Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) — Co-chair, Congressional UAP Caucus
Listen: Laslo & Burchett
Ask a Pol UAP asks:
The Congressional UAP Caucus has been really outspoken lately on classified info, is that cause y’all are banking on disclosure coming from President Donald Trump?
Key Burchett:
“We’re just frustrated, brother,” Burchett exclusively tells Ask a Pol UAP. “We’re just frustrated.”
Do you think full disclosure is actually coming?
“I really don’t think we’re going to get this information,” Burchett says. “The one shot we’ve got is somebody gets to the President before the other side does and says ‘release it’ and he pulls a classic Trump and does what he wants to do, regardless. Which I, in this case I would love that.”
Burchett reveals more details on his UFO chat with President Trump the morning of the State of the Union address, after we ask:
Does the White House even know where to look?
“I told him, look, it’s so many levels of this thing — you got to peel back that onion. I said we need to get to the bottom of it. He was very receptive.”
Because there’s a chance UFO files are held by military contractors, so it could even be outside the government entirely?
“Exactly,” Burchett says. “That’s why they’ve done it. It’s (un)FOIA-able — that’s why I think it’s going to be almost next to impossible unless Trump grants them some sort of amnesty to come forward.”
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Other UAP Caucus members want to replace AARO, while Burchett just wants to blow it up:
“I’m tired of restructuring government. We just end up with the same dad-gum thing every time,” Burchett says. “I just want to do away with it.”
ICYMI — UAP Caucus left FBI gushing
What should we ask Congress this week?
Caught our ear, per the FBI’s UFO office:
“I don’t trust the FBI to do anything,” Burchett says.
Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol UAP’s exclusive phone interview with Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN), slightly edited for clarity.
TRANSCRIPT: Rep. Tim Burchett (4-10-2026)
SCENE: Congress is still off for their two week Easter recess, so Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo called UAP Caucus Co-chair Rep. Tim Burchett by phone for a candid check-in on all things UAP — from a new bill to blow up AARO, to missing scientists, to details of his UFO conversation with President Donald Trump…
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Transcript I — first half of Burchett call
Matt Laslo: Hey, how you livin’?
Rep. Tim Burchett: I’m just livin’ the dream. I got this inner ear problem so I’m having trouble hearing. Hang on, let me turn the volume up here. I’ll put it in my good ear. What’s up?
Laslo: I was just wondering if you had a minute. There’s been so much news these past week or so.
Burchett: Crazy, man. Matt Gaetz — when he said that, what he said, you know. He didn’t say that it was going on, that they’re interbreeding with aliens, but he did say that he was briefed on it and it was a military guy. And I remember — we get briefed on this stuff individually. People come up and tell you stuff and people want to meet with you and you always do. And of course he represented one of the biggest military installations in the country. So, I think he had more military people in his district than anybody in Congress, so…
Laslo: Huh.
Burchett: You know, and then they started asking me about it, and I was like, ‘Well, yeah. I haven’t seen it, but I’ve heard about it.’ Everybody has, but anyway. What’s up?
Laslo: Do you — it’s kinda feels like you guys on the UAP Caucus have been a little more talkative, almost like…?
Burchett: We’re just frustrated, brother. We’re just frustrated.
Laslo: Yeah?
Burchett: And honestly, that’s — the only way we’re going to get this stuff out is talking about it. You know, it’s a crazy thing with the news, what’s gonna go viral and what isn’t. I’ve never quite figured out that magic formula with the news, you know? Sometimes I’ll post something and think, ‘wow, this is going to go crazy,’ ‘This will freakin, I’ll get a million views’ and I’ll get 20,000 views. Then I’ll post some obscure something and all of a sudden it just blows up. I don’t know if it’s the time of day or the day of the week or what it is.
Laslo: I’m a media professor on the side and I wish I could help you but I can’t. I don’t know the science myself.
Burchett: Algorithms or whatever they call them, I’m sure some egghead tells you this stuff, but the reality is I just don’t think anybody really knows what the magic formula is. I mean, if you’re Elon Musk you can say anything and it’ll, you know, but I don’t have that luxury. Anyway, what can I do for you, brother?
Laslo: I was curious if have you guys have had any communication with the White House or DNI [Director of National Intelligence] or FBI [Federal Bureau of Investigation]? Like, it feels like from what you guys have been saying — just more talkative out there — that you really feel like disclosure is coming.
Burchett: Well, I go back and forth. I really don’t think they’re going to give us everything. I think they’re going to try to hide it…
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