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On March 27, 2026, during a lighthearted interview with Catholic Vice President J.D. Vance, conservative podcaster Benny Johnson asked his guest, “You gonna release all the UFO files?” The Vice President, acknowledging his obsession with the topic at hand, declared his eagerness to “get to the bottom of it.” The two of them bantered for a bit about Area 51, but then Vance uttered an unexpected remark: “You know me—you know me. I don’t think they’re aliens…I think they’re demons anyway, but that’s a long discussion.”
When the interviewer pressed him to elucidate further, Vance seemed to fumble a little for the right words, but concluded, “Every great world religion including Christianity, the one that I believe in, has understood that there are weird things out there…there’s a lot of good out there, but there’s also some evil out there, and I think that one of the devil’s great tricks is to convince people he never existed.” After a beat, Johnson quickly segued to another subject, but it was the UFO conversation that seized the imagination of the Internet over the next several weeks.
In a news release on the third of June, the Cardinal of Washington, DC suddenly announced the dismissal of his Archdiocesan Exorcist, Msgr. Stephen Rossetti, for statements that “undermine the Church’s very precise teaching on the devil, demons, and exorcism.” Rossetti’s crime? Echoing a very similar position to the one that Vance had articulated a few months previously: “This is not de fide,” he had said in an online video, “But it’s my personal belief that probably many, if not most of these ‘UFO sightings’ are demons.”
In support of his conviction, Rossetti had cited Ephesians 6:12: “For our struggle is not with flesh and blood, but with the principalities, powers, and rulers of this present darkness.” Drawing on his nineteen years of exorcism ministry, Rossetti had opined that demons prefer to hide so that they can more effectively manipulate their human victims. He had then enumerated some of the forms in which demons had materialized during exorcism sessions in which he had taken part: balls of light, shadowy figures, frightening hands, images of grotesque creatures. On a recent occasion, he had said, a woman known within his ministry for her unusual gift of spiritual discernment had examined the photograph of a UFO and immediately identified it as a demon.
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When the interviewer pressed him to elucidate further, Vance seemed to fumble a little for the right words, but concluded, “Every great world religion including Christianity, the one that I believe in, has understood that there are weird things out there…there’s a lot of good out there, but there’s also some evil out there, and I think that one of the devil’s great tricks is to convince people he never existed.” After a beat, Johnson quickly segued to another subject, but it was the UFO conversation that seized the imagination of the Internet over the next several weeks.
In a news release on the third of June, the Cardinal of Washington, DC suddenly announced the dismissal of his Archdiocesan Exorcist, Msgr. Stephen Rossetti, for statements that “undermine the Church’s very precise teaching on the devil, demons, and exorcism.” Rossetti’s crime? Echoing a very similar position to the one that Vance had articulated a few months previously: “This is not de fide,” he had said in an online video, “But it’s my personal belief that probably many, if not most of these ‘UFO sightings’ are demons.”
In support of his conviction, Rossetti had cited Ephesians 6:12: “For our struggle is not with flesh and blood, but with the principalities, powers, and rulers of this present darkness.” Drawing on his nineteen years of exorcism ministry, Rossetti had opined that demons prefer to hide so that they can more effectively manipulate their human victims. He had then enumerated some of the forms in which demons had materialized during exorcism sessions in which he had taken part: balls of light, shadowy figures, frightening hands, images of grotesque creatures. On a recent occasion, he had said, a woman known within his ministry for her unusual gift of spiritual discernment had examined the photograph of a UFO and immediately identified it as a demon.
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