Former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz has made one of the more extraordinary claims to emerge from the widening national conversation around unidentified aerial phenomena, telling conservative podcast host Benny Johnson in an interview posted in late March that a uniformed United States Army officer once briefed him on a secret government programme involving the breeding of alien-human hybrids.
Gaetz described the briefing in detail, identifying the source as a senior enlisted soldier with the US Army who attended a meeting at which congressional staff were also present.
The claim, which Gaetz freely acknowledges he never independently verified, centres on what the soldier allegedly described as multiple active locations housing a programme in which captured extraterrestrial beings were breeding with abducted humans to produce a hybrid species.
“I had someone come and brief me, who was in a military uniform, worked for the United States Army, that was briefing me on the locations of hybrid breeding programs where captured aliens were breeding with humans to create some hybrid race that could engage in intergalactic communication,” Gaetz said. “An actual uniformed member of the United States Army briefed me on that.”
According to Gaetz, the humans involved in the alleged programme had been “abducted from war zones” and from what he described as “the caravans of migrants.” He claimed the soldier’s purpose in approaching members of Congress was to have them physically visit the locations so that the activities taking place there could not be quietly moved to more secure or undisclosed sites.
Gaetz also stated on the podcast that his time in Congress had exposed him to classified materials he believes are impossible to explain using any known human technology, though he declined to elaborate on specifics. “I’ve seen things in classified settings that are not explainable with the technology we know is available,” he said. “It would not be anything that you know exists on Earth.”
The timing of the claims places them in a broader political context. President Trump directed the Department of Defense in February to begin releasing government files related to unidentified aerial phenomena, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth subsequently confirmed that the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office is currently managing more than 2,000 UAP reports dating back to 1945. The announcement generated a wave of public interest and gave existing UAP believers a formal hook on which to hang their commentary.
What drew particular scrutiny, however, was not the content of Gaetz’s claims but their timing. The briefing Gaetz described presumably occurred while he was serving in the House of Representatives, a period during which he had both the platform and the access to raise the matter formally.
He offered no explanation for why he never did so. Critics and observers noted the conspicuous silence — if a sitting congressman had genuinely been briefed by a uniformed military officer on an active government programme involving extraterrestrial capture and human abduction, the failure to act or disclose during his tenure raised obvious questions.
Gaetz resigned his congressional seat in November 2024 following President Trump’s nomination of him as Attorney General. He subsequently withdrew from consideration when multiple Republican senators objected, citing a federal investigation and a congressional ethics probe into allegations of sexual conduct involving a minor — allegations Gaetz has consistently denied and which the Justice Department ultimately declined to prosecute.
He currently hosts a show on the conservative One America News Network. The extraterrestrial briefing claim was not raised at any point during his congressional tenure, his resignation announcement or his short-lived nomination period.
