WASHINGTON — In a revelation that’s fueling fresh buzz in UFO circles, Tennessee Republican Congressman Tim Burchett has claimed that extraterrestrial beings might be hunkered down in as many as five or six underwater bases lurking off the United States’ coastline.

The outspoken lawmaker, a key voice in congressional probes into unidentified aerial phenomena, dropped the eyebrow-raising assertion during a casual sidewalk chat that’s since gone viral, insisting that advanced alien “entities” could have been chilling in Earth’s deep seas for millennia.

Burchett, a member of the House Oversight Committee tasked with sifting through UFO reports, made the comments in a video interview posted to X on September 17, 2025, with UFO researcher Red Panda Koala.

Chatting just days after a high-profile congressional hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs), he pointed to persistent sightings by naval personnel of mysterious underwater crafts zipping through the ocean at speeds that make U.S. submarines look like they’re standing still.

“We have naval personnel telling me that we have sightings … of these underwater crafts that they’re chasing,” Burchett said, his tone a mix of intrigue and exasperation. “[The underwater crafts] they’re chasing are doing hundreds of miles an hour, and the best we’ve got is something that does maybe just a little bit under 40 miles an hour.”

He added that he’s got “a lot of questions about that stuff,” hinting at classified briefings that have left him pondering whether these aren’t just rogue tech but signs of something far more otherworldly.

Key Witness Reports Raise Questions About Secrecy

The claims echo testimony from the September 9, 2025, House Oversight hearing, where whistleblowers shared gripping accounts of UAP encounters.

One standout moment: a video clip showing an orb-like object shrugging off a direct hit from a Hellfire missile, only to split into four parts that kept flying. Burchett, who’s been pushing for transparency on these mysteries, suggested in the interview that advanced alien civilizations might have been hiding under the waves for “millennia,” evading detection while humanity bobs along on the surface.

Diving deeper into the speculation, UFO researcher Dr. Michael Salla, speaking on the Redacted podcast on September 19, zeroed in on the Bahamas as a prime suspect spot. He highlighted the Tongue of the Ocean—a plunging deep-water trench off Andros Island that drops to around 3,000 feet—as a potential hotspot.

“Credible whistleblowers, including senior military and executive branch officials, have confirmed underwater bases,” Salla said, drawing parallels to the U.S. Navy’s secretive Atlantic Undersea Testing and Evaluation Center (AUTEC) in the area, often dubbed the “Area 51 of the ocean.”

Salla referenced one whistleblower, known only as “JP,” who claimed a wild abduction story: whisked by Black Hawk helicopter to an ocean platform, then onto a high-tech submarine crewed by tall, Nordic-looking extraterrestrials. JP described the sub—capable of space travel—ferrying him to a domed underwater city resembling a submerged Dubai, complete with a massive white pyramid, to snag an artifact.

No physical proof has surfaced from these encounters, but Salla insists they’re backed by multiple sources.

Skeptics, however, aren’t buying it without hard evidence.

Skeptics Want More Than UFO Encounter Stories

Critics point out that while naval sightings of fast-moving underwater objects are intriguing, they lack peer-reviewed data or verifiable artifacts—like clear footage or recovered tech—to back the alien base theory. “Anecdotal reports from military folks are compelling, but we need more than stories to rewrite oceanography,” one aerospace analyst told Veritas News.

Burchett’s remarks come amid a surge in UAP interest on Capitol Hill, with lawmakers from both parties demanding declassification of files. The Tennessee rep has been at the forefront, grilling officials on everything from orbs dodging missiles to potential non-human tech.

His latest claim adds fuel to the fire, especially as the Navy’s AUTEC—rumored to test exotic propulsion—sits smack in that Bahamian deep.

For now, the ocean’s depths remain a black box, hiding secrets that could be submarine rivals, natural phenomena, or—dare we say—visitors from afar.

Burchett’s got questions, and with more hearings on the horizon, answers might just bubble up.

Are the American people, and the world, getting ready for bigger answers?

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