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JD Vance says aliens are ‘demons’ and details obsession with UFOs

The Guardian · 🇬🇧 public United Kingdom · · 552 words · By Richard Luscombe
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What to know about JD Vance says aliens are ‘demons’ and details obsession with UFOs

JD Vance, the vice-president of the United States, said this weekend that he considers aliens to be “demons”.

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What happened

JD Vance, the vice-president of the United States, said this weekend that he considers aliens to be “demons”.

Why it matters

As the war in Iran continues, petrol and grocery prices soar and chaos continues at US airports as a partial government shutdown endures, Vance appeared on the conservative Benny Show podcast, released Saturday, to promise that he would spend time looking…

Common ground

Johnson, who bills his show as the place for “cutting, behind-the-scenes insight into the global conflict for freedom”, wondered if Vance, who has been noticeably quiet about Donald Trump’s war in the Middle East that he is said to oppose, had yet looked at…

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Claim 1: “Johnson, who bills his show as the place for 'cutting, behind-the-scenes insight into the global conflict for freedom', wondered if Vance had yet looked at any of the files about unidentified flying objects – known these days as unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) – which the president has promised to release.”
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Claim 2: “JD Vance, the vice-president of the United States, said this weekend that he considers aliens to be 'demons'.”
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Claim 3: “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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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, is a component of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) responsible for cybersecuri…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 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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Claim 4: “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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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anna Paulina Luna (née Mayerhofer; born May 6, 1989) is an American politician and Air Force veteran serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 13th congressional district since 2023. A member o…
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Claim 5: “I don’t think they’re aliens, I think they’re demons anyway, but that’s a longer discussion”
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Claim 6: “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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Claim 7: “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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Claim 8: “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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Claim 9: “We’re working on it,”
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Claim 10: “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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