Government13 Jul 2023Washington, D.C.

Schumer-Rounds UAP Disclosure Act introduced

Name: Schumer-Rounds UAP Disclosure Act introduced
Start: 2023-07-13
Location: Washington, D.C.

The amendment text of the UAP Disclosure Act of 2023 released by Senators Schumer and Rounds Sen. Chuck Schumer and Sen. Mike Rounds, United States Senate, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Senators Chuck Schumer and Mike Rounds filed the UAP Disclosure Act as an amendment to the Senate defense authorization bill. Modeled on the JFK records law, it would have created a UAP records collection at the National Archives and an independent review board.

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OfficialCongressional Record, July 13, 2023, Senate: SA 797 (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act of 2023) to S. 2226 (opens in a new tab)Congressional Record (congress.gov) / 2023-07-13
OfficialSchumer, Rounds introduce new legislation to declassify government records related to unidentified anomalous phenomena and UFOs (opens in a new tab)Senate Democrats (Office of the Majority Leader) / 2023-07-14

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26 Jul 2023Whistleblowers

David Grusch testifies

Former Air Force intelligence officer David Grusch testified under oath that he had been told of a decades-long program to recover craft of non-human origin, which he said he learned through interviews rather than firsthand access. The Pentagon and AARO have said they found no verifiable evidence of such programs.

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14 Sep 2023Government

NASA UAP study team publishes its report

NASA's independent UAP study team released its final report, urging better-calibrated sensors and data and a larger NASA role. It said the scientific literature holds no conclusive evidence of an extraterrestrial origin. NASA said it was appointing a director of UAP research.

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22 Dec 2023Government

FY2024 NDAA creates the National Archives UAP Records Collection

The FY2024 defense bill, signed Dec. 22, 2023, kept a reduced version of the Schumer-Rounds UAP Disclosure Act, ordering agencies to send UAP records to a new National Archives collection. Conferees dropped the proposed independent review board and the push to obtain privately held material.

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9 Jun 2022Government

NASA announces UAP independent study team

NASA said it would commission an independent team, chaired by astrophysicist David Spergel, to study unidentified aerial phenomena using only unclassified data and recommend how NASA could help. The 16-member team began work in October 2022.

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