- Vance revealed Rubio has long been quietly investigating UAPs, signaling high-level Republican interest and bipartisan national security concern.
- Congressional momentum and whistleblower claims (crashed craft, non‑human biologics, USOs) are turning UFOs from fringe talk into serious oversight.
WASHINGTON—In a moment that’s got Washington insiders buzzing and conspiracy enthusiasts firing up their forums, Vice President JD Vance let slip on a podcast this week that his closest ally in the Trump administration—Secretary of State Marco Rubio—has been quietly researching the UFO phenomena for years.
The revelation, delivered with Vance’s signature mix of folksy candor and a dash of self-deprecating humor, comes amid a surge of congressional scrutiny over unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs, that’s turning what used to be late-night bar talk into prime-time national security debate.
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It happened on Wednesday’s episode of the New York Post’s Pod Force One, hosted by columnist Miranda Devine.
Vance, 41, was riffing on his inner circle when Devine—self-proclaimed “mad UFO lunatic”—prodded him about his own unfulfilled vow to peel back the curtain on government secrets surrounding mysterious aerial sightings.
“Me too,” Vance shot back with a laugh, before pivoting straight to Rubio. “I really want to sort of dig into it. You know, Marco’s actually very interested in this, too. We talked about this a little. We talked about this back in our Senate days.”
For anyone who’s followed the two Ohio and Florida Republicans’ bromance, this tracks. Vance has repeatedly called Rubio, 54, his “best friend in the administration,” dismissing whispers of rivalry as successor speculation.
“Uh, first of all, no. There’s not going to be any tension. Marco is my best friend in the administration, and he and I work a lot together,” Vance said earlier in the chat.
Their bond dates back to shared Senate stints, where apparently, alongside policy wonkery, they bonded over the skies above restricted airspace.
Vance admitted his own dive into the topic has been sidelined by the grind of D.C. life—”Things have been so busy”—but vowed not to let it slide.
“This is like the crazy person inside of me… I wonder, like, I can’t allow myself to become so busy that I spend the next three years and I don’t get to the bottom of this. So, I will get to the bottom of this, but it’s going to take me a little time.”
Declassified Briefings Now Turn Conspiracy Theories into Reality
Rubio’s fascination isn’t some recent fever dream; it’s a thread running through his career like a recurring classified briefing. As far back as 2021, when he was vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Rubio was sounding alarms about incursions over military zones.
“We have stuff flying over restricted military airspace,” he told Congress that year.
He pushed for an unclassified report from the Director of National Intelligence and Defense Secretary, telling 60 Minutes at the time: “Anything that enters an airspace that’s not supposed to be there is a threat.”
Rubio acknowledged the eye-rolls at the time—”There’s a stigma on Capitol Hill… some kinda, you know, giggle when you bring it up”—but insisted on a systematic approach. “I want us to take it seriously and have a process to take it seriously.”
Fast-forward to this year, and Rubio’s gone full throttle. In the trailer for the upcoming documentary The Age of Disclosure—set for theaters and Prime Video release on November 22—he drops a line that’s equal parts chilling and interesting: “We’ve had repeated instances of something operating in the airspace over restricted nuclear facilities—and it’s not ours.”
The film, directed by Dan Farah, alleges an 80-year global cover-up of non-human intelligence and features a who’s-who of insiders, from retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James Clapper to Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Mike Rounds
Rubio doesn’t stop there, hinting at the layers of secrecy: “Even presidents have been operating on a need-to-know basis, but that begins to ramp out of control.”
He confesses the topic “keeps me up at night,” underscoring why heavy-hitters like him are risking the tinfoil-hat label to speak out.
The stigma, however, now seems to be gone as more Americans approach the subject with curiosity.
Non Human Biologics Are Now in the Talks at the Pentagon
This isn’t Rubio flying solo. His UFO file reads like a greatest-hits album of congressional intrigue. In 2023, as whistleblowers like ex-intelligence officer David Grusch alleged the Pentagon was hoarding crashed craft and “non-human biologics,” Rubio backed the chorus calling for daylight.
“People who we entrusted to do some really important things for our country are saying some pretty incredible things that I think we have an obligation to take seriously and listen to,” he told NewsNation, noting high-clearance insiders had come forward to his committee with firsthand accounts.
That July hearing—Congress’s first big UAP splash in decades—saw Grusch claim under oath a “multi-decade” reverse-engineering program, sparking bipartisan demands for transparency.
Rubio echoed the frustration: “What is undisputed is that there are things flying over restricted airspace… and they claim it’s not ours. That alone is reason to be looking at this stuff.”
The momentum hasn’t slowed. Last November, another House Oversight hearing grilled witnesses on secrecy, with journalist Michael Shellenberger urging lawmakers to defund any hidden programs and adopt transparency bills.
“UAP transparency is bi-partisan and critical to our national security,” he testified, laying out a timeline of sightings from 1947 onward.
Rear Adm. Tim Gallaudet (ret.) hammered home the stakes: With $900 billion slated for defense in 2025, “we still have an incomplete understanding of what is in our airspace.”
Then, in September, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s task force hosted yet another session, where Navy vets described “self-luminous” objects bursting from the ocean and Tic Tac-shaped anomalies zipping over ships—echoing the 2004 Nimitz encounters that first blew the lid off pilot reports.
Vance’s own UFO itch goes back months. In August, he told the Ruthless podcast he’s “obsessed with the whole UFO thing,” fixating on 2024’s viral videos and vowing to probe during recess.
“What’s actually going on? What were those videos all about? What’s actually happening?”
It’s a far cry from the days when pilots risked psych evals for reporting weirdness. Now, with the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) fielding tips and Senate amendments mandating disclosure, the stigma’s fading — quickly.
Even Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, chatting on the same Pod Force One episode, admitted belief in extraterrestrial life—just not the details, given her oversight of 18 spy agencies.
And whistleblowers keep piling on: Ex-UAP Task Force head Jay Stratton claims he’s seen “non-human craft and non-human beings” with his own eyes.
Helicopter pilot Jacob Barber, who says he retrieved anomalous wreckage for Uncle Sam, met Rubio’s staff last fall.
Congressman Claims Existence of Five Underwater UFO Bases
Tennessee Republican Congressman Tim Burchett has claimed that extraterrestrial beings might be hunkered down in as many as five or six underwater bases lurking off the United States’ coastline.
The outspoken lawmaker, a key voice in congressional probes into unidentified aerial phenomena, dropped the eyebrow-raising assertion during a casual sidewalk chat that’s since gone viral, insisting that advanced alien “entities” could have been residing in Earth’s deep seas for millennia.
The claims by the congressman, match signals from a new analysis by Enigma Labs.
Reports of unidentified submersible objects – or USOs – darting through coastal waters are piling up at an alarming rate, prompting questions about everything from national defense to the very physics we thought we understood.
A new analysis from Enigma Labs, a crowdsourced UFO tracking platform, has cataloged over 9,000 such incidents near U.S. shorelines since late 2022, with hotspots stretching from California’s rugged Pacific cliffs to Florida’s sun-soaked Atlantic beaches.
One thing is clear today: The skies aren’t the limit anymore. Vance and Rubio’s chat feels like a tipping point—two Trump heavyweights treating UAPs not as fringe, but as unfinished business.
After diving into the stories from whistleblowers over the years, the push for answers is louder than ever. In a country built on secrets, that’s news worth watching.
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