UAP Disclosure Act
Senate-led UAP transparency legislation championed by Sen. Chuck Schumer with support from Sen. mike-rounds. Senate-passed in 2023 as part of the FY2024 NDAA. Its UAP Records Review Board (UAP RRB) provisions — modeled on the JFK Records Review Board, with eminent-domain authority over UAP materials held by private contractors — were deleted in the FY2024 NDAA conference under opposition from defense-industry allies, and again omitted from the FY2025 cycle.
tim-gallaudet (in his Nov 2024 House Oversight testimony) and the uap-disclosure-fund / sol-foundation continue to advocate for revival of the RRB provisions (src-gallaudet-house-testimony-2024-11).
A separate House-side UAP Disclosure Act of 2025 introduced by Rep. eric-burlison as an NDAA amendment seeks government record preservation, National Archives access, and an independent declassification board.
December 2025 — FY2026 NDAA exclusion
Per src-uap-transparency-stalls-2025-12, the UAPDA was again excluded from the final FY2026 NDAA, and the language did not even appear in the Senate version this cycle. Liberation Times reports:
- chuck-schumer and mike-rounds were “relatively muted” compared with their forceful December 2023 colloquy.
- HASC chair mike-rogers told eric-burlison the provision could only be added with “Four Corners” sign-off — concurrence from chairs and ranking members of HASC, SASC, HPSCI, and SSCI — characterized as designed to fail.
- The senate-armed-services-committee held no public AARO oversight hearing in 2025 after Republicans assumed the gavel, breaking the 2023–2024 pattern.
- Sources cited alleged threats against Senate staff as one factor in waning Senate-side enthusiasm.
- House Oversight advocates (anna-paulina-luna, tim-burchett, eric-burlison) continue pressing via the task-force-on-declassification-of-federal-secrets; Burlison floated an Epstein-list-style subpoena motion.
January 2026 Varginha-anniversary push
At the January 2026 varginha-incident 30th-anniversary press conference hosted by james-fox, Burlison publicly framed his UAP-disclosure agenda as legislative “marching orders” from witness testimony and called for either bundled or standalone whistleblower protections within the Act. Distinguishes the Burlison-led UAP Disclosure Act of 2025 from the Burchett/Luna standalone H.R. 5060 (src-burlison-marching-orders-2026-01, src-uap-whistleblower-protection-act-2025-09).