© Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesRep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., attends a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C., on June 6, 2023.
A Tennessee lawmaker issued a dire warning after claiming to have seen classified
UFO footage that hasn't been released to the public.
Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn.,
speculated extraterrestrial life forms could have technology that humanity "can't handle" during an appearance on the "Event Horizon" podcast.
"If they're out there, they're out there, and if they have this kind of technology,
then they could turn us into a charcoal briquette," Burchett said.
"And if they can travel light years or at the speeds that we've seen, and physics as we know it, fly underwater, don't show a heat trail, things like that,
then we are vastly out of our league."
Burchett is a sitting member on the
House Oversight Committee, which has held hearings about potential threats of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), a government-derived term for UFOs.
"We can't handle it," Burchett said during his podcast appearance about potential alien tech. "
We couldn't fight them off if we wanted to. That's why I don't think they're a threat to us, or they would already have been."
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