A POLITICIAN has revealed he was warned to stop asking questions about UFOs as “people couldn’t handle” the truth. Rep. Tim Burchett said someone at Capitol Hill told him “there would be riots” if details on what the US really knows about UFOs were disclosed.

The congressman – a long-term advocate for disclosure – has said he intends to push for more hearings on the UFO phenomena.

Officials at the Pentagon have long denied there is any evidence of aliens visiting Earth.

Earlier this month, the authority released a dossier to the public detailing events back to 1945.

It insisted there were no hidden UFO programmes within the government – and that there is no evidence of extraterrestrial activity.

But Burchett previously told The Sun that the world is being lied to about UFOs.

The Tennessee Republican has pushed for more whistleblowers to come forward as he pushes for more hearings.

It comes after former intelligence officer David Charles Grusch made extraordinary claim the US has wreckage from “non-human craft” and even “dead pilots”.

His remarkable claims so far have not been backed up by hard evidence, but have sent a UFO shockwave through Washington DC.

UFOs are now more commonly referred to in official circles as UAP – Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).

Burchett told NewsNation: “We’re going to hopefully have some whistleblowers in there to blow the lid off some more stuff so get read.”

According to Burchett, many in Congress believe UFOs originate from a non-human intelligence.

But he revealed he was urged by someone at Capitol Hill to stop pursuing transparency over UFOs.

Burchett told Trey Smith: “It was kind of weird, a guy walked up to me that I knew and said ‘you know Tim, we really don’t need to put this stuff out. People couldn’t handle it, there would be riots’.”

He said he told the man that if he held forums in different cities, people would say they want to know the truth as they want answers.

Speaking to The Sun, Burchett previously challenged someone inside the defence department to come forward with hard evidence – such as a photo or video – to truly blow the lid off the “cover-up”.

See video at  The Sun