The government is inching closer to revealing what it knows about the existence of UFOs.

But some forces want to keep the truth buried.

And a key congressman said his life is in danger for knowing this UFO truth.

Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett has long tried to prepare Americans for what he’s seen about the extent of the government’s knowledge of UFOs.

Burchett previously told Americans that “you’d be up at night” if they had access to the classified information he’s seen about the government’s UFO program.

British journalist Piers Morgan put the question to Burchett straight.

“Let me start with a very direct question. Do you believe aliens exist?” Mogan asked.

“Yes, sir. I do,” Burchett replied.

Burchett then went on to cite several passages from the Bible that he argued were evidence of ancient aliens.

The Tennessee Congressman said video and photographic evidence, as well as the testimony of U.S. Navy pilots who encountered UFOs while on missions, were too overwhelming to dismiss.

 “We’ve seen too much. I’ve seen too much. Not myself personally, but out when I’ve been briefed by government officials. Video, pictures. Some of the best-trained pilots in the world have described having close collisions with some sort of aircraft or apparatus, and so I think it’s time that they come clean,” Burchett added.

Burchett went on to say that he wasn’t saying the UFO pilots were “little green men,” but that the American people are owed “transparency” and “disclosure.”

“I don’t know if it’s about little green men or flying saucers, Mr. Morgan, but I do think it’s about disclosure, it’s about transparency, and as a member of the media, you should be all for that regardless. I just want to know what we’re spending tens of millions of dollars on,” Burchett continued,

Morgan asked if Burchett had seen hard evidence about the existence of UFOs, and Burchett said he had, unless every government briefing he attended was a hoax and the pilots were lying.

“Well, unless dozens of federal authorities are lying to me and pilots are lying to me, and the pictures and videos and things they’ve shown me are complete fabrications, and if they are, then I guess I haven’t. But have I seen a craft or anything flying over me that was unidentifiable? No, sir, I have not personally,” Burchett stated.

Burchett then described what he heard in these briefings as “troubling.”

“Some of the stuff I’ve heard is pretty troubling. It’s very troubling,” Burchett told Morgan. “To think that we just deny their existence and then we have aircraft, half a billion dollar aircraft with some highly trained professionals on it that are put into harm’s way, and we’ve had to scrub missions before because something’s out there and the Pentagon claims that they do not know of it. And it’s not going to be ours, sir, because if it were ours, we wouldn’t risk those lives, and we value life.”

Morgan then wondered if Burchett feared for his life over what he knows and has seen.

 “You obviously have a lot of information which could be very explosive, and there are people clearly you believe who don’t want this information out there. Do you ever fear for your safety? Have you had any threats telling you to shut up?” Morgan asked Burchett.

Burchett revealed he faces constant death threats for speaking out about the government’s knowledge of UFOs.

“Well, I constantly have death threats on my life, sir. I’ve been warned many times about doing certain events, parades, things like that,” Burchett concluded. “I’m not sure if it’s about this issue or just that I’ve got a big mouth and that I don’t filter it, and I’m sick of the American public being lied to about a lot of issues.”

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