In an interview with former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., said he believes aliens are hiding under the sea.

Burchett was responding to Gaetz asking about unidentified anomalous phenomena being reported over water.

“I haven’t been briefed on this, just from what I’m putting together, but we have some secret sonar,” Burchett said. “But what’s so crazy about it, like we’re hiding it from the Chinese. The Chinese sold us the components for it — they know what’s in our sonar probably better than we do. But when they tell me something’s moving at hundreds of miles an hour underwater, and our capabilities are, I don’t think we have anything that’ll do 40 miles an hour, and this one was as large as a football field underwater, and this was a documented case, and I have an admiral telling me this stuff.”

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