VP JD Vance on UFOs/"demons" — Benny Johnson Show clip (2026)

Source: The Benny Johnson Show (YouTube clip, "The Vice President Just Told Me What Aliens REALLY Are…"), interview with Vice President JD Vance (filmed at the White House). Published: 2026-03-27. Duration: 4:55. URL: https://youtu.be/KiTJoPYiD_k Extraction: youtube_transcript.py (auto-captions; >> = Benny Johnson, unmarked = Vance), captured 2026-06-03. Verbatim auto-transcript of the UAP segment (clip also ends with an unrelated 2028/immigration exchange). Analysis: ../../sources/vance-uap-demons. Response: ../articles/loeb-vance-demons-newsnation-2026-03-31; critique: hank-green-ufos-demons-2026-04-02.

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[00:00:00.440] NO, NO, NO. THE FILES ARE COMING.
[00:00:03.680] GET AWAY FROM ME. STAY BACK.
[00:00:06.480] THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING. HELP.
[00:00:09.920] HE USED THE DISCOMBOBULATOR. [music]
[00:00:13.080] I cannot talk about the discombobulator.
[00:00:14.640] That's highly classified, Jimmy. It's my
[00:00:16.680] job to ask [music] these questions.
[00:00:18.320] You going to release all the UFO files?
[00:00:20.120] Uh we're working on it. It's funny. When
[00:00:21.760] I came in, I was obsessed with the UFO
[00:00:23.640] files, and then you start getting really
[00:00:25.720] busy worrying about the economy and
[00:00:27.280] national security and things like that.
[00:00:28.880] But I've still I've still got 3 more
[00:00:30.160] years as vice president. I will get to
[00:00:31.680] the bottom of the UFO files.
[00:00:32.920] >> Okay. Have you stealthily peeked?
[00:00:34.060] [laughter] Have you done a peek?
[00:00:35.560] Have I what?
[00:00:36.240] >> a peek? Have you done like a you know?
[00:00:37.960] So I actually haven't. I have not I I I
[00:00:40.600] I have I have
[00:00:41.920] >> [laughter]
[00:00:43.000] >> I have not been able to spend enough
[00:00:44.760] time on this to really understand it,
[00:00:46.720] but I am going to. Trust me. I'm
[00:00:48.360] obsessed with this. I've already had a
[00:00:50.080] couple of times where I'm like, all
[00:00:51.360] right, we're going to Area 51. We're
[00:00:53.360] going out to New Mexico. We're going to
[00:00:54.560] sort of get to the bottom of this. And
[00:00:56.200] then the timing of the trip just didn't
[00:00:57.640] work out, but trust me. Anybody who's
[00:01:00.080] curious about this, I'm more curious
[00:01:01.840] than anybody, and I've got 3 years of
[00:01:04.080] the very very tippy top of the
[00:01:06.080] classification. I'm going to get to the
[00:01:07.840] bottom of it.
[00:01:08.400] >> Okay, so you haven't been to Area 51
[00:01:10.160] yet.
[00:01:10.440] >> Not yet. Not yet.
[00:01:11.240] >> they keep the UFOs in Ohio.
[00:01:13.400] Yeah, Hangar 18. Hangar 18, right? I
[00:01:15.920] I've heard that as well, but I don't
[00:01:18.040] know. I haven't looked into it yet.
[00:01:19.360] >> Okay. All right. All right. Well, we're
[00:01:20.800] waiting for it. We saw aliens down
[00:01:22.080] there.
[00:01:22.640] >> We saw aliens down there.
[00:01:23.640] >> I don't think they're I don't think
[00:01:24.560] they're aliens. I think they're demons
[00:01:25.720] anyway, but that's a longer discussion.
[00:01:27.880] >> Well, I can't let you go without a
[00:01:29.320] follow-up question.
[00:01:29.735] >> [laughter]
[00:01:30.080] >> This is Barack Obama is on this podcast,
[00:01:32.000] and he goes, yeah, aliens are real, but
[00:01:33.760] like here's where they're not. And you I
[00:01:36.240] did not
[00:01:37.200] And so Obama says he has aliens or he
[00:01:39.160] gets asked point-blank, alien are aliens
[00:01:40.760] real? He says, oh yeah. And then he
[00:01:42.200] goes, but they're not at Area 51.
[00:01:44.120] And and Well, where are they, Barack?
[00:01:45.880] >> Well, that's what he says. Right. It's a
[00:01:47.400] great question. Trump had to go save
[00:01:49.160] him, and he said he's going to
[00:01:49.960] declassify. So you think they're demons?
[00:01:52.640] Well, look, I I think that celestial
[00:01:55.200] beings
[00:01:57.160] who fly around, who do weird things to
[00:02:00.600] people,
[00:02:01.960] I think that the desire to describe
[00:02:04.880] everything celestial, everything as
[00:02:07.280] otherworldly, to describe it as aliens,
[00:02:10.240] I mean, every great world religion,
[00:02:11.960] including Christianity, the one that I
[00:02:14.040] believe in, has has understood that
[00:02:17.040] there are weird things out there, and
[00:02:18.600] there are things that are very difficult
[00:02:19.880] to explain. And I I naturally go, when I
[00:02:22.920] hear about sort of extra natural
[00:02:25.680] phenomenon, that's where I go to is the
[00:02:27.960] Christian understanding that, you know,
[00:02:29.760] there's a lot of good out there, but
[00:02:30.960] there's also some evil out there, and I
[00:02:32.880] think that one of the devil's great
[00:02:34.160] tricks is to convince people he never
[00:02:35.560] existed.
[00:02:36.680] Yes. Uh okay. I've been given the wrap,
[00:02:39.240] but here we go. I can't let you go
[00:02:40.480] without one final question. The last
[00:02:41.800] question.
[00:02:42.240] >> All right. All right.
[00:02:43.920] I'm not going to ask you about running
[00:02:44.960] in 2028. I won't. Okay, I won't. I've
[00:02:46.800] heard the answer a million times. But I
[00:02:48.440] will ask you this.
[00:02:50.800] Since we started on fraud, and since
[00:02:52.640] it's going to come back to it,
[00:02:54.960] if, perhaps, hypothetically,
[00:02:57.680] there was a 2028 run,
[00:02:59.800] um would you rather got run against
[00:03:02.560] Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris, or AOC? Oh
[00:03:05.367] >> [laughter]
[00:03:05.400] >> God.
[00:03:07.040] Oh man. That's you just asked the
[00:03:10.000] question. You just asked it in a
[00:03:11.520] different way to try to trick me. I'm
[00:03:12.960] not nearly as easy to trick, but look,
[00:03:16.960] I'll say this about the Democrats.
[00:03:19.480] They don't seem to have a very strong
[00:03:21.920] bench,
[00:03:23.080] and I'm not too worried about any of
[00:03:25.080] these people as political candidates. I
[00:03:26.840] am worried about them as potential
[00:03:28.040] presidents, cuz they're all in their own
[00:03:29.840] way nightmares. The thing that I I
[00:03:32.880] I mean, I continue to find very
[00:03:34.360] interesting about the modern Democratic
[00:03:36.240] Party
[00:03:37.200] is on the one hand, they say that they
[00:03:39.200] stand for working people, and on the
[00:03:41.520] other hand, they support the importation
[00:03:43.600] of millions and millions of people who
[00:03:46.240] undercut the wages of working people,
[00:03:48.200] who take away housing and health care
[00:03:49.720] from working people, who stretch the
[00:03:51.600] social fabric that normal Americans
[00:03:53.840] depend on. And I just think until the
[00:03:56.280] Democrat Party wakes up to the fact that
[00:03:59.120] I mean, Cesar Chavez, the old like
[00:04:01.480] socialist union organizer who hated
[00:04:04.120] illegal immigration, recognized this,
[00:04:06.280] that you cannot stand for working people
[00:04:08.520] and mass immigration. You have to choose
[00:04:10.360] one. Until the Democrats make a smart
[00:04:12.200] choice, I'm not worried about who they
[00:04:13.400] nominate, but God forbid any one of
[00:04:15.440] those people ever became president,
[00:04:16.720] because then we would have what Biden
[00:04:18.680] did to this country on steroids.
[00:04:20.640] >> And now Jimmy Kimmel's making fun of
[00:04:21.720] plumbers.
[00:04:22.800] You see that? Mark Wahlberg upstairs. As
[00:04:24.880] >> Mark Wahlberg's a plumber. Shame on him.
[00:04:26.760] He shouldn't be in charge of our
[00:04:27.600] security.
[00:04:28.120] >> You'll be shocked to find out that I
[00:04:29.360] don't watch Jimmy Kimmel on the regular.
[00:04:31.440] I I deal with enough annoying people as
[00:04:33.280] it is.
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