A Tennessee congressman issued a dire warning after being given access to classified UFO footage not available to the public.
During an appearance on the “Event Horizon” podcast, Republican State Rep. Tim Burchett claimed that he has seen UFO footage and said that humanity “can’t handle” the technology of extraterrestrial life forms.
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“If they’re out there, they’re out there, and if they have this kind of technology, then they could turn us into a charcoal briquette,” Burchett said. “And if they can travel light years or at the speeds that we’ve seen, and physics as we know it, fly underwater, don’t show a heat trail, things like that, then we are vastly out of our league.”
Burchett is a sitting member of the House Oversight Committee, which has conducted hearings on potential threats from unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), a term coined by the government to describe unidentified objects, more commonly known as UFOs.
The congressman’s comments come after whistleblower David Grusch, a decorated Air Force veteran, came forward with allegations that the government has been running a secret UFO retrieval program.
Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio also advocated for lawmakers to hear out Grusch’s claims, even though he didn’t comment on whether he thinks that they are credible.
“We’re trying to gather as much of that information as we can… And, frankly, a lot of them are very fearful of their jobs… fearful of harm coming to them,” Rubio told Fox News. “What I think we owe is just a mature, you know, understanding, listening and trying to put all these pieces together and just sort of intake the information without any prejudgment or jumping to any conclusions.”
The Department of Defense, however, denied Grushc’s shocking claims and said that there is no “verifiable information to substantiate the claims.”
Last year, Congress received the latest secret briefings on UFOs violating protected airspace, but lawmakers aren’t impressed, as some are demanding more analysts and surveillance systems dedicated to determining the aircraft’s origin instead of just reports of their existence.
Members of the Senate Intelligence and Armed Services committees recently received classified progress reports that the Pentagon and other spy agencies are now required to pursue in an effort to take UFO reports more seriously.
