Policy Brief No. 5: Concrete Next Steps for UAP Disclosure

The policy brief recommends UAP disclosure across three categories: compelling records and data, intelligence analyses, and evidence tied to alleged crash-retrieval and reverse-engineering programs.

three categories of information

The authors argue that official UAP releases show the government holds more data than it had admitted, while high-quality evidence is still needed for skeptical scientists, lawmakers, and intelligence officials.

far more UAP data than it had admitted

The brief says low-quality file dumps are insufficient and calls for raw sensor data, including mensuration, range, kinematics, and high-resolution satellite imagery.

including mensuration, range, and kinematics

The authors recommend that the UAP Science Advisory Council be staffed, funded, independent, broadened in membership, and given access to UAP sensor data.

adequately staffed and funded

The policy brief argues that public releases have focused too much on the air domain and recommends releasing Space Fence and other records involving UAP in space, underwater, or entering or exiting the atmosphere.

air, space, and sea domains

The brief recommends scouring Solid State Phased Array Radar System data and says some of those radars may have been positioned to corroborate the November 2004 Tic Tac incident.

Solid State Phased Array Radar System

The document says UAP Task Force files should be inventoried and released, including a described button-like UAP image and a close pilot-filmed video.

UAPTF file shows a clear image

The authors recommend that ODNI and other intelligence elements requisition Intelligence Information Reports and attached media that reference UAP or similar terms.

all Intelligence Information Reports

The brief argues that raw data alone is not disclosure because the public and Congress need government analyses of UAP capabilities, origins, intentions, and threat implications.

Raw data alone is not disclosure.

The document says the government has not explained why UAP files stayed secret beyond ordinary declassification timelines or clarified a reported 1950s disinformation campaign involving false UAP documents.

well beyond the 25-year period

The authors recommend that the administration commission a National Intelligence Estimate on UAP that can be released to the public.

National Intelligence Estimate on UAP

The brief cites congressional testimony from witnesses who allege decades-long highly classified crash-retrieval and reverse-engineering programs, while noting that the government and contractors have not acknowledged such programs.

sworn testimony from credible whistleblowers

The authors recommend targeted UAP whistleblower protection legislation and a congressional special committee to investigate alleged crash-retrieval and reverse-engineering claims.

targeted UAP whistleblower protection legislation

The brief recommends releasing current and former government employees and contractors from nondisclosure agreements to the extent those agreements restrict UAP disclosures to Congress.

released from nondisclosure agreements

The authors say the administration should reassure potential witnesses that it will not prosecute, sue, or retaliate against them for going to Congress with UAP information.

would not seek prosecution or civil suit

The brief recommends that DOJ consider targeted immunity, non-prosecution agreements, or similar arrangements for witnesses who can reveal illegality related to alleged UAP programs.

strategically grant immunity

The conclusion frames the administration's UAP release effort as unprecedented and urges the President and Congress to collaborate on meaningful assessments and clearer evidence.

President and Congress to collaborate