Republican lawmakers have accused the government of covering up UFOs, days after an anonymous report revealed hundreds of new encounters with what the military now prefers to call unidentified aerial phenomena.
“This is a huge cover-up, for whatever reason,” Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) told NewsNation over the weekend. “And I think that America is ready, we need to understand, and stop with all the shenanigans.”
Burchett, who also said there are references to UFOs in the Bible, said the new UFO footage shows the object making the kind of maneuvers that no human can withstand.
“If you’re human and make the turns you’ve seen in some of this footage, you’ll literally be a ketchup packet,” he said. “I mean, you’re leaving.”
He notes that UFO clips, such as the famous “Tic Tac” footage, do not show the aircraft’s characteristic vapor trails.
Some have speculated that their apparently impossible-to-human movements and lack of vapor trails are a sign that the objects are drones or balloons — potentially of alien origin, at least in some cases — rather than crew vehicles or extraterrestrial visitors.
“I don’t trust the government. There is arrogance about it,” he said. “I think the American people can handle it and should let it all go.”
These, he said, include UFO spacecraft or material from spacecraft.
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