Republican Congressman Tim Burchett: The Government Covered up a UFO Crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947

The Gateway Pundit ^ | June 18, 2023 | Cassandra McDonald

[Macho MAGA Man]

Burchett has become increasingly outspoken about UFOs in recent months.

Appearing on Newsmax on Saturday, Burchett said military intelligence “is like congressional ethics [and that] it just doesn’t exist.”

“I do 100% [believe the U.S government is covering up] since 1947 Roswell, [Mexico]… the military said we’ve recovered a saucer and then the next day they dropped this poor officer out and claim he holds up a piece of a hot air balloon and says, ‘No in fact it was a hot air balloon,’ which apparently was a top secret program at the time and they’ve never would have disclosed it in any way,” Burchett continued.

During a recent appearance on NewsNation, Burchett made similar claims, implying that the government is hiding information about aliens because they believe that the American public can’t handle it.

“We’ve been covering this up since the 40s,” Burchett recently told NewsNation and added that he doesn’t “trust [the] government, [and] there’s an arrogance about it, and I think the American public can handle it.”

Burchett tweeted a clip of the interview and wrote, “witnesses will be brought in and we will hold hearings on UAPs. It’s time. The American people can handle it.”

[GingisK]

What can you offer as proof?

[devere]

The bottom line is there is no evidence of an alien artifact, either in the USA or in any other country. Zero.

[devere]

Obviously no one can prove a negative. If belief in ETs is your personal religion, enjoy it in good health.

[GingisK]

From my point of view, disbelief in the existence of ET is your personal religion. I have changed my paradigm some so that I won't be inclined to commit suicide if ET does become a verifiable fact. As it currently stands, either situation could be the truth. Finding out isn't going to push me over any edge.

My campaign in this regard is simply my way of taking care of good people. I have no skin in the game other than that.

[TheWriterTX]

The Pueblo Cafe in Albuquerque had delicious food. Kids enjoyed the Nuclear History museum and the zoo.

Those street lights are a blast!

[Lancerdancer]

Please link any literature before 1978 implying there was alien bodies or alien spacecraft involved in Roswell

[GingisK]

Authored before that time, or placed on the Internet? The Internet wasn't publicly available prior late 1980s or early 1990s. I didn't have access to it prior to 1993. I did have printed and photocopied literature in the early 1980s, some of which originated in the 1970s. That stuff was stolen from me in 1989 or so, about the time I stopped working with the Atlanta UFO Forum.

I do recall that around 1958 or '59 my older brother needed psychiatric help due to a public incident involving a UFO. I was 9 at the time, and don't remember any more about that. Perhaps it was that formation of UFOs that were filmed overflying the Capital Building in DC. (Swamp gas)

The detailed literature began to leak out with the advent of the Internet. All of it is poor "Xerox copies" of carbon copies; however, forensics generally side with authenticity. The bebunking of those documents is usually pretty weak.

[CedarDave]

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[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

This nonsense again? I lived at Roswell in 1959 and 1960, was stationed there in 1966-1967. Never heard a word about any UFO crash at Roswell till after the base closed.

Have been back to Roswell several times and UFO nonsense covers the town. I believe it was made up to bring in tourists after Walker AFB closed down taking the revenue it brought in to a halt.

There was a TV show about this back around 2008 or so in which a group got permission to dig at the crash site. They had the blessing of former Governor Bill Richardson who was on the show and said they would let the world know what REALLY happened there when they had examined the artifacts from the dig.

They have never been heard from since.

There were two characters who claimed they had shot a DRAGON in the hills west of Roswell. Even had photos of the skin. Quite a tale till they admitted they had traded some live chickens and other goods for a large python snake skin. This was reported on the front page for several days of the Roswell Daily Record back in 1959.

[IYAS9YAS]

It's just tough to believe an alien race could get all the way here from another star but they'd have trouble navigating the skies over Roswell, New Mexico.

They shoulda taken the left toin in Albuquoiky.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

When a town in the dry west needs revenue to come in they often conjure up a UFO CRASH SITE to attract tourists!

It worked so well for Roswell that Aztec tried it with a crash in Kutz Canyon near there. NE Oklahoma has it’s “Spook Light”. A new version of the tourist traps and Reptile Zoos on old Highway 66 all through there.

http://www.aztecnm.com/aztec/ufocrashsite.html

https://www.joplinmo.org/575/The-Spook-Light

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I am surprised Carlsbad has not tried to turn their “Project Gnome” underground nuke explosion into a tourist exhibition. My dad worked on that project back in 1961.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Reminds me of a true story. Our company was considering running a power line through East Texas near where the Boggy Creek Monster was supposed to be. So some company people asked about it.
The guide said: “We was out hunting coon one time and we heard this weird shriek. and a real bad smell! The dogs also got scared!”

A secretary with the group then asked: “Do, do you all still hunt Negros down here?”

The guide said..”RA-COON, Debbie! RA-COON!”

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***we put men on the moon.***

Back in the late 1960s I believe it was Science and Mechanics magazine had a series of articles “proving” the Russians never put men into space.
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/1wAAAOSwmPhjbnEj/s-l1600.jpg

One such magazine also asks the US moon landing was a “fake”. After seeing the movie CAPRICORN ONE it makes one wonder...

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a28434260/moon-landing-hoax-conspiracists/

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I remember Quix on FR! Found he lived in the same Farmington NM I lived in decades ago but I never met him. He was a firm believer in the Aztec NM UFO hoax crash.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

What? No “Swamp Gas?”

I remember an old OLD cartoon from back in those days. A man ina biplane is flying ow over African Natives. They see and are in awe! The medicine man simply says...”Swamp Gas.”

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Actually far earlier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reported_UFO_sightings

I remember reading that in the late 1800s newspaper writers, when they had no story to print often made up a fantastic tale of flying ships, flying monsters so they would not have blank pages in the newspaper.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***so that I won’t be inclined to commit suicide if ET does become a verifiable fact.***

I remember reading of people preparing to do this when Orson Wells broadcast his War of The Worlds on radio.
They never thought to change the station to see what other news services were saying.

[Macho MAGA Man]

What about the local news report of a captured flying saucer in the paper the day after it happened in 1947?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Chalk it up as an event like when the NEW YORK SUN published articles about finding men with wings on the moon. 1835.

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/moon-shot-race-a-hoax-and-the-birth-of-fake-news