Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert has claimed that newly declassified government UFO files may point to something far older than outer space,biblical demons known as the Nephilim. The Republican lawmaker made the remarks on 8 May 2026, hours after the Trump administration released itsfirst tranche of declassified Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) files.
Speaking in a video published byRight Wing Watch, Boebert argued that what the files document are not extraterrestrial beings, but fallen angels described in the Old Testament. Her comments arrived as debate over the newly released materials had barely begun.
Filmed inside a car and speaking directly to camera, Boebert framed her response to the file release through a theological lens. 'God is the creator of the universe,' she said in the clip captured by Right Wing Watch. 'He's never not going to create. So it's always been something in my mind to say, "Well, how can we be the only ones?" Like, God's not going to stop creating just with us.'
Rep. Lauren Boebert weighs in on the government's release of UFO files, saying aliens are actually "fallen angels and Nephilim" from the Old Testament: "I do believe that this is more spiritual and, if you really want to go there, demonic."pic.twitter.com/Qol8m8wIYD
She then moved directly to the Old Testament. 'But the more I look into this, the more I see the Old Testament and what was told to us there, of fallen angels, and Nephilim. I mean, this is in the Bible,' Boebert said. 'There's nothing that says that fallen angels, that Nephilim, just disappeared. And so I believed that this could be an aspect of it.'
The Nephilim appear in Genesis 6 of the Old Testament, described as powerful figures born of unions between divine beings and human women. Their corruption is traditionally interpreted as one of the catalysts for the Great Flood. Boebert did not cite any specific document from the released files to support her interpretation.
Boebert went further than the Nephilim question. She suggested that some UAP sightings may be evidence of supernatural gateways, stating, 'There are things that we have seen that could resemble portals. We serve an infinite God, a God of the universe. And to say, "this is the only realm" is ignorant.' She did not elaborate on which specific sightings she was referencing.
She was careful to distance her theory from conventional alien imagery. 'I wouldn't put it as Marvin the Martian kind of thing,' she said, 'but I do believe that this is more spiritual, and if you really want to go there, demonic.'
The remarks drew swift reaction online. Podcaster Robbie Martin wrote that Congress had been'QAnonified to the pointwhere nobody in their right mind will ever take a congressional hearing or investigation seriously again.'
Scientifically, the files offer no support for Boebert's theory. A2024 report from the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)found no evidence that the US government had recovered alien technology or confirmed the existence of alien life.
Source: International Business Times UK
