A senior official at the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) has claimed to have been teleported to a Waffle House restaurant. Gregg Phillips, appointed in December to lead Fema's office of response and recovery, made the remarks on a podcast in January 2025.
Phillips said he was teleported 50 miles to a Waffle House in Rome, Georgia, while with his children. 'I ended up at a Waffle House like 50 miles away from where I was,' he said on the podcast Onward, adding that teleporting was 'no fun' but 'an incredible adventure'.
In the same podcast episode, Phillips also claimed his car was 'lifted up' while driving and transported 40 miles into a ditch near a church. The comments were reported by CNN, which noted Phillips has made similar claims on multiple podcasts.
Phillips, a far-right conspiracy theorist, has also suggested Covid-19 and its vaccine were designed to kill people, and claimed DHS officials were planning an assassination attempt on Donald Trump. Fema dismissed inquiries about Phillips' statements as 'so silly it's barely worth acknowledging'.
