Vice President Vance on Wednesday shared his thoughts on UFOs and extraterrestrial phenomena potentially having a divine influence on what happens on Earth.
Vance talked about UFOs on the podcast “Pod Force One” with The New York Post’s Miranda Devine, who referred to herself in the interview as a “mad UFO-lunatic.” The vice president laughed and said “me too.”
While the vice president said he hasn’t “had the time yet” to dig into the issue, he maintained he would “get to the bottom of this” even if “it’ll take a long time.”
Devine noted that another senior member of the Trump administration, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, said she believed in the possibility of alien life.
“It’s interesting,” Vance replied. “I wouldn’t say that I do or don’t believe it. I’m a big believer that there are things out there that we can’t explain. And so if another person sees an alien, maybe I see an angel or a demon. So, I’m a big believer that there are like spiritual forces working on the physical world that a lot of us don’t see and a lot of us don’t understand and a lot of us don’t appreciate.
“Is it aliens or is it our guardian angel, or is it aliens or is it a not so guardian force that doesn’t care about us or in fact actively wishes us harm?” Vance continued. “I don’t know the answer to that question. What I try to do is I try to say my prayers, I try to be as good of a person as I can be and I try to do a good job. And, hopefully, that’s all I need to do.”
Vance also said that Secretary of State Marco Rubio was also interested in the topic, saying it is something they both talked about since their days working together in Senate.
“There’s certainly an interest there, there’s certainly an intrigue,” Vance said. “But I really haven’t yet had time to dig in. Things have been so busy. But this is the crazy person inside me. All of us put the tinfoil hat on from time to time.”
Miranda brought up the topic in reference to an interview Vance had on the “Ruthless Podcast” on Aug. 1, where he said he was “obsessed with the whole UFO thing.”
“What’s actually going on? What were those videos all about? What’s actually happening?” Vance said at the time. “I haven’t gotten to the bottom of it yet, but we’re only six months in.”
In September, Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) accused the federal government of lying about its knowledge of unexplained aerial phenomenon (UAP), commonly called UFOs. He made the accusation during a Task Force for the Declassification of Federal Secrets hearing, where he defended veterans who testified on seeing UAPs while in the military.
“The narrative has changed, right?” Moskowitz said. “It’s politically convenient for the government if you all weren’t military folks in suits. It would be much better if you pulled up in Winnebagos and were wearing hats. This is now the second or third committee where we have former military folks with impeccable records with information and knowledge.”
During Vance’s interview on “Pod Force One,” Rubio’s name also came up when the vice president referred to him as his “best friend” in the administration, spurred by the question of a Vance-Rubio 2028 ticket to succeed President Trump. Vance called any discussion about a future presidential run “premature.”
