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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).
  • June 2025: participated in a U.S. press conference with steven-greer and jaime-maussan introducing the Buga Sphere to U.S. audiences (per src-buga-sphere-ibtimes-ball-from-nowhere-2026-03). The event generated coverage but produced no verifiable evidence; the Buga claims have since been rebutted by src-buga-sphere-carbon-dating-debunk-2026-04 and rejected by named Colombian astronomers.
  • 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.

Theological framing of UAP (May 2026)

In a Capitol-corridor interview reported by Courthouse News Service (src-religious-republicans-uap-files-2026-05), Burlison engages the theological frame directly for the first time in the vault — declining to dismiss Boebert’s demonic reading but advising scriptural caution:

“The Bible, for example, doesn’t say that Satan has a tail, horns and a pitchfork… I think we need to stick to the facts, stick to what the Bible really says. That gives me a lot of comfort, because of the things that I’ve seen and been briefed on — it does fit, really even underscores the Christian worldview.”

He speculates that Old-Testament writers may have witnessed UAP-like phenomena, while maintaining his own approach is “more secular” and truth-seeking. Places him as a moderate Republican voice in the theological-uap-framing cluster between Boebert’s demonic register and Burchett’s open-cosmology Ezekiel/Genesis reading.

May 15, 2026 — Joint Luna–Kosloski review session

Per anna-paulina-luna’s X post that day (preserved in src-debrief-pursue-next-batch-preview-2026-05), Burlison joined Luna and AARO director jon-kosloski for a review of “40+ videos set for declassification” — the queue feeding pursue Release 02. This places Burlison alongside Luna in the formal video-clearance loop, extending his role beyond legislative drafting into operational declassification review.

New Whistleblower and SCIF-First Strategy (Dec 2025)

In a December 16, 2025 interview, Burlison confirmed a new UAP whistleblower lead who “might go public” but is not yet comfortable doing so, and revealed a strategic shift to SCIF-first classified briefings over public hearings — designed to let witnesses speak freely under classification protections before any public session (src-new-uap-whistleblower-scif-2026-05).

“Right now we’re focused on getting some people in a SCIF… who would not be comfortable at this time going public.”

“There’s one person that’s a new whistleblower that we have a lead on that might go public.”

May 2026 — MITRE / FFRDC UAP-records inquiry

On May 26, 2026, Burlison’s office announced (src-burlison-mitre-press-release-2026-05) that he had transmitted legislative interrogatories and production requests to The MITRE Corporation, a federally funded research and development center, seeking records on its potential custody, control, analysis, transfer, destruction, or withholding of UAP-related records — including recovered materials, transmedium data, and alleged legacy reverse-engineering programs — dating back to 1930. DefenseScoop (src-burlison-mitre-uap-records-2026-05) reports MITRE confirmed it is reviewing its archives to comply.

The request builds on a prior Burlison letter to MIT Lincoln Laboratory over the Beacon Hill Study and the “AF-ATIC-FILM, 03/52” reel, and invokes the FY2024 NDAA UAP Records Collection (NARA Record Group 615) transfer mandate. Burlison argues FFRDCs “cannot become private vaults for federal records” and demands a preservation hold, a records-location index, and a classified briefing for Task Force members. This extends his whistleblower/FFRDC-accountability work into a concrete contractor-side records demand running parallel to the executive-branch pursue rollout.

“This inquiry does not require MITRE to accept any particular conclusion about the origin or nature of UAP. It requires MITRE to tell Congress what it knows, what it holds, what it has held, what it has transferred, what it has destroyed or was directed to destroy, and which federal sponsors or classification authorities control any responsive records.”

June 9, 2026 — Grusch disclosure press conference

Burlison is a slated participant in a Capitol Hill UAP disclosure press conference headlined by david-grusch and hosted by leslie-kean and james-fox. He credited Trump as “the first president to take concrete steps towards transparency on UAP” while warning that “career intelligence officials” may obstruct the directive, and tied the event to passage of the uap-disclosure-act (src-grusch-disclosure-press-conference-2026-05).

At the June 9 presser itself, Burlison urged Trump to waive NDAs and grant immunity to whistleblowers and crash-retrieval operatives, calling for “real penalties for officials who knowingly withhold information.” He disclosed MQ-9 Reaper UAP footage from Yemen obtained via a “Tom Clancy-style dead drop,” and cited an FBI report on the 1996 Varginha case as confirmed by former Brazilian defense minister aldo-rebelo (src-fox-grusch-hidden-billions-2026-06, src-lawmakers-crash-retrieval-immunity-2026-06).

Dallas amnesty remark (June 2026)

Per lue-elizondo’s June 3, 2026 Liberation Times interview (src-elizondo-no-going-back-disclosure-2026-06), Burlison appeared with Elizondo at a Dallas speaking event and told the audience that WH Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller had discussed the possibility of amnesty for UAP whistleblowers, with Burlison proposing a 60-day window for individuals to come forward. This extends his uap-whistleblower-protections advocacy toward an executive-action amnesty mechanism for the alleged Legacy Program.

June 13, 2026 — Expanded contractor investigation

Per src-thehill-burlison-private-labs-2026-06 (The Hill), Burlison’s contractor UAP records investigation has expanded beyond mitre to encompass RAND Corporation, Aerospace Corporation, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and Northrop Grumman. MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s attorneys responded quickly and agreed to comply within 30 days; the specific trigger for the MIT LL inquiry was a 1952 “flying saucer talk.”

Burlison’s clearest public articulation of the underlying theory to date:

“If you really want to hide something from Congress, you don’t put it in a government file cabinet. You hand it to a private contractor.”

This escalation extends the ffrdc accountability template established with mitre in May 2026 to include both nonprofit research centers (rand-corporation, aerospace-corporation) and a major defense prime (northrop-grumman). david-grusch has separately stated that private contractors are being used to make it more difficult for lawmakers to access certain programs.

June 29, 2026 — House Rules Committee amendment rejection

Burlison personally appeared before the house-rules-committee to press for inclusion of his UAP transparency amendment (JFK-Act model: centralized nara records collection, 300-day agency transfer deadline, anti-destruction/reclassification protections, FFRDC/contractor coverage, nine-member Senate-confirmed uap-records-review-board with subpoena power) in the FY2027 NDAA. The Committee approved the debate rule 8-4 along party lines without selecting the amendment for floor consideration — no separate recorded vote occurred on it. This marks at least a third consecutive NDAA cycle in which Burlison-linked UAP-transparency provisions have failed to advance, coming just four days after the Senate-side revival pledge at the June 25 Disclosure Forum.

“The UAP information belongs to the American people.” — Eric Burlison

“Transparency is a simple step toward restoring public trust.” — Eric Burlison

See src-burlison-uap-amendment-dropped-ndaa-2026-06.

June 25, 2026 — same-day podcast on warp-bubble propulsion

Per avi-loeb’s July 1, 2026 Medium essay (src-loeb-orbs-fireballs-council-2026-07), Burlison joined a same-day podcast with Loeb and physicist hal-puthoff discussing Puthoff’s spacetime-distortion/warp-bubble UAP propulsion hypothesis, raised the same day at the Senate Disclosure Forum science panel.

June 10, 2026 — Newsweek Varginha recap quotes

A Newsweek explainer on the varginha-incident (src-varginha-files-campaign-2026-06) carries two new on-record quotes on decades of UFO secrecy: “For decades, the American people have been treated like children, told there are government secrets they just don’t get to know,” and “This information belongs to the American people. They own it. And they deserve the truth.”

July 8, 2026 — CIA/FBI Varginha records letters

Burlison, as a member of the task-force-declassification-federal-secrets, sent letters to CIA Director john-ratcliffe and FBI Director kash-patel demanding an accounting of U.S. government records tied to the 1996 varginha-incident, triggered by aldo-rebelo’s recent public statements. The CIA letter surfaces a prior private FOIA request (Ref. F-2023-00442) that received a January 10, 2025 neither-confirm-nor-deny response citing exemptions (b)(1) and (b)(3); the FBI letter asks the bureau to determine investigative equities and brief Congress. This extends his FFRDC/contractor-accountability template (mitre, mit-lincoln-laboratory) to intelligence agencies and to a foreign incident for the first time. (src-burlison-varginha-cia-fbi-records-2026-07)

June 25, 2026 — Disclosure Forum

Burlison was honored at the disclosure-foundation Disclosure Forum 2026 for UAP transparency work alongside Reps. anna-paulina-luna, tim-burchett, and andre-carson. He announced that MIT Lincoln Laboratory will provide a recording of a 1952 Air Force UFO briefing connected to Washington, D.C. incidents — first public disclosure of this specific record. He also reiterated his call for NDA waivers and immunity for whistleblowers: “The people are very frustrated when they find their government thinks that they should keep information from the people.” (src-disclosure-forum-june25-2026-06)

August 1, 2026 — Publicly releases ODNI NDA-waiver implementation memo

Burlison’s office publicly released, with administration authorization, an odni memorandum (ES 2026-00818, signed by Principal Deputy DNI aaron-lukas) providing preliminary implementation guidance for Trump’s July 21 UAP NDA-waiver directive. Continues his pattern of publishing primary-source UAP records via his House office. (src-odni-nda-waiver-memo-2026-07)

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