LEGISLATION — ACTIVE

The Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act of 2023 was introduced by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senator Mike Rounds (R-SD) as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for FY2024. It establishes a mandatory government review and public disclosure framework for all UAP-related records held by federal agencies, the military, and private contractors — explicitly modelled on the JFK Records Collection Act of 1992.

The Act creates a UAP Records Review Board with subpoena power and authority to compel disclosure from private aerospace contractors. It sets a presumption of disclosure — all UAP records are to be made public unless the Review Board specifically exempts them on national security grounds. It explicitly covers recovered materials of non-human origin. The original draft included language requiring private contractors to surrender recovered UAP materials to the government — language that was significantly weakened before passage.

The Act sets a deadline of December 2026 for full disclosure of UAP records. This is the same deadline referenced by multiple congressional witnesses. If the Review Board fails to act by that date, records are automatically declassified. The weakened version passed in the NDAA stripped the contractor surrender requirement and removed the automatic declassification trigger, replacing it with presidential override authority.

Bipartisan. Schumer, Rounds, Kirsten Gillibrand, Marco Rubio, and others have publicly backed disclosure legislation. The Senate Intelligence Committee has held classified briefings on UAP. Representative Tim Burchett and others have publicly stated they believe the government is concealing craft and biological material.

The UAP Disclosure Act is the most significant legislative development in UAP transparency since the 1970s. Its passage — even in weakened form — represents a congressional acknowledgment that non-human materials and craft may be in the possession of private contractors operating outside legal government oversight. The December 2026 deadline is the next critical date in the disclosure timeline.

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