Overview

• Vice President JD Vance announced on the Ruthless Podcast that he is “obsessed” with UFOs and plans to use Congress’s August recess to investigate last year’s mystery sightings.
• He said last November’s waves of car-sized drone sightings over New Jersey’s Picatinny Arsenal will be a focal point of his inquiry.
• Vance vowed to notify the public immediately if his probe uncovers any substantive evidence of unidentified aerial phenomena.
• Earlier this year the White House cited a Federal Aviation Administration report stating it had no records of anomalous sightings during the period of heightened attention.
• In 2023 former Senator Marco Rubio claimed top U.S. officials hold first-hand knowledge of a clandestine Pentagon crash retrieval program.