In an interview with former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., said he believes aliens are hiding under the sea.
Burchett was responding to Gaetz asking about unidentified anomalous phenomena being reported over water.
"I haven't been briefed on this, just from what I'm putting together, but we have some secret sonar," Burchett said. "But what's so crazy about it, like we're hiding it from the Chinese. The Chinese sold us the components for it — they know what's in our sonar probably better than we do. But when they tell me something's moving at hundreds of miles an hour underwater, and our capabilities are, I don't think we have anything that'll do 40 miles an hour, and this one was as large as a football field underwater, and this was a documented case, and I have an admiral telling me this stuff."
Burchett said he believes the aliens have been traveling light years to arrive on Earth.
"I think it's possible in the vastness of God's great universe," Burchett said. "I mean, light years, you know, the light from those stars that we see at night left there before the time of Christ. I mean, the vastness of God's great universe is unreal."
Burchett said he is not concerned about being the victim of an alien invasion.
"I'm not worried about them harming me. I mean, with that capabilities, they would have barbecued us a long time ago," he said.
Burchett has been vocal about his belief the government is covering up aliens. In 2023, he shared his belief with Newsweek that the U.S. government has recovered a UFO craft and possible "beings."
Burchett also said U.S. officials attempted to reverse engineer the UFO craft in order to better understand the advanced alien technology.
Burchett told Newsmax in 2023, that the U.S. government has recovered UFO crafts through the years but has been reluctant to share any of the details with the public.
"We've got some of our top pilots" in the U.S. Navy and Air Force "spotting these things. I've talked to them. They're not allowed to testify in congressional hearings," said Burchett.
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