Disgraced ex-GOP rep claims US has a secret 'alien hybrid breeding program'

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) made an eyebrow-raising claim on air with a far-right talk show host: the U.S. government is not only covering up the existence of extraterrestrials, but breeding them.

Gaetz told Benny Johnson that he received this information from an official briefing.

“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," said Gaetz, in a clip flagged by a social media channel following alien conspiracy theories. "An actual uniformed member of the United States Army briefed me on that.”

He went on to say that the humans who were "abducted from war zones" and even from "migrant caravans" were forced by the government to interbreed with space aliens and that crash sites of unidentified aerial phenomena often contain evidence of “non-human biologics.”

Gaetz did not provide evidence to substantiate that this conversation happened, and did not clarify why he didn't make this public while he was a member of Congress.

Gaetz was a firm ally of President Donald Trump in Congress and was the president's first choice to serve as attorney general during the transition. His nomination was derailed as congressional ethics committees uncovered fresh information about claims that Gaetz engaged in sexual misconduct with a minor, violated campaign finance law, and committed a number of other transgressions.

Gaetz has denied these allegations and was never charged with a crime, but was forced to step aside as a result of the investigation.