Summary
The new-paradigm-institute publishes the full proposed legislative text of the uap-disclosure-act (UAPDA), the most comprehensive UAP transparency bill introduced in Congress. Championed by chuck-schumer and mike-rounds, the bill would establish a UAP Records Collection at the national-archives, create a 9-member independent uap-records-review-board with subpoena power, impose a presumption of immediate disclosure on all federal UAP records, authorize the federal government to exercise eminent domain over recovered technologies-of-unknown-origin and biological evidence of non-human-intelligence held by private entities, and define key terms including “legacy program,” “close observer,” and “controlling authority.” The bill explicitly cites inadequacy of FOIA and overbroad atomic-energy-act exemptions as barriers to disclosure, and authorizes $20M for implementation.
Key Claims
- All federal UAP records carry a presumption of immediate disclosure; must be publicly accessible within 30 days of receipt by the Archivist, digitized within 180 days (Sec. L104)
- Disclosure may be postponed only for grave national-security, source-protection, privacy, or confidentiality reasons — and all records must be disclosed within 25 years unless the President personally certifies continued postponement (Sec. L105–L106)
- The uap-records-review-board comprises 9 impartial citizens (including a national-security official, scientist, economist, historian, and sociologist), appointed by the President with Senate approval; empowered to subpoena, hold hearings, and compel agency transmission (Sec. L107)
- The federal government shall exercise eminent domain over all recovered UAP technologies and biological evidence of non-human-intelligence, including materials held by private contractors (Sec. L110)
- “Legacy program” is defined as any effort to collect or reverse-engineer UAP technologies predating the Act — the first statutory acknowledgment of such programs (Sec. L103)
- “technologies-of-unknown-origin” covers any materials, vehicles, or equipment lacking known human manufacture (Sec. L103)
- UAP definition includes six observables: instantaneous acceleration, hypersonic velocity without thermal signature, transmedium travel, non-aerodynamic lift, multispectral signature control, and biological/physical effects on observers (Sec. L103)
- FOIA is declared inadequate and Atomic Energy Act exemptions are cited as a barrier to UAP record disclosure (Sec. L102)
- $20,000,000 authorized for FY2025 implementation (Sec. L114)
- Review Board sunsets September 30, 2030 unless extended (Sec. L107)
Notable Quotes
“Credible evidence shows UAP records exist that have not been declassified due to Atomic Energy Act exemptions and overbroad interpretations of ‘transclassified foreign nuclear information.‘” — Sec. L102(a)(4)