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UAP Disclosure Act

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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 Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, with 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.

December 2023 — Schumer-Rounds floor colloquy

The primary-source text of the December 13, 2023 Senate floor colloquy (src-schumer-rounds-uap-colloquy-2023) names the FY2024 NDAA conference’s stripped-down outcome: the National Archives received a legal mandate to gather UAP records government-wide, but the presidentially-appointed, Senate-confirmed citizen review board and the requirement that the government recover UAP material or biological remains “provided to private entities in the past and thereby hidden from Congress” were both rejected. Schumer characterizes the loss as leaving declassification “largely up to the same entities that have blocked and obfuscated their disclosure for decades.” Rounds confirms data exists at “more than just the Department of Defense, but by other agencies of the federal government as well.” The surviving National-Archives mandate is the UAP Records Collection (nara Record Group 615); Rep. eric-burlison’s May 2026 interrogatories to the MITRE ffrdc operationalize it by extending records-preservation demands to private contractors (src-burlison-mitre-press-release-2026-05, src-burlison-mitre-uap-records-2026-05).

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:

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).

June 2026 — Grusch press-conference push

A June 9, 2026 Capitol Hill press conference, hosted by leslie-kean and james-fox and headlining whistleblower david-grusch, was organized to rally support for the Act’s passage. Reps. eric-burlison, anna-paulina-luna, tim-burchett, and Democrat jared-moskowitz are slated to participate, framing the moment as moving “from testimony to action” while the executive-branch pursue releases continue (src-grusch-disclosure-press-conference-2026-05). At the presser, Reps. Burlison, Moskowitz, Luna, and Burchett renewed the push for the Act, emphasizing its whistleblower-protection provisions (src-washington-examiner-grusch-slush-fund-2026-06).

June 29, 2026 — FY2027 NDAA exclusion

The House Rules Committee declined to select Burlison’s FY2027 NDAA amendment (again proposing the nine-member Records Review Board) for floor consideration, despite his personal testimony before the committee — extending the multi-year exclusion pattern (FY2024 conference strip, FY2025 omission, FY2026 exclusion) to at least a third, arguably fourth, consecutive cycle. This lands just four days after Sens. mike-rounds and chuck-schumer’s June 25 Disclosure Forum pledge to revive the Act on the Senate side (src-disclosure-forum-june25-2026-06). See src-burlison-uap-amendment-dropped-ndaa-2026-06.

July 2026 — claimed House adoption (unconfirmed)

Per a July 22, 2026 press release from Rep. eric-burlison’s office, the House adopted his UAP Disclosure Act as an amendment to the FY2027 NDAA (H.R. 8800), which purportedly now moves to the Senate. This directly reverses the June 29, 2026 exclusion above and is thinly corroborated — only Burlison’s office and a local Missouri outlet (Newstalk KZRG) report it; no Reuters, AP, The Hill, Politico, or Defense News confirmation was found as of July 24, 2026. Treat as an unconfirmed claim pending independent verification or the official congressional record. See src-burlison-ndaa-uap-amendment-adopted-2026-07.

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