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A Republican lawmaker said that Americans would “come unglued” if they received the same classified briefings on extraterrestrials that he does.
Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett made the unsettling remark in a Wednesday interview with Newsmax, during which he discussed alien life and the recent deaths of multiple U.S. scientists.
Host Rob Finnerty asked Burchett about former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz’s recent claim that a military official once briefed him on alleged “hybrid breeding programs” involving “captured aliens” and humans.
“I don’t have the tin foil hat on just yet, congressman, but I’m wondering, you know, kind of how you react to that, because you are connected, you’re on the UFO subcommittee,” Finnerty asked.
“Well, I’m still a member of Congress, so I can’t really comment too much on what Matt said,” the MAGA lawmaker replied.
Rep. Tim Burchett, a Republican from Tennessee, said that if Americans saw the same briefings on aliens that he has, they would become ‘unglued’ (Getty Images)
While he stopped short of sharing specifics, he spoke broadly about the startling information he’s received regarding extraterrestrial life.
“I’ve been briefed by just about every alphabet agency there is,” Burchett said. “And I will just tell you this, if they would release the things that I’ve seen, you would stay up. You’d be up at night worrying about or thinking about this stuff.”
“I’ll just tell you this,” he added. “I was briefed last week on an issue, or excuse me, two weeks ago, and it would have set the Earth on — this country would have come unglued, I think, if they would have heard all that I heard.”
He then demanded full disclosure of government records on alien life, saying he was “sick of it.” Burchett added that he has pressed President Donald Trump for greater transparency and voiced frustration over the layers of bureaucracy blocking it.
In February, Trump directed the Pentagon and federal agencies to release records concerning UFOs and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. So far, nothing has been made public, but the government registered “Aliens.gov” as a domain earlier this month.
‘If they would release the things that I’ve seen, you would stay up,’ Burchett said. ‘You’d be up at night worrying about or thinking about this stuff’ (Newsmax)
Earlier in the interview, Burchett discussed the recent disappearances or deaths of several U.S. scientists and military officials.
He said he doesn’t know exactly what happened, but added there are “no coincidences in this town.”
“These folks disappeared or died mysteriously and the only thing that ties them together is the fact that they worked on things that are dealing with outer space,” he said. “Overall, I think there is a connection there. And I don’t think we’re ever gonna know.”