Tim Burchett says the UFO file releases are moving through Congress

Tim Burchett is saying the new UFO file releases are changing the temperature in Congress.

In a May 21 hallway interview with Ask a Pol UAP, published May 23, Burchett was asked whether other members of Congress had been talking to him more since the Pentagon started releasing files. His answer was yes.

He also said he had been talking to the White House or agencies "pretty much" every day that week, and that he does not think another hearing is the next step.

"We've had enough hearings," Burchett said. "We just need disclosure."

That line lands differently after PURSUE Release 02.

Earlier in May, Burchett told the Ruthless podcast that there were "30 or 40" clearer UFO videos that the public had not seen. Fox News published that interview on May 14, a few days after the first PURSUE release and before the second one.

Release 02 then put a larger batch of public material online: documents, NASA audio records, and dozens of video records. Some of those videos are interesting. Some look thin without metadata. Some may turn out to have ordinary explanations. A few appear to be exactly the kind of public file that still needs original context before anyone can say much.

That gives Burchett's claim a narrower public-record question.

Are the clearer videos he describes part of the same release pipeline, still waiting for a later PURSUE tranche? Or is he talking about a different set of material that has not entered the public file trail at all?

The public record does not answer that yet.

What has appeared publicly is Burchett saying Congress is paying more attention, a new release program publishing UAP records in tranches, and a second release that includes a much bigger video set than the document bundle alone.

What has not appeared publicly is a list tying Burchett's "30 or 40" clearer videos to specific PURSUE IDs, AARO case numbers, congressional requests, or release dates.

So the next thing to watch is not just whether more files appear. It is whether a future release lets the public match Burchett's description to named records: original files, dates, platform notes, sensor context, and chain-of-custody language.

For now, the claim is still active. The file trail has not caught up to it.

Sources

• Ask a Pol UAP: Pentagon UFO files "absolutely" woke Congress up, Rep. Tim Burchett says, published May 23, 2026.
• Fox News / Ruthless: Rep. Tim Burchett says 30-40 unreleased UFO videos are still being withheld, published May 14, 2026.
• UAP Logbook: What is PURSUE? The UAP records release program explained.
• UAP Logbook: PURSUE Release 02: ODNI orb narrative, Sandia files, and the video gap.
• Department of War: PURSUE UAP portal.