Government's refusal's to declassify UFO docs is a 'cover-up' costing taxpayers millions: GOP congressman

A U.S. congressman said he believes there's a authorities UFO "cover-up" and is fed up pinch what he characterized arsenic diversion strategies and stonewalling while millions of dollars seemingly vanish into a achromatic hole. 

Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., who's been a starring sound trying to get to nan bottommost of nan UFO debate, expressed his vexation pinch nan authorities connected this taxable successful an question and reply pinch Fox News Digital.

"I deliberation location is simply a cover-up," he said. "I mean, it's a cover-up erstwhile you merchandise a file, and it's conscionable half blacked out. And there's a cover-up erstwhile 1 group says 1 national authority says thing exists, and past different national authority says it doesn't exist. That's a cover-up.

"So, yeah, it exists. The cover-up is real, for immoderate reason. And you're spending tens of millions of dollars connected it connected thing that you opportunity doesn't exist, yet you proceed spending nan money connected it. It makes you wonder."

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The "acorn." An FA-18 Pilot and a Weapon Systems Officer took these photos of unidentified aerial phenomena, UAPs, flying complete Oceania March 4. 2019.  (George Knapp/Mysterywire.com)

Last week, Burchett was 1 of astir a twelve group successful a SCIF, a delicate compartmented accusation facility, astir UFOs, which is simply a highly classified briefing, and he near emotion "discouraged, arsenic each this different worldly is."

"The cover-up is real, for immoderate reason."

Instead of releasing classified files to nan nationalist that a bipartisan conjugation of lawmakers had been calling for, national authorities officials "bring you successful a unafraid setting, moreover for nan astir mundane alleged facts. And, to me, that conscionable reeks of a cover."

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Because nan gathering was classified, Burchett couldn't talk nan details, but he said he didn't study thing caller and wondered why it couldn't beryllium discussed successful public. 

"I really deliberation nan full point is truthful compartmentalized that we'll ne'er get to nan bottommost of it until you person a commander-in-chief who says capable is enough. We conscionable sewage to put this worldly out. Let's clear nan air. And let's move on," Burchett said. 

"Like I said before, it's not about small greenish man aliases flying saucers, it's astir tens of millions of dollars that our national authorities is spending connected thing that astatine slightest immoderate of nan members of nan national authorities opportunity does not exist. Yet they will not merchandise each nan files."

The U.S. Navy filmed "pyramid-shaped" UFOs hovering complete nan USS Russell successful July 2019 disconnected nan seashore of California.  (@JeremyCorbell)

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At times, Burchett said he felt for illustration they were adjacent to getting answers, but past they're told they person to inquire personification else.

"And that personification isn't successful nan SCIF, and past you commencement each complete again. We request a coliseum to put everyone successful 1 place, truthful we get each nan questions answered."

As precocious arsenic 2021, an Intelligence Community Control Access programme "was expanded to protect UAP reverse-engineering … without capable justification," the Pentagon's February study on UFOs (or UAP, unidentified anomalous phenomena) said.

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"This programme ne'er recovered aliases reverse-engineered immoderate UAP aliases extraterrestrial spacecraft. This IC (intelligence community) programme was disestablished owed to its deficiency of merit," according to nan report. 

But it doesn't opportunity nan costs of nan task aliases really overmuch was spent. 

Rep. Tim Burchett successful Washington, D.C. (Fox News Digital)

"If they (federal government) don't person thing to hide, they judge are doing a awesome occupation of hiding it," Burchett said pinch a smirk. "And also, if (UFOs) don't exist, why do they support spending tens of millions of dollars researching? And why do they not declassify nan documents?

"And also, if (UFOs) don't exist, why do they support spending tens of millions of dollars researching? And why do they not declassify nan documents?"

"And erstwhile they do declassify them, they're truthful redacted it conscionable looks for illustration blotches of blacked retired ink."

A typical of AARO, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, which is nan Pentagon's agency that studies UFOs, didn't instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment. 

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Fox News Digital's Brooke Curto contributed to this report.