FY2022 NDAA: UAP office & annual reports
The National Defense Authorization Act for 2022 ordered the Pentagon to set up a permanent UAP office and report to Congress every year.
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The account
Signed in December 2021, the law required a single office to collect and analyse UAP data across agencies, plus annual unclassified reports. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand had pushed for an even stronger version. Section 1683 of the law (Public Law 117-81, 135 Stat. 2118-2123) gave the Pentagon 180 days to set up the office and close the UAP Task Force. It also required a science plan to test theories for UAP performance 'that exceed the known state of the art', and annual reports until 31 October 2026 covering health effects, efforts to capture or exploit UAP, and incidents near nuclear weapons, nuclear-powered vessels and NRC-regulated sites.