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.
Key points
- Proposed a UAP records collection at the National Archives with a presumption that records should be made public.
- Proposed an independent review board, appointed by the President, to decide what stays secret.
- Proposed that the government take control of any recovered “technologies of unknown origin”.
- The final law kept the records collection but dropped the review board and the recovery powers.
Why it matters
Its text, written by Senate leaders, is the clearest statement of what disclosure advocates wanted from Congress.
Read it yourself
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U.S. Senate (Schumer–Rounds amendment). (2023). UAP Disclosure Act proposal (2023). https://www.democrats.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/uap_amendment.pdfRelated records
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.
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.
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.
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.