Lauren Boebert's wild UFO-Bible theory sparks internet frenzy: 'They QAnonified Congress'
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) thinks she's cracked the case on extraterrestrial life — and the answer, she says, is in scripture.
As President Donald Trump released his long-teased "UFO Files" on Friday, the firebrand Republican offered her own theory on what the government may actually be tracking: fallen angels.
"God is the creator of the universe. 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,” said Boebert in a clip flagged by Right Wing Watch.
Boebert pictured something dark.
“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."
She went further, suggesting the unexplained sightings could be supernatural gateways.
“There are things that we have seen that could resemble portals, and … we serve an infinite God, a God of the universe. And to say, ‘this is the only realm’ is ignorant," Boebert added.
"I wouldn't put it as Marvin the Martian kind of thing, but I do believe that this is more spiritual, and if you really want to go there, demonic."
A 2024 Pentagon report found no evidence that the U.S. government has recovered alien technology or confirmed alien life.
The remarks drew swift mockery and alarm online.
"Modern conservatism is mostly a combination of half forgotten Bible study, mostly misunderstood popular culture, Camp of the Saints, and a suite of mental illness," wrote Toronto Star columnist Bruce Arthur.
Boebert's comments were too much even for white nationalist Richard Spencer, who chimed in, "People like this govern us."
Boston Globe columnist Richard Hanania added: "They’re too stupid to even realize their UFO nonsense contradicts their religious nonsense. Nothing has to make sense.
Disinformation researcher Jim Stewartson saw something more sinister at work.
"Boebert is at the forefront of the psyops to come. Mark my words. The UFO story is designed to create additional evidence that evangelical eschatology is real—the End Times are here. It is radicalization 101: the enemy are actual aliens. It’s not demonic, but it is diabolical," he said.
Podcaster Robbie Martin offered a blunt verdict on Congress itself: "They essentially QAnonified congress to the point where nobody in their right mind will ever take a congressional hearing or investigation seriously again, good job it [expletive] worked."
And New York Times tech reporter Mike Isaac mocked Boebert's comments, likening them to "me and deckard cain choppin it up over the horadric cube" — a reference to the video game franchise Diablo.