Five Republicans Who Blocked the UAP Disclosure Act — Named, With Their Alleged Principals
Watergate and Pentagon Papers lawyer Daniel Sheehan — representing UAP whistleblowers — publicly named the five Republican politicians who blocked the UAP Disclosure Act in 2023. He also named who he believes pressured them: Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Radiance Technologies, and the CIA’s Directorate of Operations.
The Five
Sheehan identified: Senators Roger Wicker and Mitch McConnell, and Representatives Mike Turner (House Intelligence Chair), Mike Rogers (House Armed Services Chair), and Mike Johnson (Speaker). He stated 98% of Congress supported the bill — only these five blocked it.
The two chairpersons have been gotten to by the private aerospace industry and by the CIA. Who knows what positive offers they’ve been made for additional campaign contributions, or what kind of threats have been made to them? The CIA’s covert operations people are capable of delivering.
— Daniel Sheehan, President of New Paradigm Institute
The Contractor Pressure
Turner chairs the House Intelligence Committee — which oversees AARO and classified UAP programmes. Rogers chairs Armed Services — which controls defence contractor relationships. Both positions sit at the intersection of UAP programme oversight and contractor lobbying. Sheehan named Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Radiance Technologies as applying pressure. Liberation Times was unable to independently corroborate specific mechanisms.
The Pattern Persists
The Disclosure Act failed in 2023. It failed again in 2024. It failed in 2025. The same individuals or their institutional successors have successfully prevented the legislation from passing for three consecutive years. The amnesty provisions — which would protect contractors who come forward — have been consistently stripped. Whatever information the programmes contain, the contractors and their congressional allies have decided it will not be voluntarily disclosed.