Overview
- Vice President J.D. Vance said in a podcast interview that he is obsessed with UFOs and plans to dive into the files over the remaining three years of his term.
- Vance said he does not think the unexplained sightings involve aliens and, from his Catholic view, described the phenomena as demons.
- The Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office reported in 2024 that it found no empirical evidence that unidentified anomalous phenomena are of extraterrestrial origin.
- A 2021 U.S. intelligence assessment logged about 140 incidents since 2004 and said there was not enough data to pin down specific causes.
- President Trump has called for agencies to identify and publish UFO-related records, while Barack Obama said the phenomena are real but that he has not seen them himself.