‘He’s Convinced UFOs Exist’: Tucker Carlson Battles to Hook Elon Musk on Secret ‘Underground’ Alien Evidence

Tucker Carlson is pushing hard to convince Elon Musk that UFOs are real, with the former Fox News host privately ‘grateful’ the SpaceX billionaire is at least ‘cautiously interested’ in alleged extraterrestrial activity, according to a source speaking in the United States in 2024.

The unlikely alliance between a right-wing TV firebrand and the world’s most high-profile space entrepreneur has been building in public view for several years. Carlson, 57, has repeatedly used his platforms to talk about aliens, hidden technologies and what he frames as decades of official secrecy, while Musk has largely kept to the harder-edged physics of rockets and satellites, usually brushing off UFO speculation as lacking hard evidence.

Tucker Carlson’s UFO Fixation Moves From Fringe To Talking Point

The news came after Carlson used a long appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience in 2024 to lay out his most explicit theory yet. Far from the classic image of little green men, he described extraterrestrials as ‘spiritual entities’ that are ‘supernatural’ and ‘outside’ the natural world.

‘They don’t behave according to the laws of science,’ Carlson told Rogan, arguing that whatever these entities are, ‘they’ve been here a long time’. He went further, claiming there is ‘a ton of evidence that they’re under the ocean and under the ground’.

Those are bold claims even in an era when ‘unidentified anomalous phenomena’ have their own hearings in the US Congress. Carlson did not present documents or data in that podcast, he asked listeners to accept that he has seen enough to be persuaded.

Behind the scenes, he is not treating it as a throwaway segment either. A source quoted in the original report said Carlson is ‘convinced that UFOs do exist’ and that he has ‘spent an awful lot of time on research, looking into conspiracy theories and cover-ups’.

That description, ‘cover-ups’, is doing a lot of work. It hints at the community Carlson has increasingly courted, one that believes governments have long sat on proof of non-human technology, whether in deserts, deep oceans or military vaults.

IBTimes UK cannot independently verify the depth of his research or the specific evidence he has reviewed, so everything should be taken with a grain of salt.

Musk, SpaceX And A ‘Cautiously Interested’ Approach To UFO Claims

For starters, Elon Musk is not your typical UFO fan. The SpaceX and Tesla chief oversees some of the world’s most sophisticated satellite constellations and rocket launches, and he has repeatedly said his systems have not spotted alien craft.

According to the same source, however, Musk is described as ‘cautiously interested’ in the topic, enough that Carlson sees an opening. ‘Tucker’s grateful that Elon Musk is cautiously interested in the subject and hopes to carry on the discussion,’ the source said.

That detail matters. Musk is a gatekeeper of sorts for how serious people, particularly in tech and finance, approach the UFO debate. If the man who has put thousands of Starlink satellites in orbit says he sees nothing, it is a powerful dampener on speculation. If he even nudges towards curiosity, it emboldens those who argue something strange is going on.

The source suggested that, just after the 2024 US presidential election, Carlson and his allies were watching Washington closely. They floated the idea that a second Donald Trump administration ‘may be more open and start sharing some UFO intel’. There is no official confirmation of that, and neither Trump nor any US agency has publicly promised a disclosure wave, but the hope says a lot about where Carlson thinks his best bet lies.

The former Fox host has been edging into this territory for years, especially since leaving the network amid a messy corporate split. UFOs are a ‘hot topic’ that ‘merits scrutiny’, the source insisted, and Carlson appears to see them as a way to mix cultural politics, national security and the unknowable in one combustible package.

Many people, the source acknowledged, ‘don’t believe in aliens or UFOs’. But they added that Carlson ‘won’t let up’. Anyone who watched his nightly monologues at Fox will recognise that stubborn streak.

Demons, Claw Marks And Carlson’s Brush With The Supernatural

If that all sounds wild, Carlson’s UFO fixation is only part of his broader fascination with what he frames as spiritual warfare.

In a YouTube series titled Christianities in 2024, he recounted what he described as a night-time encounter with a ‘demon’ or ‘unseen entity’. The story, told in his trademark deadpan style, was graphic enough to unsettle even those used to his more apocalyptic rhetoric.

He said he initially thought he was having ‘the weirdest dream’. He woke up unable to breathe and believed he was ‘going to suffocate’. According to his account, he left the bed, walked around outside, then came back in to find that neither his wife nor his dogs, whom he described as ‘very light sleepers’, had stirred.

Then, he claimed, came the physical evidence. ‘I had these terrible pains on my rib cage and on my shoulder,’ he said. When he turned on the bathroom light, he said he found ‘four claw marks on either side underneath my arms and on my left shoulder. And they’re bleeding.’

Carlson stressed that he did not have ‘long nails’ and insisted he could not have injured himself. ‘It didn’t make any sense and it doesn’t now,’ he said. ‘But yeah, that happened. No one has to believe me, I don’t care, but that happened to me.’

There is no independent verification of that episode and no medical records have been made public. Celebeat cannot independently verify these claims, so take everything lightly.

Still, the story fits neatly into the worldview he has been sketching in recent years, one where UFOs, demons and shadowy elites all sit on the same spectrum of hidden realities. To his critics, it is a slide into conspiratorial fantasy. To his fans, it is Carlson finally saying the quiet stuff out loud.

Official agencies, for their part, remain far more restrained. When US defence officials talk about UFOs, they stress the ‘unidentified’ part and warn against jumping from odd radar blip to alien civilisation. Musk, at least publicly, has hewed closer to that line.

Whether Carlson can pull him, and by extension a chunk of his vast audience, into deeper UFO waters is an open question. For now, he seems content just to keep nudging.