Republican Rep. Tim Burchett said in an interview Wednesday that a Navy admiral, whom he did not identify with, told him an unidentified craft was moving through the sea at incredible speeds. .

The Tennessee congressman told the former Republican congressman: "They told me the water was moving hundreds of miles an hour underwater...as big as a football field." Matt GaetzNow, he hosts a show on U.S. News.

"It's a documented case that I have admirals telling me these things."

Burchett is famous for saying the U.S. government has a hidden presence UFO There is other extraterrestrial activity, and given "the vastness of God's great universe," anything is possible.

However, he told Americans not to worry about suspicious extraterrestrial advances.

"I'm not worried about them hurting me," he said. "I mean, with this ability, they would have roasted us a long time ago." There is no evidence of intelligent life beyond Earth.

But reports of mysterious flying objects have led Congress to take the topic of the once widely derided UFOs - now often referred to as unidentified anomaly (UAPS) - Stuck in a serious problem.

March 2024, The Pentagon released a report It had no evidence of UFOs, saying many of the suspicious sightings were just weather balloons, spy planes, satellites and other normal activity.

The Pentagon rejected claims made by a former Air Force intelligence officer during a 2023 congressional hearing that the U.S. government had recovered a series of unidentified aircraft that crashed over the decades and even had non-human "biology."

In November, Pentagon office investigated reports received from UAP 21 reports last year This contains enough data to allow the intelligence community to continue an active investigation.

UAPS Includes various strange objects or data points detected in the air, land or sea. The most well-known UAPs are reported by military pilots, who typically describe round or cylindrical objects traveling at high speeds with no apparent means of propulsion. Some objects are already capture on video.

The military has launched efforts to help pilots report UAPs in recent years, and pentagon office Hundreds of reports have been filed in recent years by those working to examine encounters.

Many UAP reports have been shown to have innocuous origins, but a subset has no simple explanation. The issue has drawn renewed attention from lawmakers over the past few years, with heightened concerns about the national security implications of unknown objects in U.S. airspace.