Senate Amendment Would Mandate Disclosure of UAP Records, Create Independent Review Board

In July Its stated purpose is to create an enforceable, independent, and accountable process for the public disclosure of all federal records related to UAP, technologies of unknown origin, and non-human intelligence. The amendment establishes a presumption of immediate disclosure for all such records, declaring that they should be preserved and centralized for historical and governmental purposes. To achieve this, it mandates the creation of a UAP Records Collection at the National Archives and Records Administration, where all records from across the federal government would be consolidated and made available to the public.

The legislation responds to findings that existing disclosure mechanisms, including the Freedom of Information Act and mandatory declassification review under Executive Order 13526, have proven inadequate. It specifically cites exemptions under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 and an overbroad interpretation of 'transclassified foreign nuclear information' as barriers that have prevented the release of records. By establishing…