Rep. Tim Burchett on UFOs: ‘Yeah, I think there’s a cover-up’

https://thehill.com/homenews/4601770-rep-tim-burchett-on-ufos-yeah-i-think-theres-a-cover-up/

Following a classified briefing on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs), more commonly known as UFOs, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) suggested Wednesday that the U.S. government may be intentionally concealing information on these objects from the American public.

“I think there’s a cover-up,” Burchett told Blake Burman on NewsNation’s “The Hill.”

“There are tens of millions of dollars that we’ve spent investigating these things. We’ve had departments tell us that they have recovery units, but they won’t release full reports. Everything’s covered up,” Burchett added. 

This is not the first time Burchett has accused the Pentagon of withholding information from Congress that would prove the existence of extraterrestrial life. 

After a series of explosive hearings last summer in which several whistleblowers alleged the government was hiding intel on an ultra-high-tech craft of foreign or even extraterrestrial origin, Burchett requested the inspector general of the intelligence community investigate these claims further.

The Tennessee Republican is among a group of bipartisan lawmakers who have continued to push for greater transparency from military officials on what the government knows about UAP, leading an effort last fall to launch the House UAP Caucus.

When asked why he suspected a “cover-up,” Burchett pointed to the vast financial and technological gains that could be made should evidence of extraterrestrial life become public, asserting that the American people would be able to “handle” such knowledge. 

“It might be the fact that it’s just plain arrogance — they don’t think we deserve it,” Burchett said.

“I can’t tell you how many conversations I’ve had with high-ranking officials that have told me that America really can’t handle this stuff. It’s not their position to tell me who or what I can handle; we’re Americans

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Tim Burchett: Americans should know what the government knows about UFOs

A bipartisan push to release government records about extraterrestrial affairs has slowly built on Capitol Hill.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/22/tim-burchett-ufos-00107708

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) said he is 100% sure that the federal government is covering up documents about UFOs — and he’s not alone among members of Congress in trying to push for more information about what could be out there.

“We’ve requested documents, we’ve gone to interview pilots and been stonewalled by our Pentagon. It’s ridiculous, it’s been going on since the ‘40s,” Burchett said Saturday afternoon on Fox News. “We are taking the gloves off.”

Public interest in the possibility of extraterrestrial life, officially labeled as unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) in government circles, has bubbled for decades — often fraught with conspiracies — and seen a recent resurgence. Lawmakers in both chambers of Congress have ramped up their efforts for greater disclosures to allow Americans to better understand the phenomenon.

“The American public has a right to learn about technologies of unknown origins, non-human intelligence, and unexplainable phenomena,” Schumer said of the legislation in a release. “We are not only working to declassify what the government has previously learned about these phenomena but to create a pipeline for future research to be made public.”

Schumer’s legislation has echoes of a 1992 law that declassified documents around former President John F. Kennedy’s assassination — another event that had garnered public interest and associated conspiracy theories — after 25 years.

“They’re not telling the truth,” Burchett said Saturday. ”The hearings that they’ve had have been bogus.”