Marco Rubio

U.S. Senator (R-FL); has held positions on the Senate Intelligence Committee with public UAP advocacy. As of 2025-2026 also serving as U.S. Secretary of State under donald-trump.

UAP positions

2025-2026 — SecState and Acting NSA

Per src-uap-transparency-stalls-2025-12, Rubio is now Trump’s Secretary of State and acting National Security Adviser. Although a uap-disclosure-act co-sponsor as senator, he has been inactive on UAP transparency legislation in his current role. Rep. tim-burchett is reportedly scheduled to meet with Rubio to raise UAP issues directly.

June 9, 2026 — named in nonhuman-bodies briefings

At the June 9, 2026 Capitol Hill press conference, leslie-kean named Rubio (via kirk-mcconnell) as among senators briefed about recovered nonhuman bodies (src-lawmakers-crash-retrieval-immunity-2026-06).

2023 — Senate Intelligence Committee reluctant-witness remarks

As then-Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2023, Rubio said multiple individuals with firsthand UAP knowledge approached the committee but hesitated to speak publicly, citing job security, clearance loss, career damage, and personal-safety concerns. This 2023 remark resurfaced in July 2026 coverage of donald-trump’s NDA-waiver directive as context for the whistleblower-reluctance problem the directive aims to address (src-trump-uap-nda-waiver-directive-2026-07).

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