Vice President JD Vance says he is “obsessed” with unidentified flying objects and intends to use his remaining time in office to get to the bottom of a mystery that has captivated the American public for decades.

“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,” Vance said on conservative commentator Benny Johnson’s podcast, released Friday.

Asked whether he had “peeked” at any of the administration’s UFO files, Vance said he had not. “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 also said he had previously planned visits to Area 51, the highly classified military facility in the Nevada desert that has become the symbolic center of alien conspiracy theories, though the timing never came together.

Vance then offered his own theory about what might be behind the phenomena.

“I don’t think they’re aliens, I think they’re demons anyway, but that’s a longer discussion,” he said, before elaborating when pressed. “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,” Vance continued. “And I naturally go, when I hear about sort of extra-natural phenomenon, that’s where I go, is the Christian understanding that there’s a lot of good out there, but there’s also some evil out there.”

The remarks come amid a broader moment of unusual official candor on the subject. Former President Barack Obama said on a podcast last month that aliens were “real” but that he had not seen them and they were not being held at Area 51. He attempted to walk back the comments the following day, posting on Instagram that he “saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us,” and clarifying that he had been responding to the spirit of a rapid-fire interview format rather than making a substantive claim.

President Trump pledged shortly afterward to direct the Department of Defense and other agencies to release their UFO files to the public, citing what he called “tremendous” interest in the topic. He also told reporters that declassifying records might “get him out of trouble,” referring to Obama.

The White House added a practical signal to the rhetorical momentum earlier this month, registering the domain names “Alien.gov” and “Aliens.gov,” prompting speculation that a formal disclosure of some kind may be forthcoming.

(YWN World Headquarters – NYC)