A Congressman Has Been Receiving Death Threats. He Says Alien Craft the Size of a Football Field Are Moving at Hundreds of Miles Per Hour Underwater.

Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee, who sits on the House Oversight Committee and has been one of the most publicly aggressive members of Congress on UAP transparency, told IBTimes UK in an interview published April 22, 2026 that he has received death threats over his outspoken position on UAP disclosure. In the same interview, he described receiving classified briefings from military personnel including a former naval admiral, in which he was informed of underwater objects moving at speeds of hundreds of miles per hour in five or six specific deep ocean zones, one of them the size of a football field. He described multiple categories of craft reported by military personnel: disc-shaped objects, plasma-like phenomena, and wedge-shaped underwater structures. He said he believes entities with the technology to produce these objects have established bases beneath Earth’s oceans, and have likely been there longer than human civilization has existed. He characterized the government files on these subjects as “sinister.”

Burchett, who helped organize the July 2023 congressional UAP hearings at which multiple military whistleblowers testified under oath about government crash retrieval programs, and who confirmed a 14-minute private conversation with President Trump about UAP disclosure this month, said in the April 22 interview that he has “seen too much” during classified briefings to treat the issue as ambiguous.

The underwater dimension of his account is among the most specific claims he has made to date. Burchett told IBTimes that a former naval admiral briefed him personally on sonar detections and sightings of high-speed underwater craft in concentrated zones of the deep ocean. The speed differential he cited is significant in context: the fastest known US Navy submarines travel at approximately 25 to 35 knots — roughly 29 to 40 miles per hour — and physics in water, which is approximately 800 times denser than air, imposes severe resistance penalties on fast-moving objects at scale. An object the size of a football field moving at hundreds of miles per hour underwater would require propulsion and drag-management technology with no known human equivalent.

Burchett said the activity is concentrated in “five or six deep area, deep water areas” where there is what he described as a “higher propensity of sightings.” He stopped short of claiming these are confirmed alien bases, but said his own conclusion, based on the briefings he has received from trained military personnel across multiple years, is that something with very advanced technology has made Earth’s oceans a home base — and has been doing so for longer than anyone currently in government knows how to explain.

The Death Threats

Burchett’s revelation that he has received death threats over his UAP advocacy is a new escalation. He said the threats may be connected to his UAP remarks, his broader outspoken political style, or both. He did not specify the number or nature of the threats or identify any law enforcement investigation into them, but he said he refuses to be intimidated into silence.

It is worth noting that Burchett has made a practice in recent months of stating publicly and on the record that he is not suicidal — an unusual piece of personal disclosure that he first offered unprompted in March 2026 amid discussion of the pattern of deaths and disappearances of scientists with classified access. His reason for stating it, as he told Fox News at the time, was to establish a pre-emptive public record given the nature of the information he has access to and the positions he has publicly taken.

What He Thinks Is Being Hidden

Burchett has described the UAP files held by the US government in increasingly pointed terms. “There’s something going on, and it has been going on for some time,” he told reporters earlier this month, referencing the string of deaths and disappearances among researchers and officials with classified access. He has said he believes the cover-up has persisted across multiple administrations due to institutional concerns about the implications of full public disclosure — concerns not just about panic, but about the economic, religious, and geopolitical consequences of confirming the existence of non-human technology that human civilization cannot replicate.

He welcomed Trump’s February 20 UAP disclosure directive and the “very interesting documents” Trump confirmed finding, but expressed skepticism in the April 22 interview that the full, unedited record would ever be released. “Citizens have a right to decide what they can handle,” he said. “Disclosure should not be restricted by assumptions about public reaction.”

Former DNI Tulsi Gabbard, appearing recently on a public podcast, said separately that she personally still has “a lot of questions that are unanswered” about unexplained phenomena. The pattern of senior officials expressing private doubts about official explanations publicly has continued to accelerate.

Sources: IBTimes UK — US Representative Claims ‘Sinister’ UFO Files Exist as He Reveals Death Threats and Underwater Alien Bases (April 22, 2026) — Unexplained Mysteries — Rep. Tim Burchett on UAPs: ‘One Was as Large as a Football Field’ (April 23, 2026) — UFO News — Navy Told Congressman About Football-Field Size USOs — Colombia One — US Congressman Says Officials Briefed Him on Alien Contact Claims (April 7, 2026)