“It’s a fistfight:” Tim Burchett says deep state is blocking Trump’s UFO disclosure push
“As crooked as a dog’s leg.”
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- Burchett claims a "deep state" is preventing both Congress and President Trump from accessing alleged classified UFO files.
- He argues the fight over UFO disclosure has been ongoing since 1947, the year closely associated with the Roswell incident.
- His comments reinforce the idea among disclosure advocates that unelected officials, not elected leaders, control access to UAP information.
- Reddit users were split, with some demanding evidence and others agreeing the issue goes beyond partisan politics.
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Rep. Tim Burchett has reignited the UFO disclosure debate by claiming the fight over secret UAP programs has become a "fistfight" that has been raging since 1947.
As journalist Matt Laslo approached Burchett as he was getting into a car, they had a brief interchange in which Burchett mentioned “the deep state” was blocking the White House from getting their hands on UFO-related files.
And when it came to the man at the top, President Donald Trump, Burchett said, "He's in it, but he's the one that's being denied," implying that the president may well be able to endorse releases of UFO evidence, but his access to archival information remains limited.
The Tennessee Republican argued that hidden bureaucratic resistance extends across political parties, describing the system as "crooked as a dog's leg."
And by referencing 1947, which many see as the start of “UFO lore,” especially due to the Roswell incident in which the US army allegedly recovered a flying disc, before retracting their statement, and amending it to being because of a weather balloon.
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The debate regarding gatekeepers' classified information isn’t new in the UFO question, with space experts at NASA weighing in on rumors of a bigger disclosure, or even a slow-burn notion of piece-by–piece bits of evidence, like a puzzle, as described by Steven Greer.
As co-chair of the Congressional UAP Caucus, Burchett has become one of Capitol Hill's most vocal advocates for greater government transparency on unidentified anomalous phenomena.
His latest remarks add to a growing narrative among disclosure supporters that elected officials may not have complete oversight of alleged UAP programs.
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A fistful of comments
Despite the fact that Burchett was in transit when approached, his brevity on the matter irked one Redditor.
"I don’t like his use of 'deep state'... He should be more specific and call out who exactly is blocking things... names, defense contractors, etc."u/Glass-Formal-9263
In support of President Trump, the same user said, “I fully believe [the president] isn’t fully read in and that it’s being controlled by a more deeply embedded group of non-elected military/intelligence people."
The Reddit r/UFO forum is a passionate place for UFO enthusiasts to sound off their opinions.
These comments can veer from the outright skeptical: "He’s playing his supporters for fools. Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court. Do your job, Tim!"
To the supportive: “Democrats and Republicans are united on the issue. It's not a party issue, it's like he said, deeper.”
Whatever the “deep state” may be, Burchett’s brief moment might just have cast the right amount of phosphorescence over a dubious department.
