A senior U.S. Army member said the federal government is actively breeding alien-human hybrids to help officials communicate with people on other worlds, according to former Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz (FL), Trump’s first pick to serve as U.S. attorney general.

While speaking recently to anti-LGBTQ+ right-wing podcaster and conspiracy theorist Benny Johnson, Gaetz claimed that a “senior enlisted man with the U.S. Army” who was a “whistleblower” told him about the secret program.

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Gaetz said the military official told him that government agents were forcing extraterrestrials in custody to mate with humans who had been abducted from war zones or “even from caravans with migrants,” The Huffington Post reported. The unnamed military whistleblower said the government currently operates six to 12 different breeding sites across the nation.

Gaetz said he never confirmed the claim’s truthfulness, and he didn’t explain why he didn’t inquire about the alleged program’s existence while serving in the federal government.

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His claim comes amid renewed interest in the government’s possible knowledge of alien life.

Former President Barack Obama sparked widespread interest last February when he told journalist Brian Tyler Cohen, “[Aliens] are real but I haven’t seen them,” adding, “They’re not being kept in Area 51.” Obama later clarified that his comments were made in a “lighthearted spirit” during a fast-paced interview and that his “they’re real” comment referred to the statistical likelihood of life existing on other planets, not that he himself had seen evidence of alien life on Earth.

Last month, the White House registered two new government domains — alien.gov and aliens.gov — one month after President Trump announced his plans to release long-anticipated U.S. government records about unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) and extraterrestrial beings, Defense Scoop reported.

In previous congressional hearings between 2023 and 2025, former intelligence officer David Grusch alleged that the U.S. government had recovered non-human “biologics” and operated a secret, decades-long reverse-engineering program. Other witnesses testified that UAPs in the air and ocean are capable of flying in formation, performing evasive maneuvers, and outperforming known aircraft.

Other hearing witnesses accused the Pentagon and the intelligence community of withholding crucial information on extraterrestrial life.

Back on Earth, Gaetz’s involvement with the Trump administration ended in scandal.

In December 2024, a House Ethics Committee concluded that Gaetz had sex with a 17-year-old human girl, regularly paid women for sex, used or possessed illegal drugs, and accepted gifts that exceeded the allowed House limits. The report said the girl hid her age and that Gaetz didn’t know she was a minor. Gaetz denied all wrongdoing.

Nevertheless, Gaetz resigned from Congress days before the report came out, and withdrew as Trump’s attorney general nominee after its release, but he denied the report’s findings and accused the committee of unfairness.

The Justice Department refused to pursue criminal charges against Gaetz. He hasn’t been legally charged with any crime related to the report or the woman’s testimony. The woman’s name hasn’t been publicly reported.

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