The Schumer–Rounds UAP Disclosure Act
In July 2023 Senators Chuck Schumer and Mike Rounds introduced an amendment to the FY2024 defence bill modelled on the JFK assassination records law.
2023 CE · 38.89, -77.01 · status: official
The account
The proposed Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act of 2023 would have created a UAP records collection at the National Archives with a presumption of disclosure, an independent review board, and federal eminent domain over any recovered 'technologies of unknown origin and biological evidence of non-human intelligence' held by private companies. The Senate passed its version of the NDAA, with the amendment, on 27 July 2023. The use of the phrase 'non-human intelligence' in a bill from the Senate majority leader was itself treated as a milestone by disclosure advocates.
The sceptical view
The bill assumed nothing; its language created procedures for records that might exist, and the strongest provisions did not survive the House.
Connections in the atlas
- Chuck Schumer and Mike Rounds: Re-introduced the UAP Disclosure Act, with its nine-member U
- UAP Disclosure Act re-introduced
- Christopher Mellon: As Schumer, Rounds and Gillibrand filed the UAP Disclosure A
- UAP Records Collection at the National Archives
- Chuck Schumer and Mike Rounds: Introduced the UAP Disclosure Act as an NDAA amendment. It w
- UAP records law enacted (FY2024 NDAA)
- House Oversight hearing: Grusch, Fravor and Graves
- Grusch testimony