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A U.S. congressman said he believes there’s a government UFO “cover-up” and is fed up with what he characterized as diversion tactics and stonewalling while millions of dollars seemingly vanish into a black hole.
Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., who’s been a leading voice trying to get to the bottom of the UFO debate, expressed his frustration with the government on this topic in an interview with Fox News Digital.
“I think there is a cover-up,” he said. “I mean, it’s a cover-up when you release a file, and it’s just half blacked out. And there’s a cover-up when one group says one federal authority says something exists, and then another federal authority says it doesn’t exist. That’s a cover-up.
“So, yeah, it exists. The cover-up is real, for whatever reason. And you’re spending tens of millions of dollars on it on something that you say doesn’t exist, yet you continue spending the money on it. It makes you wonder.”
“This program never recovered or reverse-engineered any UAP or extraterrestrial spacecraft. This IC (intelligence community) program was disestablished due to its lack of merit,” according to the report.
But it doesn’t say the cost of the project or how much was spent.
Rep. Tim Burchett in Washington, D.C. (Fox News Digital)
“If they (federal government) don’t have anything to hide, they sure are doing a great job of hiding it,” Burchett said with a smirk. “And also, if (UFOs) don’t exist, why do they keep spending tens of millions of dollars researching? And why do they not declassify the documents?
“And also, if (UFOs) don’t exist, why do they keep spending tens of millions of dollars researching? And why do they not declassify the documents?”
“And when they do declassify them, they’re so redacted it just looks like blotches of blacked out ink.”
A representative of AARO, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, which is the Pentagon’s office that studies UFOs, didn’t immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Fox News Digital’s Brooke Curto contributed to this report.
