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Tim Burchett: Americans should know what the government knows about UFOs
politico.com ^ | ANDREW ZHANG

Posted on 07/22/2023 1:40:45 PM PDT by RoosterRedux

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) said he is 100% sure that the federal government is covering up documents about UFOs — and he’s not alone among members of Congress in trying to push for more information about what could be out there.

“We’ve requested documents, we’ve gone to interview pilots and been stonewalled by our Pentagon. It’s ridiculous, it’s been going on since the ‘40s,” Burchett said Saturday afternoon on Fox News. “We are taking the gloves off.”

Public interest in the possibility of extraterrestrial life, officially labeled as unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) in government circles, has bubbled for decades — often fraught with conspiracies — and seen a recent resurgence. Lawmakers in both chambers of Congress have ramped up their efforts for greater disclosures to allow Americans to better understand the phenomenon.

Burchett, one of Capitol Hill’s loudest voices for increased government transparency around UFOs, sits on the House Oversight Committee, where Republicans have pushed to host a long-anticipated hearing next Wednesday on the recent rise in reports of UFOs. The Pentagon has been investigating that trend since at least April. It said then that no proof of alien life had surfaced.

The Oversight hearing next week will feature David Grusch, a former intelligence employee who claimed in June that the government had a secret UFO recovery program that found a “partially intact craft of non-human remains.” While at least one Democrat has helped Republican colleagues push the issue, members say they have faced pushback from different corners and seen witnesses drop out.

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TOPICS: UFO's
KEYWORDS: burchett; fringe; ohsomysteriouso; timburchett; uap; ufo; ufos
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1 posted on 07/22/2023 1:40:45 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Openurmind; Churchjack; eastforker; Levy78; maddog55; Jonty30; GingisK; Mark17; spirited irish; ...
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2 posted on 07/22/2023 1:41:46 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

E.T is just checking up on us, to see how we’re doing.


3 posted on 07/22/2023 1:42:40 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: RoosterRedux

Nuclear codes
Military weapon stash locations

That is the extent of information the government that the government should be allowed to keep secret.


4 posted on 07/22/2023 1:43:17 PM PDT by wiseprince (Me)
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To: Openurmind; Churchjack; eastforker; Levy78; maddog55; Jonty30; GingisK; Mark17; spirited irish; ...
What is curious is why some Freepers are against free speech when it includes UFO's.

We know why the Pentagon doesn't what this discussion to occur, but why are some Freepers so dead set against it?

Watch them...they'll pop up shortly.

The Squirrelly-Man anti-free speech brigade.;-)

5 posted on 07/22/2023 1:46:12 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Even after all we’ve been through in the last 30 years, nay, 60 years. Some folks want to keep licking daddy fed’s rainbow colored boots.


6 posted on 07/22/2023 1:48:39 PM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: Levy78
Ain't that the truth.

I can understand why Wokesters and Marxists don't want free speech. But I can't for the life of me understand why anyone on the Right is against it.

7 posted on 07/22/2023 1:50:49 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: wiseprince

“Nuclear codes
Military weapon stash locations

That is the extent of information the government that the government should be allowed to keep secret.”

Why does it have to be all or none? No “compromise” and redact that particular information?


8 posted on 07/22/2023 2:02:55 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: RoosterRedux

Aliens are demons.


9 posted on 07/22/2023 2:06:25 PM PDT by exPBRrat
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To: RoosterRedux

“What is curious is why some Freepers are against free speech when it includes UFO’s.”

It conflicts with their predetermined mindset.


10 posted on 07/22/2023 2:06:39 PM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: RoosterRedux

We’ve got a zombie, installed through corruption, as President.. a guy who is practically brain dead but we find that he and his family have been deeply involved in millions of dollars in bribery and corruption with foreign enemies…

…and this guy is concerned about UFOs…

Umm, yeah.. sure.. okay..


11 posted on 07/22/2023 2:09:02 PM PDT by joethedrummer (We can't vote our way out of this, folks..)
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To: RoosterRedux

Many seem to think UFOs are the devil’s work which is beyond bizzare but I guess UFOs threaten their beliefs if real. Can’t figure that one out either.


12 posted on 07/22/2023 2:09:10 PM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: RoosterRedux

It might disrupt their beliefs that they have held dear their whole lives. I use to know a guy, about my age, that believed, without fail, everything his daddy ever told him in life.And you could not change his mind even if you showed him written proof. For example, his daddy had told him you have to be a lawyer to be a politician. He would argue the fact that “My daddy said....” and refused to believe that maybe his daddy was wrong here or there. He was a spoiled only child growing up and even as an adult, depended on what his daddy said or thought to get him through life.


13 posted on 07/22/2023 2:10:33 PM PDT by eastforker (All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
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To: joethedrummer

Let ‘em speak.


14 posted on 07/22/2023 2:12:33 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

not against it....”look squirrel!!!”

the DERPS would rather us all chasing blurry sky photos than their pedophile as$%es all over the countryside...thats all


15 posted on 07/22/2023 2:12:38 PM PDT by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: RoosterRedux

Everything on the left is the exact opposite of what they think it is ANTIFA is completely fascist. People who are WOKE are anything but because they don’t understand real science. EVs, wind farms and solar energy are far worse on the environment then fossil fuel is. They think men can be women and women can be men.

The left is total lunacy.


16 posted on 07/22/2023 2:14:25 PM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: RoosterRedux
But I can't for the life of me understand why anyone on the Right is against it

I think they are actually afraid of the notion that there are other intelligent civilizations "out there", be they in this dimension or another. Many resort to the demon explanation because they misinterpret the Bible by reading between the lines or applying weird stuff in the Bible to weird stuff in real life without a specific Biblical hook. Others seem to think they can't be there because Jesus was here, totally missing the point that God can handle the whole ball of wax without help from the peanut gallery.

Still other won't believe it because we obviously have learned all of the physics that can be learned in just 150 years; and, those things that are regularly seen can't really be there because we can't do what they do.

I attribute it to brain freeze.

17 posted on 07/22/2023 2:17:18 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: joethedrummer

Or, they are throwing the Biden’s under the bus to keep the UFO’s out of the news:)


18 posted on 07/22/2023 2:17:57 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: joethedrummer
…and this guy is concerned about UFOs…

Show me any evidence that Biden is concerned about this.

19 posted on 07/22/2023 2:18:10 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: mo
So you think you know best what other people ought to do with their time? You wanna be a dictator?

We can chase pedophiles and talk about UFO's at the same time, can't we?

BTW, what if UFO's are Chinese technology...or Russian? Is it OK to get to the bottom of this mystery or must we limit our discussions to only those subjects YOU approve of?

20 posted on 07/22/2023 2:19:08 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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