Schumer–Rounds UAP Disclosure Act introduced

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) introduce the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act of 2023 as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act. The legislation proposes a nine-member presidentially appointed Review Board modeled on the JFK Records Review Board.

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On 13 July 2023, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) filed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 titled the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act of 2023. The amendment proposed a presidentially appointed nine-member Review Board, explicitly modeled on the Assassination Records Review Board established by Congress in 1992 to declassify materials related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

The Schumer–Rounds amendment proposed that all U.S. government records related to UAP be presumed publicly disclosable within twenty-five years and that the Review Board exercise eminent-domain authority over any 'technologies of unknown origin' or 'biological evidence of non-human intelligence' held by federal contractors. A substantially narrowed version of the legislation was enacted in the FY2024 NDAA in December 2023; the Review Board provisions were not included.

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U.S. Senate (Schumer–Rounds amendment)

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