Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett claims that NASA is “lying” about what it knows about UFOs. He also claims the American space agency is hiding classified files on the subject.
Burchett, a member of the House Oversight Committee that is investigating UFO reports, claims to believe this because he has attended meetings with NASA to discuss alien aircraft.
“The lying that goes on in these departments,” he said during an appearance on One America News this week. “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.”
When asked why there aren’t more whistleblowers willing to come forward with what they know about UFOs, Tim Burchett responded that he thinks it is because “they’re afraid someone will disappear them.”
“I think being murdered is what they’re afraid of,” he said. “I think some of them truly are because of things they’ve seen.”
When contacted by DailyMail.com to comment on Burchett’s statements about NASA hiding information about UFOs, the space agency replied with a link to an X post from its press secretary, Bethany Stevens.
It reads: “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.”
Previous claims and current coincidences
Congressman Burchett’s claims come in the same week that the United States government mysteriously purchased two new domain names: alien.gov and aliens.gov. His statements also come shortly after Donald Trump announced plans to declassify federal information on unexplained aerial phenomena (UAPs, or what the government now calls UFOs) and alien life. They also coincide with the mysterious disappearance of retired U.S. Air Force Major General William Neil McCasland.
Burchett is no stranger to making outlandish UFO claims, however. In 2023, he accused the government of not being honest with the public about UFOs and aliens. He has also claimed the United States government has alien tech in its possession that it is currently reverse-engineering which could “turn us into a charcoal briquette.”
In 2025, the Congressman claimed that the United States government has knowledge about underwater alien bases. As a part of his claims, Burchett said there are “entities” located at five or six deep-water sites on Earth.