There is compelling evidence we have threats to global security not from this earth, according to Tennessee congressman Tim Burchett — and it’s time the American people learned the truth.

Burchett appeared on John Michael Godier’s Event Horizon podcast last week to discuss the government’s cover-up of extraterrestrial technology. The congressman, who sits on a House committee investigating UFO sightings, claimed that alien spacecrafts can travel at the speed of light, fly underwater and turn people into “charcoal briquettes.