Congressman Tim Burchett says seeing “pictures and video of things that defy any reason” convinced him that aliens exist — and demanded the government come clean to the American people about its knowledge of extraterrestrials.
Burchett (R-Tenn.) appeared on NewsNation’s “Elizabeth Vargas Reports” on Tuesday, days after President Trump said the Pentagon would release documents on unidentified aerial phenomena “very, very soon.”
“These people are seeing something out there,” he said of the recent uptick in UFO sightings across the US.
“I’ve seen pictures and video of things that defy any reason that we have, and everybody says, ‘Well, it’s our stuff, it’s the Russians, it’s the Chinese.’”
However, Burchett — a member of the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets — dismissed the idea that what’s being spotted is man-made technology.
“If it’s the Chinese, ma’am, they would own us. If it was the Russians, they wouldn’t be bogged down in Ukraine,” Burchett said.
He further pointed out that if it were human tech, specifically from the US, the government would never risk using its own people to operate the crafts.
“If it was ours, we would never risk our military fighting men and women in half-a-billion-dollar aircraft out with these things that they’re spotting,” he told Vargas.
“These things can hover for hours on end, then they can just shoot straight up, they can do angles.”
Burchett also recalled a chilling conversation with a Navy admiral who described a craft detected underwater on sonar that was traveling “over 200 miles an hour” and was “almost as big as a football field.”
“We don’t have anything of that capability or that size,” Burchett said.
Burchett said he wants the government to reveal to the people what they know.
“At some point, just put it out there and let people decide,” he said, adding that he believes the American people “could handle it.”
“I just think our government and their arrogance, it’s power, it’s about control and it’s arrogance. It’s everything that runs Washington, DC.”
Burchett’s comments come after Trump spoke at a Turning Point USA rally in Phoenix, Arizona, on April 17, saying the first releases from a Pentagon study on UFOs were coming down the pipeline.
“We found many very interesting documents, I must say,” Trump said. “And the first releases will begin very, very soon. So, you can go out and see if that phenomenon is correct.”
In February, Trump vowed to release government files on extraterrestrial life and unidentified aerial phenomena — citing “tremendous interest” in the topic following remarks by former President Obama suggesting aliens were real.
Interest in UAPs has grown considerably in recent years, prompting Congress to pass the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act and the Department of Defense to establish the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office in 2023 to investigate the incidents more thoroughly.
