U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett said he believes alien bases exist deep in the ocean.
During an interview on The Matt Gaetz Show on One America News, Burchett (R-TN) related that an admiral, whom he did not identify by name, had told him about an unidentified craft moving at extremely high speeds in the ocean.
“They tell me something’s moving at hundreds of miles an hour underwater… as large as a football field, underwater,” Burchett said. “This was a documented case and I have an admiral telling me this stuff.”
According to Burchett, the fastest U.S. military underwater vehicle can only travel about 40 m.p.h. However, he added that he is not worried about whoever or whatever is behind these technological mysteries.
“I’m not worried about them harming me. I mean, with that capabilities, they would have barbecued us a long time ago, Brother,” Burchett said.
In the past, Burchett has advocated for greater transparency from military officials about their knowledge of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). In April of last year, following a classified briefing on UAP, Burchett indicated that he believed the military was purposefully concealing information from the public.
“I think there’s a cover-up. There are tens of millions of dollars that we’ve spent investigating these things. We’ve had departments tell us that they have recovery units, but they won’t release full reports. Everything’s covered up,” Burchett said at the time, The Hill reported.
In March 2024, the Pentagon released a report dismissing claimed sightings of extraterrestrial technology.
“All investigative efforts, at all levels of classification, concluded that most sightings were ordinary objects and phenomena and the result of misidentification,” the report said, per CBS News.
The report added that there is “no empirical evidence” to support claims that the government or any private companies are secretly “reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology.”