Bipartisan lawmakers claimed the federal government is not transparent about the occurrences of unidentified aerial phenomena, even accusing their congressional colleagues of participating in the “stonewalling” of information.

Reps. Tim Burchett, R-tenn., Anna Paulina Luna, R-fla., Jared Moskowitz, D-fla., Matt Gaetz, R-fla., Andy Ogles, R-tenn., and Eric Burlison, R-MO., held a Capitol press conference Thursday detailing the obstacles they’ve run into as they’ve attempted to investigate UAPS, commonly known as UFOS, and the lack of information regarding them.

According to Burchett, they’ve encountered “a lot of pushback from the intelligence community, members of Congress, and of course our friends at the Pentagon.”

He described an amendment he had proposed to the recent Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill, which would have required “the FAA to report UAP sightings by commercial pilots to Congress.” This amendment, though, was “shut down,” he said. Burchett claimed House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-minn., told him the intelligence community was responsible for his amendment’s demise.

“When you’re over the target, that’s when you get the most fire,” Burchett noted.

Luna echoed the Tennessee Republican’s claim that fellow lawmakers are intentionally making the campaign for transparency more difficult. “Some members have stonewalled our efforts to get transparency, and this is also unacceptable,” she said.

This is particularly what Moskowitz said piqued his interest in the subject. For him, it was odd that each time they would gain traction in their investigation, they would get “stonewalled.”

He stressed that the push for this transparency isn’t about finding extraterrestrial life. He posed the scenario that these UAPS are advanced technology instead. “If these are advanced technologies, we aren’t interested in hurting national security, but we are interested in knowing what these UAPS are,” he claimed.