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Marco Rubio dishes on ‘serious’ UFO sightings, his war with Pete Hegseth’s cat — and why he won’t do the MAHA diet
Rubio, who also doubles as national security adviser, told Katie Miller for her podcast that he takes UFO sightings seriously and that the government needs to find out “what’s flying over our airsp…
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Got it Edition CA NY Open Politics navigation US News US News Metro Long Island Politics World News US News Metro Long Island Politics World News Search Search Politics Marco Rubio dishes on ‘serious’ UFO sightings, his war with Pete Hegseth’s cat — and why he won’t do the MAHA diet By Emily Goodin Published Aug. 12, 2026, 1:46 p.m. ET See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio believes the truth is out there about unidentified flying objects and the Trump administration will find it. Rubio, who also doubles as national security adviser, told Katie Miller for her podcast that he takes UFO sightings seriously and that the government needs to find out “what’s flying over our airspace.” “I don’t know what it is, but there are things flying over our military installations and they’re not ours, and we should look into this, be serious about it,” he said. 4 Marco and Jeanette Rubio appear on the Katie Miller Podcast Katie Miller Pod/Youtube He was clear he doesn’t believe there was some kind of conspiracy at work but said “we should know what’s flying over our airspace.” There have long been reports about Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena over US military bases, including a recent one about a 100-foot black triangular UFO over a Colorado military base . The Trump administration, led by Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, have been working to solve the UFO mystery. Rubio said if they could find an answer, President Trump “would be all over that.” Explore More Trump State Department announces 175K visas have been yanked in second term — with most for ‘criminal activity’ Trump says it’s ‘way too early’ to endorse JD Vance after reports he privately backs VP for 2028 Under-fire FIFA boss Gianni Infantino begs Trump White House to save his job: sources “He’d be showing the pictures and the videos. But Stephen is on that case now, and I think he’s doing a great job with that,” he added. Katie Miller revealed her husband gives her no details because the information is “classified.” Rubio and wife Jeanette joined Miller for an hour-long interview, talking about their sleep habits, their work in the Trump administration and their family life. In the interview, Rubio revealed some issues with his famous next-door neighbors on the military base in the DC area. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and his wife Jennifer have two cats – compared to the Rubios two goldendoodles – and the pets can present some challenges. 4 An unexplained object, labeled Gimbal, is seen at center from a 2015 video provided by the Department of Defense Department of Defense The Rubios’ dogs often wander down the street to the Hegseth home. “We have one that’s really smart,” Rubio said. “Knows how to open the door. So one day, I think Pete and his family were just sitting around watching television, and they keep their front door open because they have cats, which I never took Pete for a cat guy.” “My dog just walked into their living room and looked around, realized I’m in the wrong house, and turned around and walked out,” he added. And he has his issues with one Hegseth cat, who likes to hang out on Rubio’s porch. “I’ll get home at night and the cat is just sitting on my porch and just looks at me,” Rubio said, adding the cat has an “attitude.” “The cat is a very arrogant cat,” he added. 4 Jennifer Hegseth, wife of Pete Hegseth, shared a photo of her cats on Instagram – it’s unclear if one of these cats is the one tormenting Marco Rubio Instagram/jennycdot And the feline has made itself at home. “The cat just looks at you. It doesn’t even – usually a cat, you approach it and it takes off. This one does not take off running,” he noted. The secretary of state also revealed he won’t try the popular MAHA diet that Vice President JD Vance and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. utilize. Part of Make America Healthy Again, it involves eating meat and fermented foods like sauerkraut . See Also US officials closer to cracking UFO mystery after locating site of recurring glowing orbs “This is a crazy diet,” Rubio said, extolling his love of sugar. “This is not a sustainable thing.” Noting his hectic travel schedule as secretary of state, he added: “I’m not going to travel the world with a cooler full of sauerkraut. It’s ridiculous. I can’t do it.” But Jeanette Rubio revealed the real reason: her husband’s love of Pop-Tarts. “He eats all the things you should not be eating, every single thing,” she said. Rubio extolled the virtues of the breakfast pastry: “The Pop-Tart is one of the great American innovations in the history of the world, if you think about it. It comes in this beautiful foil package.” “You need carbohydrates to function,” he added. But he also loves fast food, his wife revealed. Rubio copped to his love of convenient food options but explained the one time he tried the keto diet – which limits carbohydrates and sugar – he went crazy. “You just eat all this protein, and so you go through this massive withdrawal from sugar and carbohydrates for the first 72 hours. It was a near-psychotic event for me,” he said. He didn’t talk about the NATO trip or the secret plane switch that resulted from a security concern about the president, but he did reveal on the flight back from an overseas trip to China in June that one staffer slept so long and deeply on a couch in the Air Force One conference room that they thought the person died. “For a significant period of this flight, it was debatable whether this person had passed away or not, depending on how they’re sleeping,” Rubio said. The person wasn’t responding to all the noise on the plane – the background noise of the engines or people chattering. “I couldn’t see chest movement,” he said. “I couldn’t establish a consistent breathing pattern in the individual, but I also didn’t want to wake them up on the one hand or discover a dead body on the other.” The staff worried what they would do if a dead body was discovered on the presidential plane and an ensuing investigation. “We spent a considerable – like 90 minutes sort of debating, should we make a move? Should I call the doc? Should we deal with this? Because it’s embarrassing if you wake him up – oh, I was just sleeping. But if they were dead, like, what do you do? You have a dead body on the plane,” Rubio said. “I don’t know what the protocol is for it.” Fortunately, the unnamed person was fine and woke up. 4 President Donald Trump, seated center, flanked by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at a Cabinet meeting AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin On a serious note, Rubio described a day in his work life: starting at the State Department and moving over to the White House around noon. And he talks to President Trump multiple times a day. “He’ll start working the phones at or around 6:00 a.m.,” he said of the president, whom he described as a great storyteller. “He’s been a public figure for almost half a century,” Rubio said. “He knew everybody at some point or another. He had interacted with everybody. He’s just got great stories. If you ask him about somebody, he’ll go back and tell you about them. And it’s a pretty amazing life he’s lived.” Filed under air force one donald trump MAHA marco rubio Pete Hegseth ufos 8/12/26 Read Next NYC parks worker helped 10-year-old girl light M80 that bl... 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