/28
- Charisma Magazine 3/19
Paul Meehan is a member of Colorado MUFON and is the author of ten books, including Saucer Movies: A UFOlogial History of the Cinema and Alien Abduction in the Cinema. His work has been featured in the Turner Classic Movies web site, Cinefantastique online, the Noir City Sentinel and the MUFON journal.