Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senator Mike Rounds (R-SD) introduced a bipartisan amendment to the NDAA that would declassify the government’s UFO records.
Majority Leader Schumer’s office announced in a statement:
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senator Mike Rounds (R-SD), senior member of the Cybersecurity Subcommittee for the Armed Forces Commission, are leading an amendment – Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Disclosure Act of 2023 – jointly with Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) Vice Chairman of the Intelligence Committee; Senator Kristen Gillibrand (D-NY), chair of the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities for the Armed Forces Commission; Senator Todd Young (R-IN); and Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM) who would increase transparency around unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) and promote scientific research.
The legislation introduced as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which will be on the Senate floor next week would direct the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to create a collection of records known as as the UAP Records Collection. and instruct each government office to identify which records would be included in the collection. The UAP Records Collection would have a presumption of immediate disclosure, meaning a review committee would have to give a reason to keep the documents secret.
One thing Republicans and Democrats can agree on after the spate of public officials either accidentally (Pence and Biden) or intentionally keeping classified documents (Tump) is that the United States government has an overclassification problem.
It’s time Congress gave agencies a reason why some documents are classified.
Do we need documents related to UFOs and unexplained secrets?
Transparency in government is good for democracy. Promoting scientific research is good for humanity.
Legislation and amendments are often introduced that have no chance of becoming law.
This will probably become law. Because it has the support of Republicans and Democrats, it will pass the Senate version of the bill as long as House Republicans don’t pull it out of their version. It should be in the final legislation that will eventually be passed and signed by President Biden.
Senate Majority Leader Schumer said: “The American public has a right to learn about technologies of unknown origins, non-human intelligence and unexplained phenomena. We are working not only to release what the government has previously learned about these phenomena, but also to create a pipeline for future research to be made public. I am honored to carry on the legacy of my mentor and good friend, Harry Reid, and to fight for the transparency the public has long demanded around these unexplained phenomena.
The American people have a right to know, and soon they will probably find out.