Restoring Public Trust Through Uap Transparency and Whistleblower Protection

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I would like to go back now on our lightning round of questioning
to Representative Burchett and then Burlison.
Burchett, always number one.
Mr. BURCHETT. As well I should be. Number one in your heart,
number 435 on the chart, that is me.
Dylan, knowing you testified to AARO, are they obfuscating
when they claim to have discovered no evidence of extraterrestrial
beings, activity, or technology? And are they lying to the American
public?
Mr. BORLAND. As I said before, it is a manipulation of the public
perception. The statement ‘‘scientific evidence of extraterrestrials’’
is a true statement. It is not the truth about what is happening
and what we have.
Mr. BURCHETT. Would any of you all like to comment on that fur-
ther? Mr. Knapp, you are getting edgy.
Mr. KNAPP. Well, it is splitting hairs. No proof that there are
extraterrestrials, what would that proof look like, a piece of
kryptonite? What would it be? I mean, we could be talking about
different forms of nonhuman intelligence. I think the dominant
paradigm is that they come from outer space, somewhere else, and
they have some way that they can cross those vast distances that
we cannot even imagine doing but not necessarily—that is not nec-
essarily the answer.
So, asking for proof of extraterrestrials might not be the answer
at all. It is splitting hairs. You know, we do not know where they
are from. I do not know anyone who knows the answer for sure.
They call them aliens just as a place-keeper kind of a word. But
no one in all these programs who have studied this stuff for years,
people with much bigger brains than mine, knows the answer for
sure.
Mr. BURCHETT. I mean, I have talked to Navy folks that some
of the deep sea areas, they think there might be something there
that they are here, and I do not know when they got here.
Another point that needs to be made is every time—you know,
we say we are going to back engineer or whatever you want to call
it these craft. I always say it would be like if you took a—I ride
motorcycles, but if you took like an Indian or a Harley to the peo-
ple that came over here on the Mayflower, you know, they would
see a bright, shiny object. They might polish it. You know, they
might get it started. I doubt they could. They could not work on
it. They could not put fuel—they would not have the capability of
putting fuel in it.
I just think that, you know, we are scratching at something that
we do not have any knowledge of, and that is why it has just taken
so dadgum long. But they do know the first one that cracks that
code, it is over. I mean, it is energy, it is power, it is everything.
And I worry, too, that in the wrong hands that they do that, they
keep it from the rest of us because they are so invested in whatever
energy sources we have here that their billionaire buddies are
going to profit, and they cannot retool because they know once it
is out on the internet, it is over.
And so, I think there are a lot of things going after, and I think
that is why the move to discredit folks is so rapid too. I think, you