Law creates the UAP Records Collection (FY2024 NDAA)
🏛️ U.S. Congress
The National Defense Authorization Act for 2024 included a slimmed-down version of the UAP Disclosure Act, creating a UAP records collection at the National Archives.
Key points
- Told federal agencies to find their UAP records and send them to the National Archives.
- Records go into the collection to be made public unless an agency gives a reason to hold them back.
- Dropped the independent review board and the power to take over recovered technology.
Why it matters
It is the legal basis for the National Archives’ UAP collection (Record Group 615).
Read it yourself
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U.S. Congress. (2023). Law creates the UAP Records Collection (FY2024 NDAA). https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2670Related records
UAP Disclosure Act proposal (2023)
U.S. Senate (Schumer–Rounds amendment)
A bipartisan amendment from Senators Chuck Schumer and Mike Rounds to the 2024 defense bill, modelled on the JFK Records Act, to collect and release government UAP records.
Defense law creates a permanent UAP office (FY2022 NDAA)
U.S. Congress
The National Defense Authorization Act for 2022 (Section 1683) required the Defense Department and the intelligence agencies to set up an office to lead UAP work.
Senate Intelligence Committee asks for a UAP report (2020)
U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
In its report on the Intelligence Authorization Act for 2021 (Senate Report 116-233), the committee directed the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense to deliver an unclassified report on unidentified aerial phenomena.
Michael Shellenberger’s written testimony and “UAP Timeline” (2024)
Submitted to the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability
Journalist Michael Shellenberger’s 214-page written testimony for the House hearing “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth.” It argues that the Pentagon and intelligence agencies are withholding UAP information from Congress, and it attaches a 617-entry chronology of UAP events and claims from 1947 to 2023.