Rep. Burlison : "we do have something pretty crazy and advanced that we are keeping under extreme lock and key"
In the last few years, Representative Burlison commented on UAP technologies and called for the establishment for a formal committee that would give him need to know access to classified information.
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Despite not being a member of the U.S. defence committees, Rep. Burlison has been one of the most prominent political figures trying to shed light on UAP technologies:
We owe it to the american people to understand where the money is being , I don’t think…. Tim and I have different views on what we are seeing, but people are seeing something, what is it, and how much money are we spending on this technology, and what concerns me, what it appears to be is that somebody has discovered something—some advanced form of propulsion or technology—that might actually change all of our lives, make it for the better, but clearly it’s in an experimental phase or we’re experimenting with it, and I want to know, to what extent, how much are we spending on this.
I think that that claimed that Grusch made is a valid claim, that there is money that the private sector has in their budgets that we don’t have any access to, because we are not […] to at this time.
A lot of the information we are looking into, they say it’s on a need to know basis, and if we are in a formal committee, then that gives us the need to know.
Rep Burlison, 26-10-2023
Unlike many other figures, he is outspoken in his scepticism about the idea that UFOs have an exogenous origin, meaning they are of non-human origin. He investigated the claims of whistleblowers through official channels, but he did not hesitate to question the government representative who came to brief him. He was assisted in this task by David Grusch, a former NGA and NRO employee who conducted a four-year investigation into an illegal UFO crash retrieval program.
I had a hearing with AARO yesterday.
and David Grusch was with me
and David gave them more information, I think, than they gave us.
Rep. Burlison, 14-5-2025
“some different people on the team have actually seen objects.”
Rep. Burlison, on the FBI investigation, 15-5-2025
This wasn't an easy task, given that he has recently opened up about the difficulties he encountered in accessing government information.
We have been blocked in Congress from receiving the briefings that we need
Rep. Burlison, 20-6-2025
In an exclusive interview with Ask a Pol, he stated his doubts regarding the objects recently shown in Mexico:
I'm not convinced that any of those artifacts are real.
Regarding the difficulties in obtaining classified information on UAPs due to alleged intervention by the GOP leadership, he stated:
I've reached out to Comer and to Johnson. Neither one of them remember this at all.
In politics, it is important to remember that 'not remembering' something can be a way of avoiding lying directly.
Nonetheless, he remained at the forefront of UAP investigations, remaining open to even the most outlandish claims and showing no concern for his reputation. Like most researchers, investors, scientists and engineers, he is driven by the desire to unlock a new era of technological development.
I think that they (the Nazca Mummies) are fake, I think that the Sphere is fake.
So I was in a briefing where Eric Davis, who is this like the top scientist for the CIA, he gave an open hearing. He told me in front of the world on YouTube that there are four, that they have identified four species of aliens, the one that's called the gray, the grays are like a robotic, a flesh like, you know, automaton kind of creature, it's acting under the direction of another species.
I don't know which species it is being controlled by. And then then you've got this this creature that that resembles like a manta, like a praying mantis. And so a lot of people call it an insectilid.
And and so you've got that creature. And then there's a reptilian. And then there's one that they call the is it the Nordic, so what they claim is that they look somewhat human.
And so that and so what Grush has told me, this is what blew my mind and what he said that happened with Trump, you know, and I'll just tell you this. Just again, I don't know, that I want to preface this by saying:
"this is not what I believe. This is what I've been told.”
OK, he said that that, the Nordic aliens are are like a few hundred years more advanced than we are, but they're not super advanced. They're not like. He said the grays, whatever is sending the grays is extremely advanced, like thousands and thousands of years more advanced than us, because it's doing all the anti-gravity stuff, all this crazy stuff that's very highly advanced. And a lot of, it is what he says with the grays, is psionic.
So they basically don't have physical interfaces, they're using their mind, and that there's an interface that picks up thought. And then that's how they operate these vehicles is out of psionic. But the Nordic people somewhat resemble humans and they have been experimenting with crossbreeding with humans. And he says some of them that there are aliens that are crossbreeds, living in the world.
And I asked him, I go, okay, “do they know that they're a crossbreed? Or do they, like, how would you know that they are a crossbreed?” And he didn't have an answer for that. Like he didn't know if they knew, but he said that the briefings he's had described, you know, talked about them. And he said when Trump was briefed on this topic, because Trump finally had a briefing and he was in the middle of impeachment, like he was in the middle of being impeached. So he's going through that. And then he had like this existential briefing that just kind of rocked his worldview. He joked in the briefing, whenever they said that there are these half-breeds, he said, he joked that Adam Schiff must be one of them. And so, if the Schiff is an alien.... So again, I'm just telling you exactly what was said to me.
This guy he reached to me, he’s got these really advanced drones, and he showed me a photo that was taken by one of the drones, and it’s of a pretty weird looking plane, but it’s clearly man built.
What is clear to me is that we do have something pretty crazy and advanced that we are keeping under extreme lock and key.
Wouldn't it be nice if the technology that is supposedly able to defy gravity that that potentially exists, the technology that's able to like warp space or whatever, wouldn't it be nice to have that technology instead of sitting on a on a sweaty airplane, like hot airplane that's not moving on a tarmac because of conventional weather. That's what angers me is that you've got some people that are holding on to these secrets that really could potentially be benefiting everybody.
Rep. Burlison, 28-6-2025
These are either secret human technologies or devices of non-human origin. In either case, recovering one for scientific study would represent a significant challenge and potentially trigger a new arms race. According to whistleblowers, this secret race has already been underway for decades. A nation that develops transport capabilities that leave no trace in the air and can start and stop instantly would render any conventional defence system useless. Similarly, if tasked with intercepting nuclear delivery systems, such an advanced platform would have no trouble disabling them in flight, thus rendering obsolete the military balance of the planet based on nuclear deterrence.
I remain skeptical. I went because I feel like I have a responsibility. I'm on the committee that investigates these things. I'm on the oversight committee and the task force for disclosure. We are specifically involved, you know, in an effort to try to figure out what is going on in our skies, whether it's these things that look like drones or these spheres that are floating around, or orbs that look like plasma orbs. There's been a lot of sightings. A lot of what we've had people come and testify, pilots come and testify that they've had near-miss experiences with some of these objects, and so at the end of the day that's what we're doing. We're trying to get down to the bottom of what this is, and so that is why I went.
Just in looking at the sphere, it is an interesting object. What's intriguing to me is that at first glance, it looks handmade.
They had some speculation, I'm not sure that I agree with what their speculation was.
They might be tethered from a larger drone that's very high above these orbs that's tethering it, almost like a fishing bob.
We had reports that there were mummies that were found in Peru that were alien mummies. Whenever I spoke with David Grush, who was the whistleblower from the Pentagon that studied this stuff, I was actually probably not going to go because I thought that there's no way that that's real. And he recommended that I do because he said that based on the physiology of what he's seen in some of these mummies, not all of them, some of them are faked, but some of the mummies that exist in Peru, that based on the physiology, they are congruent with what he has seen in briefings in his former role.
It's extremely frustrating when you're put into a position where you're supposed to be investigating something and you're getting blocked at every turn.
Rep. Burlison, 28-6-2025
Claims relating to non-human beings have been associated with the subject of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) since its inception in the 19th century. The quest to retrieve evidence of their existence has been at the heart of what many consider to be the true taboo surrounding UFOs: aliens of various sizes, shapes, numbers of limbs and attitudes. Even when David Grusch testified under oath that biological material had been retrieved from crashed vehicles, his testimony was met with scepticism as all proof was classified and could not be shown to the public. However, rather than pressuring the government to disclose the biological materials, public opinion turned against Grusch, even though he had already been pressured not to reveal information.
Today, as a staffer to Rep. Burlison, there is hope that he may be able to guide him towards hard evidence of his own claims.