Rep. Tim Burchett
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And I said, really, why?
And I said, well, probably because...
the original report is probably going to have something in it, and they're going to pull it back.
And sure enough, they did, and it was heavily redacted, and it was just a big fluff piece, nothing.
And then I said the magic words, which I ended up putting on one of my T-shirts, which I sell on my website, that more people believe in UFOs than believe in Congress.
And for good reason.
And for great reason.
And so...
People started calling me, you know, all these national figures that you see, reporters, legitimate reporters like yourself, people from all over the country.
And so I started asking questions.
And I get with Luna and some other folks.
Matt Gates was involved in it at the time.
And we went to the chairman and said, let's have a hearing.
And I think they really, Tucker, I think they just patted us on the head and said, sure, we'll have the hearing, you know, and they're going to make fun of you and go on.
Turned out, I talked to some old timers that were there, reporters.
They said that was the most, the most attended hearing they'd ever had.
They had to open up another room and there were people lined up down the hall.
When I walked out at 10,
I see it was, I guess in the morning I walked out of office, had to be on an early show about it.
At 4.30 in the morning, people were already lined up outside the building and they come from all over the country.