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Disclosure Foundation

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Disclosure Foundation

Nonprofit advocating UAP transparency through legal action, policy advocacy, and whistleblower support.

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  • Recurring on-the-record critic of aaro’s reporting cadence and classification record.
  • Cited as a counterweight to skeptics in PURSUE-era coverage (see src-sciam-pursue-skeptics-2026-05).
  • Provides interpretive framing for journalists covering uap-disclosure policy.
  • Takes pursue Release 01 “at face value as a genuine transparency effort — while remaining clear-eyed that genuine efforts can still fall short” (Mellon, May 2026).

Disclosure Forum (June 25, 2026)

The foundation convened the Disclosure Forum 2026 on June 25, 2026 in the Kennedy Caucus Room, Russell Senate Office Building, with legislators, national-security officials, scientists, legal experts, and journalists. chris-mellon delivered the keynote; Senators mike-rounds and chuck-schumer announced a renewed NDAA amendment; lue-elizondo received the inaugural Disclosure Award. Reps. anna-paulina-luna, eric-burlison, tim-burchett, and andre-carson were honored for transparency work. Bipartisan polling cited at the forum: 89% of Republicans and 88% of Democrats favor greater government UAP transparency. (src-disclosure-forum-june25-2026-06, src-disclosure-forum-2026-06)

NSA FOIA Release (May 2026)

In May 2026, the foundation released more than 300 pages of nsa intelligence reports on UFO sightings obtained through a FOIA request and subsequent appeal. Many records were formerly classified top-secret-umbra. The documents are linked to a 1980 FOIA lawsuit and the Yeates Memo (declassified 2009), whose supporting materials had been withheld until this appeal succeeded. Chief legal officer hunt-willis leads the ongoing legal effort against remaining NSA redactions on UAP material dating to the 1960s (src-disclosure-foundation-nsa-documents-2026-05, src-newsweek-pursue-13-jets-star-object-2026-05).

This represents a non-governmental, legal-process channel for UAP document release, distinct from the executive-branch pursue initiative.

NASA Archives Review (June 24, 2026)

The foundation announced a review of nasa archival material for UAP information, applying AI/ML to flag anomalous imagery and data for further investigation and public/government sharing. Executive committee: mike-gold, jordan-flowers, beatriz-villarroel, maaneli-derakhshani, travis-taylor, reggie-brothers, and stephen-bruehl. This is a separate, foundation-led track distinct from the government-tasked uap-science-advisory-council, though it overlaps in personnel and rationale (src-disclosure-foundation-nasa-archives-review-2026-06).

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