AN American congressman has claimed aliens could be hiding out in "five or six" underwater bases off the US coast.
Tennessee congressman Tim Burchett said alien "entities" were reportedly already living in deep-water areas on Earth .
The claims from the member of the House Oversight Committee that oversees UFO reports caused a massive stir on social media .
In a now viral video posted to social media platform X on September 17, Burchett suggested that advanced alien beings or civilisations may have been hiding under the sea for "millennia".
In a sidewalk interview with UFO researcher and documentary maker Red Panda Koala (a pseudonym), Burchett added that there had been frequent sightings of unidentified crafts in around five or six specific deep sea areas.
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