An Ask a Pol subscriber(!!!!!) had a clarifying question for you: Is there a group now above AARO — the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office — when it comes to UAP disclosure within the federal government?
Key Burlison:
“Not yet. There might be,” Rep. Eric Burlison exclusively tells Ask a Pol UAP. “There might be. I don’t know yet.”
It sounds like you all in the Congressional UAP Caucus, kind of, left AARO — because they just never had your heart or trust — for the FBI UFO unit?
“I want as many agencies investigating this topic as possible, because we need as many perspectives on this. Some are going to be a good referee on the other,” Burlison says. “It’s my personal opinion, we need AARO. We need the FBI. We need everybody that can investigate this to be investigating it.”
SCENE: Just ahead of a floor vote, Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo jog-runs through a marble-clad corridor just off the floor of the US House of Representatives and catches Rep. Eric Burlison right before he walks into the chamber.
Matt Laslo: Hey, Congressman Burlison!
Laslo hustles to catch up with the Congressman (and there’s no running in the Capitol, they say…).
ML: [An Ask a Pol subscriber!!!!!] had a clarifying question for you: Do you know, is there a group now above AARO when it comes to disclosure?
ML: Because we haven’t really heard much, if anything, from AARO.
EB: No, I haven’t heard much from them in a while either.
ML: Yeah. But it also sounds like you guys in the UAP Caucus kind of left them for the FBI group? Because they just never had your heart or trust.
EB: That — for me, that’s not the case. I think that — look, I want as many agencies investigating this topic as possible. Because we need as many perspectives on this. And look — some are going to be a good referee on the other. So I think that — it’s my personal opinion, we need AARO. We need the FBI. We need everybody that can investigate this to be investigating it.
ML: Have you talked with [FBI Director Kash] Patel? Like, is he opening up files for you all? [Secrets Chair Anna Paulina] Luna seemed to hint at that on Bill Maher.
ICYMI — Secrets Chair Luna discusses UFO w/ Bill Maher
EB: I don’t have a direct contact with Patel.
ML: Me neither.
Laslo laughs.
ML: Yeah.
Burlison motions he needs to vote as he takes a step towards the House floor.
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