The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the U.S. agency responsible for preserving and providing access to federal government records.
Role in UAP disclosure
Under the FY2024 NDAA, NARA is the designated home of the national UAP Records Collection (Record Group 615). Federal agencies — and, per Rep. eric-burlison, contractors and FFRDCs such as MITRE and MIT Lincoln Laboratory — are directed to identify, review, digitize, and transfer appropriate UAP records to NARA for public release (src-burlison-mitre-press-release-2026-05).
This NARA-housed collection is the surviving “National-Archives-only” outcome of the uap-disclosure-act after the proposed presidentially-appointed UAP Records Review Board and the recovered-material / eminent-domain provisions were stripped in the FY2024 NDAA conference (src-schumer-rounds-uap-colloquy-2023).