In February 2026, Rep. Eric Burlison, a Missouri Republican on the House Oversight Committee, said he had learned in closed briefings that an unidentified craft is being kept at a secret location overseas. It is so large, he said, that it couldn’t be moved, so a building was put up around it, and the site is under guard.

He laid out the claim on the Aliens Last Night podcast, recorded Jan. 30, and repeated it on Newsmax in mid-February. Burlison said he had toured one classified U.S. site and planned at least three more visits, with the foreign facility as the final destination. He said the Trump administration had told the Pentagon to make his visits happen. He declined to name the country, citing classification rules. Asked on air whether it was South Korea, he wouldn’t say, and he added that it isn’t the facility people have widely reported.

Online sleuths went looking anyway. Some pointed to a domed mountaintop structure outside Seoul that is officially an aeronautical communications station run by the Korea Airports Corporation. Others suggested a site in Yangju, north of the capital. A South Korean UFO researcher said the Yangju facility dates to the 1970s and has nothing to do with UFOs.

No evidence has been made public, and no U.S. agency has confirmed or denied the claim. Burlison has also said he tried twice to reach retired Gen. Neil McCasland about UAP before McCasland disappeared.