VP JD Vance pledges to unravel UFO mystery
By: Sophie Brams (The Hill)
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Vice President JD Vance revealed in a new interview that he is “obsessed” with unidentified flying objects , or UFOs, vowing to get to the bottom of the mystery before leaving office.
“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 gonna get to the bottom of it,” he said on an episode of conservative commentator Benny Johnson’s podcast.
Johnson asked Vance during the interview released Friday whether the Trump administration would release all the UFO files and whether he had “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.”
The vice president told Johnson that he had previously planned trips to Area 51 — a highly classified military facility in the Nevada desert at the epicenter of alien conspiracies — and New Mexico, but the timing never worked out.
He then suggested that the concept of aliens was a human attempt to explain the unexplainable, saying that he believes it’s a different force behind the phenomena.
“I don’t think they’re aliens, I think they’re demons anyway, but that’s a longer discussion,” Vance said, prompting Johnson to seek clarification.
“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,” the vice president continued. “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.”
His comments come after former President Barack Obama piqued the interest of many Americans when he said on a separate podcast last month that aliens were “real ,” but he had not seen them, and they were not being held at Area 51.
Obama attempted to walk back his affirmation the next day, saying that he “saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us.”
“I was trying to stick with the spirit of the speed round, but since it’s gotten attention, let me clarify. Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there,” Obama said in a post on Instagram .
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Does this mean that the Space Force is going to be battling literal "demons" ? Sounds like the plot of a Christian nationalists wet dream Marvel movie.
I think they exist. It's arrogant thinking to think we are alone in this universe
I agree that we are probably not the only planet with life when we pretty much know there are several billions of habitable planets. However, the probability they exist here is very, very, very low. There are theories that 'the gray' aliens aren't from another planet, but future humans that go back in time to find out how to fix what we'd fucked up. This idea can be traced back in literature as far as 1861.
Here's a mind bender... If someone goes back in time will the universe allow change? Would we know it changed, or would we all just have new memories as if it were what we always knew? Would the change create a new parallel time stream where the original incident was never changed and a new one where it did? Time travel has problems.
Good questions. I've always liked fiction about time travel. I believe in the alternate timeline theory. Where someone goes back in time, changes one thing, and another timeline is formed. I think that's more plausible than trying to change something in time and every thing continues as normal
There must be a lot of fucked up things in the future if so many of them have to come back.
Demons. In flying saucers.
Ok can we just stop briefing this guy on important shit? Because…damn.
But Demons is rational?
Noooo…you don’t get to hang this on Christianity, either. You may or may not have seen a thing in the sky that you can’t explain. Nothing in Christianity says “must be demons.” Also…why is it evil??? You can’t explain it, therefore it’s evil? Who thinks like that?
How is it possible this VP is even dumber than this president?
He is, and the right wingers want him to be the next President. Tells us a whole lot.
practice.
He was born that way.
Vance is trying to be the perfect representative for his base. Tells one a lot about how utterly stupid he believes his base to be.
going from sky fairies to little green men isn't that much of a stretch for the majority of them ...
This is just it. His base are die hard Evangelicals, and demons are a tool they know how to use against anyone not them.
I guess Trump gave Vance a special assignment to keep him busy.
This is really easy, JD. There are no aliens who have visited Earth. It is considered impossible unless they have somehow got around the problem of spacetime (the time and energy it takes to travel from where intelligent life might be to our planet). Based on theoretical physics (i.e. being most generous), it appears to be an impossibility.
Personally, it seems highly unlikely that in the vastness of all reality, no alien life forms exist. If they do exist (likely IMO), we will almost certainly never meet.
if they have the tech to get here, they have the ability to do it and remain undiscovered ...
JD will figure it out.
Demon tech!
let them run with it. the alien abduction theory will come in handy when maga troglodytes start disappearing from the face of the earth ...
I knew he would play the God card when it came to extraterrestrials.
jd is still required to provide a full spectrum of oral services to his mentor peter thiel ...
Why would demons hide from us? Are they afraid we’ll kill them and they’ll end up in hell, where they already are?