Tennessee Congressman Alleges Government Coverup of Craft ‘Not of This World’

Maj. Jesse Marcel from the Roswell Army Air Field with debris found 75 miles northwest of Roswell, N.M., in June 1947. The debris has been identified as that of a radar target. The Air Force released a report on June 24, 2022, debunking reports of a UFO crash near Roswell, N.M., in 1947. (United States Air Force/AFP/Getty Images)

A Tennessee congressman known for advocating for UAP (unidentified aerial phenomena) disclosure has alleged that the government is still hiding what it knows about unknown craft following an intelligence report.

“We’ve been covering this thing up since the 40s—since Roswell or before then,” Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) told NewsNation on Saturday. “I don’t trust the government. There’s an arrogance about it. And I think the American public can handle it, and they need to release everything, and that includes if they in fact do have a craft, which I believe at some point, we have obtained some materials that are not of this world that are being studied by different members of industry, I’ve been told.”

According to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) in a report (pdf) published on Jan. 12, there has been an increase in sightings.

The U.S. government collected a total of 510 UAP reports as of Aug. 30, 2022, an increase of 366 reports in the 17 months since DNI’s preliminary assessment when, in June 2021, it reported 144 UAP sightings between 2004 and 2021.

The DNI said there have been “247 new reports and another 119 that were either since discovered or reported after the preliminary assessment’s time period.”

According to Burchett, when it comes to topics addressing classified material, there are two reports: the one made public and the one that is classified.

“So, if a congressperson is briefed on the classified briefing, then basically, they’re not allowed by law to even talk on the issue of what’s in that, even if it’s something they already know,” Burchett said.

Burchett said UAP footage such as the “Tic Tac” videos showing speeds and maneuvers not known to be achievable by mankind reveal “something else out of this world” that is “defying any of our capabilities at all.”

“If you were a human and make the turns that have been seen in some of this footage, you would literally turn into a ketchup package,” he said. “I mean, you would be gone.”

Possible UAPs in Biblical and American History

Burchett alluded to the first chapter of Ezekiel in the Old Testament of the Bible that some scholars have theorized describes the prophet’s encounter with extraterrestrial crafts and beings.

“As I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the earth beside the living creatures, one for each of the four of them,” Ezekiel writes in chapter one, verse 15.

According to Burchett, the chapter is clearly describing a UAP sighting.

Burchett mentioned the Roswell, New Mexico, incident, where, in 1947, there was an unidentified aircraft crash that was initially reported as a recovered flying saucer by the U.S. Army Air Forces before it was quickly retracted and reported as a fallen weather balloon.

In 1997, the late Col. Philip Corso alleged in his autobiography “The Day After Roswell” that when he was a member of President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s National Security Council and head of the Foreign Technological desk at the U.S. Army’s Research and Development department, he headed the Army’s reverse-engineering project that took recovered technology from the 1947 Roswell crash and seeded the information out to major corporate firms.

Using the provided information, these firms were able to manufacture “integrated circuit chips, fiber optics, laser technology, and super-tenacity fibers.”

Burchett said he’s talked with Navy pilots who admitted the UAPs are neither of terrestrial origin nor under any government control.

“So, there’s a lot of things going on within this,” he said. “There’s a lot, I think, that has transpired since the 40s.”

Mimi Nguyen Ly contributed to this report.