Mike Rounds
U.S. Senator (R-SD); senate-armed-services-committee member. On-camera in the 2025 documentary the-age-of-disclosure discussing UAPs (src-age-of-disclosure-review-2025-03). Co-sponsored Senate UAP transparency efforts including the uap-disclosure-act alongside Sen. chuck-schumer.
December 2023 floor colloquy
Primary-source text at src-schumer-rounds-uap-colloquy-2023. Rounds frames the UAPDA as “closely modeled on the JFK Records Act,” names the FY2024 NDAA conference’s rejection of (a) the presidentially-appointed Senate-confirmed citizen Review Board and (b) the requirement to recover UAP material or biological remains “provided to private entities in the past and thereby hidden from Congress,” and confirms data exists at “more than just the Department of Defense, but by other agencies of the federal government as well.”
December 2025 transparency stall
Per src-uap-transparency-stalls-2025-12, Liberation Times reports a “disconnect” in Rounds’s posture: forceful in his December 2023 floor colloquy with Schumer pledging to keep pushing the Review Board, but more hedging since — including reportedly being unaware of the status of his own UAPDA amendment in 2025 NDAA negotiations. Sources say Rounds has signaled the provision was acceptable in the Senate but blocked in the House, while the language ultimately did not appear in the Senate’s FY2026 NDAA version either.