JD Vance says aliens are ‘demons’ and details obsession with UFOs
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“JD Vance, the vice-president of the United States, said this weekend that he considers aliens to be 'demons'.”
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“Vance appeared on the conservative Benny Show podcast, released Saturday, to promise that he would spend time looking into what he called his 'obsession' with UFOs and extraterrestrial visitors.”
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“I have not been able to spend enough time on this, but I am going to. Trust me, I’m obsessed with this.”
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“I don’t think they’re aliens, I think they’re demons anyway, but that’s a longer discussion”
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“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.”
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“Barack Obama was forced to make a hasty clarification last month after initially declaring aliens 'real' on the American podcast with Brian Tyler Cohen.”
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“Donald Trump announced on his Truth Social platform that he had instructed various agencies 'to begin the process of identifying and releasing government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life… and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters'.”
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“The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency registered the alien.gov and aliens.gov web domains, adding both to the official government website registry.”
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— The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act of 2018 (H.R. 3359, Pub. L. 115–278 (text) (PDF)) was signed by president Donald Trump on November 16, 2018, to establish the Cybersecurity an…
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“We’re working on it,”
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