Burlison’s UAP Disclosure Amendment Left Out of Defense Bill
Summary
On June 29, 2026, Rep. eric-burlison personally appeared before the house-rules-committee to press for inclusion of his UAP transparency amendment in the annual defense authorization bill. The committee did not select the amendment for floor consideration, meaning it will not receive a House vote. The amendment was modeled on the JFK Records Review Board template underlying the uap-disclosure-act: a centralized National Archives UAP-records collection, a 300-day agency transfer deadline, anti-destruction/anti-reclassification protections, extension of disclosure duties to FFRDCs and contractors, and a nine-member, Senate-confirmed UAP Records Review Board with subpoena power. The Rules Committee approved the debate rule 8-4 on a party-line vote, with no separate recorded vote on Burlison’s amendment specifically. This is at least the third consecutive NDAA cycle in which Burlison-linked UAP-transparency provisions have failed to advance — following the FY2024 conference strip of the Senate-passed Records Review Board and the FY2025/FY2026 omissions documented in src-uap-transparency-stalls-2025-12 — and comes just four days after Sens. mike-rounds and chuck-schumer publicly pledged a renewed Senate-side push at the June 25 Disclosure Forum (src-disclosure-forum-june25-2026-06).
Key Claims
- The House Rules Committee did not select Burlison’s UAP amendment for floor debate on the FY2027 NDAA.
- Amendment provisions: JFK-Act model, NARA centralized collection, 300-day agency deadline, anti-destruction/anti-reclassification/redaction rules, FFRDC/contractor coverage, nine-member presidentially-appointed/Senate-confirmed Review Board with subpoena and facility-access authority.
- The Rules Committee approved the debate rule 8-4 along party lines; there was no separate recorded vote on the Burlison amendment itself.
- Burlison personally testified before the committee — a step few defense-bill amendment sponsors take.
- This marks a recurring pattern: Senate RRB provisions stripped in the FY2024 NDAA conference, omitted again in FY2025, excluded again from the final FY2026 NDAA (src-uap-transparency-stalls-2025-12), and now not advanced for FY2027 — at least three, arguably four, consecutive NDAA cycles without survival of this legislative language.
Notable Quotes
“The UAP information belongs to the American people.” — Rep. Eric Burlison
“Transparency is a simple step toward restoring public trust.” — Rep. Eric Burlison