Vice President J.D. Vance admitted he's obsessed with classified UFO files.

Hasn't read a single one yet, and revealed his working theory. Those things in the sky aren't aliens.

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The U.S. government has been collecting reports of unidentified and aerial phenomena for decades,

from Project Blue Books, more than 12,000 cataloged sightings between 1952 and 1969, to the

secret $22 million Pentagon program, exposed by the New York Times in 2017, to the Old

Domain Anomily Resolution Office, now managing over 2,000

active cases.

That much is a matter of public record.

What nobody predicted is that the most candid public conversation about that history

in 2026 would happen on a podcast, and that the guest doing the most surprising talking

would be the Vice President of the United

States. The Benny Show is a podcast hosted by conservative commentator Benny Johnson. In late

March 2026, Vice President J.D. Vance sat down with Johnson for a wide-ranging interview conducted

in the Executive Vice President's office at the White House. When Johnson asked whether

the Trump administration would release all of its UFO files and whether Vance had peaked

at any of them, the answer was not what Johnson expected. Vance had not looked at a single file.

He explained that when he first came into office, he was consumed by the subject. The UFO vials were

one of the first things on his mind. Then the economy demanded attention. Then national

security, then a hundred other things that crowd out the curiosity of a new administration.

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