Dear Members of Congress:
As concerned citizens of the United States and partner nations, we earnestly petition for increased congressional oversight over unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP, and enactment of the UAP Disclosure Act in 2025.
The U.S. government now recognizes that UAP are a matter of national and even global significance. This policy evolution has been marked by several recent milestones; none of which, arguably, are more important than the UAP Disclosure Act spearheaded by Senator Mike Rounds (R-South Dakota) and former Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) in 2023. Co-sponsored by then-Senator (now Secretary of State and interim National Security Advisor) Marco Rubio (R-Florida) and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York) among others, with strong support from Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), this measure was a welcome instance of true legislative bipartisanship on a national security issue that may come to define the 21st-century.
Although this Act failed to pass the House in the year of first introduction, Congress has previously demonstrated courageous leadership on the UAP subject by successfully establishing requirements for military members to report incidents, by creating a joint program office to collate and analyze relevant data, and by affording enhanced protections to government personnel who testify to the existence of classified UAP
programs that lack congressional approval. Despite this laudatory progress, accountability remains elusive, and the enigma continues. As Senate-approved text of the Disclosure Act affirms, “credible evidence and testimony indicate that Federal Government unidentified anomalous phenomena records exist that have not been declassified,” and that the subject legislation is necessary to:
• Oversight. “Restore proper oversight over unidentified anomalous phenomena records by elected officials in both the executive and legislative branches,”
• Disclosure. “Create an enforceable, independent, and accountable process for the public disclosure of such [UAP] records,” and
• Science. “Afford complete and timely access to all knowledge gained by the Federal Government concerning unidentified anomalous phenomena in furtherance of comprehensive open scientific and technological research and development.”
Multiple undisputed facts highlight this necessity. Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act indicate that the CIA surreptitiously began debunking the subject as early as 1953. Sworn testimony from former high-ranking government officials, military personnel, and pilots based upon direct personal knowledge asserts that elements within the federal government are witting of the reality of UAP. Officially-released Pentagon video recorded objects that the Department of Defense has admitted are neither U.S. nor known foreign systems.
Modeled after the successful features of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act, the UAP Disclosure Act mandates that all government UAP records should carry a presumption of immediate disclosure, that each record shall be made available to the public no later than 25 years after its first creation, and that all UAP data should be eventually disclosed. A nine-person panel comprised of distinguished experts from various fields with no legacy UAP involvement are to be nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate to perform this independent review. Statutorily authorized access to all UAP records and materials, this panel would be chartered to develop national policy for UAP disclosure while adhering to a specific, detailed, and publicly accountable process.
The UAP problem is too complex and demonstrably too time consuming to be resolved without measures that empanel (whether via statute or executive order) a group empowered to centralize and adjudicate all UAP relevant facts, report directly to the President, and respond with alacrity and candor to Congress while remaining undistracted by other duties. We therefore urge Congress to revisit and enact the UAP Disclosure Act in its entirety this year. This historic legislation will advance scientific understanding, mitigate technological surprise, ensure government transparency, and restore Americans’ faith in their elected officials.