The UFO Tape Logan Paul Hid For Three Years
- Cristina Gomez
- Apr 14
- 4 min read
UAP disclosure hit a wall this week — and a congressman said so publicly. While Tim Burchett told journalist Matt Laslo that full UFO truth is nearly impossible to obtain through legal channels, a secret UFO tape filmed in the Nevada desert in the 1990s quietly entered the public domain for the very first time. This article covers both stories in full.
UAP Caucus Co-chair Tim Burchett gave journalist Matt Laslo of Ask a Pol one of the most candid on-record assessments of the disclosure landscape to date. According to the April 10th phone interview, Burchett stated plainly that he does not believe the public will receive the full UAP information through normal government channels. His view is that the only realistic path forward is if the right people reach President Trump directly and persuade him to act before those opposing disclosure do. Burchett confirmed he raised the UAP issue personally with Trump on the morning of the State of the Union address and described the president as receptive — but noted that even presidential willingness may not be enough, given where the material may actually be held.
Per the interview, Burchett outlined a structural problem. A significant portion of UAP-related programs and materials may reside inside private military contractors rather than government agencies. This placement removes them from the reach of Freedom of Information Act requests, which can only compel government bodies to respond. Burchett told Laslo this was a deliberate design choice, and that a formal presidential amnesty program may be the only mechanism capable of drawing that information out.
On April 6th, four days before the interview, Burchett introduced H.R. 8197 — a bill to terminate AARO, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, within 60 days of passage. According to Congress.gov, the bill not only abolishes the office but prohibits any successor entity, making a simple rebrand legally impossible. Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna had already called for AARO’s defunding earlier this year, and her separate deadline to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth demanding the release of 46 classified UAP videos passed on April 14th with no videos released as of yet.
Burchett also addressed the growing number of UAP-connected scientists who have gone missing or died under unexplained circumstances — a count he placed at more than nine. He offered an analogy describing the pattern as a calculated deterrent aimed at lower-profile figures to send a warning up the chain. He then stated publicly that he is not suicidal, framing it as personal protection — a strategy drawn from the same playbook Bob Lazar used in 1989 when he went public primarily to make himself harder to silence quietly.
The footage now known as the Chuck Clark tape entered the public domain for the first time on April 13th, 2026, via Jesse Michels’ American Alchemy podcast — but its origins stretch back decades. The tape was originally filmed in the 1990s by two college-age men who encountered an orange disc near the Black Mailbox, a stretch of road in Rachel, Nevada that runs directly toward Groom Lake, the classified facility Bob Lazar has long identified as near where he worked. After the encounter, the men handed their physical VHS tape to Chuck Clark — a local UAP researcher and former military individual — with the explicit understanding that he would keep it private. Clark honored that agreement for decades, showing the original only to a very small circle of trusted researchers. One of them was documentary filmmaker James Fox, who viewed the tape in the mid-1990s and consistently described it as among the most compelling UAP footage he had ever encountered. It was through Fox that Logan Paul learned of its existence. Paul traveled to Clark’s residence in Rachel, Nevada, arriving with $100,000 in cash and an offer to purchase the tape outright. Clark refused. Paul then requested only to view it on Clark’s television screen, which Clark agreed to — unaware that Paul was wearing a hidden button camera and secretly recording the entire playback. That covert copy is what Paul held privately for approximately three years before choosing to release it.
The decision to reveal the footage on American Alchemy was made more significant by who Paul showed it to first. Sitting across from Bob Lazar on camera, Paul screened the recording and Lazar’s reaction was immediate. He confirmed that the object’s orange glow, its wobbling and undulating motion, and its overall shape matched precisely what he claims to have examined at S4 during his time working on classified propulsion research. Lazar attributed the orange color to ionized nitrogen plasma — the result of nitrogen, Earth’s dominant atmospheric gas, interacting with a strong gravitational field — an explanation consistent with what he has described for decades. The footage itself is grainy, filmed at distance through a covert device, and falls short of being conclusive evidence on its own. However, the combination of its long-protected history, the provenance connected to the Black Mailbox location, and Lazar’s unscripted on-camera confirmation has made it one of the most discussed UAP releases in years. As of April 14th, 2026, Chuck Clark has issued no public statement regarding the release, and questions of legal ownership, ethics, and provenance remain fully unresolved.
Sources
Jesse Michels. (2026, April 13). I spent 48 hours with Bob Lazar (Inside Area51’s UFO program) [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9tdJ2SkBKQ
Laslo, M. (2026, April 10). UAP Caucus Chair dubious of disclosure: “I really don’t think we’re going to get this information.” Ask a Pol UAP. https://www.askapoluaps.com/p/burchett-dont-trust-the-fbi?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5nx2m7&triedRedirect=true
Logan Paul. (2026, April 9). My warning to IShowSpeed [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWMMkTDBEZ4
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