Schumer UAP Disclosure Act

The Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act was a 2023 Senate proposal from Chuck Schumer, with Mike Rounds, to gather the government's UAP records in one national archive and open them to the public. Most of it did not become law. A reduced version went into the FY2024 National Defense Authorization Act, signed on 22 December 2023, as sections 1841 to 1843. They set up a government-wide UAP records collection at the National Archives and a review of those records against criteria under which release can be postponed [S1]. Journalists described the result as a heavily watered-down version of the bill; its power to take UAP-related material from private holders by eminent domain was dropped in conference [S2].

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[S1] "Implications of the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Amendment in the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)" | Lexology URL: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=15d9c2fc-9c48-420d-aad3-1165e71f1498 Claim: the NDAA sections, the records collection, the review and postponement criteria

[S2] "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act" | Wikipedia URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidentified_Anomalous_Phenomena_Disclosure_Act Claim: what was proposed, what was dropped, how it was described