GOP Lawmaker Presses Trump To Release ‘Pretty Wild’ Alien Files | EUROtoday

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) is looking on President Donald Trump to launch all authorities recordsdata associated to UFOs and aliens simply days after saying the president is the “disruptor” who ought to uncover the knowledge to Americans.

“Just tell the American public. It’s like I told President Trump — peel back the layers of that onion, let America decide if we can handle it. I think we can handle it,” Burchett mentioned Sunday on Fox News’ “The Big Weekend Show.”

The Republican lawmaker referred to as the issues he’s been briefed on associated to extraterrestrials “pretty wild.”

“I have some ideas about what it is, I’ve been briefed on some things and, yeah, they’re pretty wild. And I think America needs to know that stuff, and we need to know what the heck we’re spending the money on to study,” he continued.

Noting that it’s not about “little green men” or “dadgum flying saucers,” Burchett continued, “It’s about what are we spending tens of millions of your dollars on when some alphabet agency tells me they don’t exist and then again, another department within that department tells me they do exist.”

Burchett’s remarks got here after the Tennessee consultant appeared on Stephen A. Smith’s Sirius XM radio present “Straight Shooter” and mentioned that “Trump’s the guy” who must launch the recordsdata.

“If anybody will do it, if anybody’s a disruptor, it’s Donald J. Trump, and he will disrupt with this,” he mentioned on the April 9 episode. “And I had a conversation with folks at the White House today, just about that. Hopefully some things will be coming out soon.”

Earlier this month, Burchett additionally advised Newsmax’s Rob Finnerty that the general public could be “up at night worrying” in the event that they knew what he is aware of about extraterrestrials.

Claiming that “it keeps getting covered up,” he careworn that “this country would’ve come unglued if they would’ve heard all that I heard.”

“They would demand answers,” Burchett added.

Discourse over UFOs ramped up on social media earlier this 12 months after former President Barack Obama mentioned that aliens are “real’’ during a February podcast interview. After his comments went viral, Obama swiftly clarified in an Instagram post that he had not seen evidence of their existence.

Trump rebuked Obama over his remarks, telling Fox News, “He gave classified information. He’s not supposed to be doing that. I don’t know if they’re real or not … I can tell you he gave classified information … He made a big mistake.”

Despite scolding Obama, Trump mentioned days later in a Truth Social submit that he would have the Pentagon and different companies launch any authorities recordsdata associated to “alien and extraterrestrial life.”

“I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters,” he mentioned.