A lawmaker has made bold claims that NASA is ‘lying’ about UFOs, alleging the agency holds classified files on the matter.
Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett, a member of the House Oversight Committee that has reviewed UFO reports, made the remarks during an appearance on One America News on Tuesday, where he claimed to have attended meetings with the space agency about extraterrestrial craft.
‘The lying that goes on in these departments,’ he said. ‘NASA saying, ‘We don’t have any of this’ or ‘We haven’t studied any of this.’
‘I have been in meetings with them, or they’ve told me they studied it and that they have stuff that is classified that they can’t share with the public.’
Burchett was also asked why more whistleblowers have not come forward, responding: ‘I think they’re afraid of being disappeared… I think being murdered is what they’re afraid of. I think some of them truly are because of things they’ve seen.’
When Daily Mail contacted NASA for comment, the agency responded with a link to an X post from its press secretary, Bethany Stevens, which said: ‘We continue to make all NASA data publicly available and welcome public participation using our data.
‘As the NASA Administrator has said, there are certainly things he’s come across in the job that he can’t explain… but they relate more to unnecessarily costly programs than they do to extraterrestrial life.’
However, Burchett added that he was informed during a meeting that President Donald Trump receives information strictly on a need-to-know basis.
A lawmaker has slammed NASA in a new interview, claiming the agency is covering up UFOs
Burchett has long been a supporter of UFO disclosure, while also making claims that ‘non-human intelligences’ may be operating from multiple, potentially five or six, underwater bases located off the US coastline.
He also believes that the Pentagon is engaging in a cover-up, claiming they have ‘non-human’ technology, and has criticized the Department of Defense for not passing audits while spending money on these matters.
The lawmaker made the comments while speaking on the Matt Gaetz Show, where he said: ‘I think it is a big cover-up. I think there are too many directions it is going.’
He claimed to have spoken with Trump about the matter this week to ‘be forthcoming and bring this stuff out.’
‘The problem is you have this arrogance… These people are so above the law on everything, they think that we’re not fit to handle it,’ Burchett added.
When asked how Trump reacted to his urging this week, the lawmaker avoided saying the president did not grasp it, but was ‘on a lot of other things.’
Trump had ordered the release of all government files relating to UFOs and extraterrestrial life on February 19.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth issued an update about five days later, saying: ‘We’ve got our people working on it right now. I don’t want to oversell how much time it will take, right?
Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett, a member of the House Oversight Committee that has reviewed UFO reports, made the remarks during an appearance on One America News on Tuesday, where he claimed to have attended meetings with the space agency about extraterrestrial craft
‘We’re digging in. We’re going to be in full compliance with that executive order, eager to provide that for the president.’
Hegseth didn’t have an estimate of how long it would take for the Pentagon and US intelligence agencies to release every piece of information on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), which have been widely reported throughout the US since the 1940s.
Asked if he believes aliens exist, Hegseth replied: ‘We’ll see. I get to do the review and find out along with all of you.’
Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, who was put in charge of the House Oversight Committee’s task force on declassifying secret records on UAPs, revealed that all of the incoming documents will be housed on the US National Archives’ website.
Burchett’s interview came just days before the White House registered the domain ‘aliens.gov.’
The domain, linked to the Executive Office of the President, was flagged on Wednesday by an automated tracker of federal websites.
However, it is also listed in the government’s official .gov registry maintained by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
Registry records show it was recently added under the White House Office alongside other official government sites, confirming it as a legitimate federal web address, though its purpose has not been publicly disclosed.
The website is not currently live, but the domain has been reserved.
