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Eric Burlison

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Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) is a leading UAP legislative figure in the 119th Congress, serving on the House Oversight Committee alongside anna-paulina-luna and tim-burchett.

Key Actions

  • Introduced the UAP Disclosure Act of 2025 as an NDAA amendment on August 29, 2025, seeking government record preservation, National Archives access, and an independent declassification board for UAP records.
  • At the September 9, 2025 House hearing (src-uap-transparency-hearing-2026-04), publicly released for the first time footage of an MQ-9 firing a Hellfire missile at a high-speed orb off Yemen (October 2024). The object was struck but continued on course, apparently intact.
  • Co-drafted UAP transparency legislation with Rep. Luna and Rep. Burchett.
  • January 2026 (Varginha 30th-anniversary press conference): Attended james-fox’s UAP (UFO) Press Conference marking the 30th anniversary of the varginha-incident; publicly framed his legislative push as “marching orders” from witness testimony and called for passage of the uap-disclosure-act and either bundled or standalone uap-whistleblower-protections. Said he remains “skeptical until I get my hands on physical evidence” but is “going to take it seriously investigating myself” (src-burlison-marching-orders-2026-01).
  • April 2026: referred the May 2024 death of UAP whistleblower Sullivan (Bronze Star intelligence officer, nasic/nsa) to the fbi as “sudden and suspicious,” days before he was scheduled to testify on crash-retrieval-programs (src-sullivan-whistleblower-death-2026-04). Adds a whistleblower-safety advocacy dimension to his prior legislative profile.

May 8, 2026 PURSUE Reaction

After the pursue launch, Burlison posted on X: “This is a historic first step… Thank you for taking on the swamp to make this release happen. You are the president of the people!” The Washington Examiner (src-war-department-uap-declassification-2026-05) framed Burlison and tim-burchett as the named congressional beneficiaries of the rollout, omitting anna-paulina-luna.

His office issued a formal House press release the same day (src-burlison-commends-trump-uap-release-2026-05) titled “Burlison Commends President Trump’s Historic Release of UAP Files,” elevating the X-post messaging to official congressional-office language. Notable elements:

  • Confirms the official PURSUE acronym expansion and lists interagency participants verbatim — White House, odni, department-of-energy, department-of-war (housing aaro), nasa, fbi, “additional components of U.S. intelligence agencies.”
  • Codifies the “disclosure president” frame in formal venue: “He is the only president willing to stand up to the deep state and push this information out to the American people. Trump has been the disclosure president!”
  • Cites “years of classified briefings, whistleblower interviews, and oversight work” as personal background.
  • Newsweek’s May 8 coverage (src-newsweek-luna-teases-disclosure-2026-05) attributes a parallel “historic first step in what I trust will be just one of many” line to Burlison.

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