Don’t Let Them Gut Disclosure Again

We are closer to real government disclosure on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena than we have ever been, and the next few weeks will decide whether that progress holds or slips away. For the first time in our history, a genuine Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act (UAPDA) is part of the House-passed National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the single bill Congress must pass every year. That is an extraordinary milestone. It is also a moment of real jeopardy.

What the UAPDA Would Do

The UAPDA is modeled on the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act, the 1990s law that finally pried loose decades of hidden government files. It takes that proven framework and applies it to UAP. Specifically, it would:

• Gather the government’s UAP records into a single collection at the National Archives;
• Create a presumption of disclosure, meaning those records are released to the public unless the government can demonstrate specific, identifiable harm;
• Establish an independent, Senate-confirmed review board with subpoena power to compel records and testimony; and
• Reach records held by defense contractors, so that the truth cannot be hidden inside private contracts.

This is not reckless disclosure. It is responsible disclosure, with independent oversight and governance built in.

How We Got Here

For years, advocates, witnesses, and a determined handful of lawmakers have pressed for a lawful path to the truth. That work reached a turning point on July 22, 2026, when Representative Eric Burlison (R-MO) won adoption of the UAPDA into the House version of the FY2027 NDAA, after months of procedural resistance. For the first time, a meaningful disclosure measure is riding on the one piece of legislation Congress cannot skip.

We Have Been Here Before

We know how this story can end, because we have lived it. In 2023, Senators Chuck Schumer and Mike Rounds wrote a strong, bipartisan UAP Disclosure Act and passed it through the Senate as part of that year’s defense bill. The public demand was overwhelming. Then, behind closed doors in the conference committee where the House and Senate reconcile their bills, its heart was cut out. Before the bill became law, the independent review board and the recovered-materials provisions were stripped, with no recorded vote and no public debate. What survived was a hollow shell of what the public had been promised.

The Danger Right Now

Today the UAPDA faces the same gauntlet. The House and Senate are reconciling their versions of the FY2027 NDAA behind closed doors, and leadership from the same Armed Services and Intelligence Committees that have guarded these secrets for most of a century runs that conference. In conference, leadership can weaken provisions or quietly delete them with no recorded vote and no public accountability. A single closed meeting could erase everything Representative Burlison has achieved, exactly as happened in 2023.

Why This Matters

For roughly eighty years, questions about UAP have been met with secrecy, deflection, and in some cases active deception. The UAPDA offers something different: a lawful, orderly, and accountable process for bringing the facts into the open, with safeguards for genuine national security and independent review to prevent abuse. The public deserves the truth, and this is the best chance in a generation to secure it.

What You Can Do

Only an open, organized, and undeniable public voice has ever beaten a closed door. Over the next few weeks, that voice has to reach the thirteen offices that will decide this: congressional leadership and the chairs and ranking members of the House and Senate Armed Services and Intelligence Committees. We are asking you to take two actions. Together they take only a few minutes, and together they are far more powerful than either one alone.

Action One: Send the email. We have prepared a message to all thirteen offices. One click sends it to every one of them.

Action Two: Make the calls. Our call tool connects you to those same offices with a short script you can read word for word. Staff log calls, and they carry more weight than almost any other form of contact. If you do only one thing today, call. If you can, please do both.

The message is the same in both: keep Representative Burlison’s UAPDA in the final FY2027 NDAA, fully intact, with not a single provision stripped, and oppose any effort to weaken it in negotiations.

The Choice in Front of Us

Moments like this are rare, and they do not wait. In 2023, the disclosure we were promised was dismantled in a room the public was not allowed to enter. This time, let us make the voice outside that room impossible to ignore. Send the email. Make the calls. Then share this with one person who has ever said they care about this issue.

The difference between genuine disclosure and another hollow promise may come down to how many of us refuse to look away in the next few weeks.