Tennessee Republican says UFOs are in the Bible

You might not remember Republican Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee, but you probably remember his "We're not gonna fix it” response to the mass shooting at a Nashville-area private school in March. Burchett was true to his word—he didn’t do anything except vote to expel state legislators who did try to pass gun safety laws.  

But Burchett’s real bread-and-butter issue is UFOs. The U.S. government has renamed unidentified flying objects as unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). Burchett has been particularly vocal in his belief that what people see in the skies are objects of intelligent design—not from our planet. (Cue the music!) With a recent spate of reported sightings, and a new “whistleblower” story making the rounds in (mostly) the right-wing media bubble, Burchett is out and about promoting his version of little green men.

Speaking with Steve Bannon, Burchett explained that UAPs have been around for millennia, according to his reading of the Bible—by way of the television show “Ancient Aliens:”

“I mean, they’re in the Bible. Read the first chapter of Ezekiel. It’s a King James version. It’s a translation, but it describes a wheel within a wheel. It describes what I would call the classic saucer-shaped UFO. It’s in the Bible. In hieroglyphics. It’s in Dark Ages’ paintings. It’s there.”

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