(NewsNation) — Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., calls UAP whistleblower Lue Elizondo “an American hero” for publically sharing what helium says helium knows astir unidentified anomalous phenomena, aka UFOs.
Elizondo, a erstwhile U.S. Army Counterintelligence Special Agent and erstwhile worker of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, says the U.S. subject has been moving an unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) retrieval and reverse engineering programme for years — and has adjacent recovered nonhuman specimens.
“My buddy Lue Elizondo is an American hero,” Burchett told NewsNation connected Sunday. He besides shared his longtime vexation has what helium calls a decades-long cover-up by the government.
“Every clip we crook around, we person immoderate smart-aleck kid with a antheral bun … telling america they don’t exist. And I accidental ‘well, what astir this incident, oregon this report’ and they’ll accidental ‘well I don’t person thing connected that. I don’t cognize what you’re talking about.’ It goes connected and connected and on.”
Burchett says his idiosyncratic conversations with pilots and others contradict the denials that helium and different members of Congress person heard implicit the years.
“One of them (military pilot) told me, ‘Tim this happening was 14 feet from my canopy. I could not mis-identify it.’ If we person credible radical telling america that they person recovered trade oregon recovered bodies … we ought to beryllium capable to spot that information.”
Burchett says determination volition beryllium much UAP hearings by House committees, and helium expects the witnesses to beryllium much forthcoming than others person been.
“We’re gonna telephone immoderate radical successful and they’re gonna constituent immoderate fingers and sanction immoderate names. I deliberation that the American nationalist has a close to know,” helium said.
But Burchett besides warns the eventual determination connected releasing what the authorities knows astir UAP whitethorn person to travel from the White House.
“We’re gonna person to person a president with the guts to accidental ‘let’s merchandise each of them. Let’s crook ‘em loose.’”