‘There IS something real here!’ Top UFO expert and Republican congressman say government is covering up what it knows about UFOs and should come clean

A Republican congressman and a UFO expert agree that the government knows more than they are letting on about mysterious aircraft.

Author and journalist Garrett Graff and Republican Tennessee Representative Tim Burchett jointly spoke out on the issue in a Get to know the press releases on NBC News.

Graff, author of UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here – and Out There, said: “The government is obscuring some level of its knowledge and understanding of what some of these things are.”

'There's something real here. There are things in our skies that we don't understand what they are, and they could represent wonderful new enemy technology, but they could also represent science that we don't understand.”

The expert said the cover-up could be twofold: both the government's own secret development of aircraft, drones and new technologies and what the government observes and detects in and around U.S. airspace.

Graff also said he believes the government probably knows more than they are saying, but not necessarily that they have confirmed what the mystery planes themselves are.

Author and journalist Garrett Graff said: 'The government is obscuring some level of its knowledge and understanding of what some of those things are'

Tennessee Republican Rep. Tim Burchett calls for transparency for government taxpayers about what they know about UFOs

“What I'm not convinced of is that the government is covering up meaningful knowledge about extraterrestrial spacecraft, extraterrestrial visitors and extraterrestrial contact,” Graff said.

He noted that NASA may not have evidence of alien life because humans may not have the technology to detect it.

Multiple sources told DailyMail.com that a secret CIA office has been coordinating the retrieval of crashed UFOs around the world for decades.

One source said the US government has recovered at least nine apparently “non-human vessels”; some were destroyed in a crash and two are completely intact.

Three sources briefed on these alleged top-secret operations told DailyMail.com that the Office of Global Access (OGA), a wing of the Central Intelligence Agency's Science and Technology Directorate, has played a central role in orchestrating them since 2003. of the collection of what could be. alien spacecraft.

The three sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid reprisals, were all briefed by individuals involved in these alleged UFO retrieval missions.

Representative Burchett is calling for government transparency about what they know about these UFOs.

“If it doesn't exist, why do they keep spending money to tell us,” the Tennessee congressman said.

“You know, since 1947 they've been telling us that these things don't exist, and yet Harry Reid has funded millions of dollars, very well funded, into the research into them. And they spent a lot of time and effort. And money to tell the American public that they don't exist, but they still study.'

Burchett said, “In this example, I proposed an amendment to the FAA reauthorization bill, and it basically just said that if a commercial airline pilot noticed an anomaly or a UFO, as we used to call them, and they would report to the FAA, which they would do, but there would also be a report to Congress.”

“Well, it was blocked. The whip told me it was blocked. And I said, why was it blocked? He said the intelligence community was blocking it. And I said, wait a minute. You mean you mean the committee? And he said, no, the community.”

US Space Force, the Pentagon department charged with protecting America from threats from space, local and galactic, has detected thousands of UFOs in Earth's orbit.

In recent years, Pentagon officials have been tasked with investigating UFO cases, including the now famous 2004 Tic Tac raids

America's newest military branch, created in 2019 under President Trump, told staff in November that the sightings were so regular that they “impair threat identification,” the branch's core mission.

In recent years, Pentagon officials have been tasked with investigating UFO cases, including the now-famous 2004 Tic Tac raids.

In 2004, Navy pilot Chad Underwood captured footage of a strange flying object in the sky flying over the Pacific Ocean, which was also seen by Navy Commander David Fravor.

Underwood coined the description “Tic Tac” for the “perfectly white” wingless elongated fabric captured in his cockpit flight video.

Fravor described the Tic Tac object as “perfectly white, smooth and windowless,” with “two small objects coming out of the bottom.”