Government withholding information on UFOs from the public, GOP rep says

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ©2026 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Factset. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Legal Statement. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by LSEG. Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., suggests the federal government is withholding information about UFOs on the "Will Cain Country" podcast. Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn, expressed skepticism in a new interview that the federal government has been forthcoming on what it knows about UFOs. "The truth is, is that the government is not telling us everything about what's going on," Burchett said on Wednesday's installment of the "Will Cain Country" podcast. "I believe there is something else going on — it's not ours, it's not the Russians', it's not China's. If either one of them had it, they would own us, even more so than China does now," he continued. "So I think the only other option is that it is something maybe not of this world or of this world that's been here for a while, and we're just not looking in the right places. And I believe there's some people in