Mike Rounds

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Mike Rounds is a U.S. senator from South Dakota and a principal Republican co-sponsor of the UAP Disclosure Act’s records-review framework.

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Mike Rounds is an American businessman and Republican politician who served as governor of South Dakota before entering the U.S. Senate in 2015. His committee work has included armed services, intelligence, and banking, placing him inside defense authorization and classified oversight processes.

Rounds built a business career in insurance before serving in the South Dakota legislature, two terms as governor, and then the U.S. Senate. His style is generally quieter and more procedural than that of many disclosure advocates. As a member of the Armed Services and Intelligence committees, he can work directly with the legal architecture of records, classification, and defense programs. That background made him an important Republican partner for Schumer, giving the disclosure framework bipartisan authorship from the outset.

Rounds joined Chuck Schumer in introducing the 2023 UAP Disclosure Act, a bipartisan proposal for a centralized records collection and independent review board. He continued to defend core transparency provisions after congressional negotiations removed much of the original structure. Rounds has framed the issue as lawful access to records and credible allegations rather than a personal declaration about aliens.

Rounds has continued pressing for a records process even after the original review-board proposal was weakened. His persistence gives the issue a legislative sponsor associated with governance and defense rather than media confrontation. In a coalition containing very different personalities, he supplies continuity, conservative credibility, and a focus on statutory language.

Rounds is central to UAP legislation and FOIA and transparency. His sponsorship matters because it gave the proposal senior Republican national-security support and linked disclosure to the Senate’s regular defense work. He is not a primary witness to recovered technology. His record is about designing a process capable of locating, reviewing, and releasing government material while protecting genuinely sensitive sources and capabilities.

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The UAP Disclosure Act was first introduced in 2023 by Senators Schumer and Rounds. It passed the Senate as an NDAA amendment, but during conference with the House, the strongest provisions were gutted: the independent review board, subpoena power, eminent domain authority. All gone. Only a National Archives record collection survived. It was reintroduced in 2024 and 2025. Neither year resulted in enactment. This year, Rep. Eric Burlison got his UAPDA amendment into the House version of the F...

The UAP Disclosure Act was first introduced in 2023 by Senators Schumer and Rounds. It passed the Senate as an NDAA amendment, but during conference with the House, the strongest provisions were gutted: the independent review board, subpoena power, eminent domain authority. All gone. Only a National Archives record collection survived. It was reintroduced in 2024 and 2025. Neither year resulted in enactment. This year, Rep. Eric Burlison got his UAPDA amendment into the House version of the F...

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Retired Rear Admiral Tim Gaulladet has been a major voice the past three years post-Grusch regarding Disclosure has been vital in this space. I haven't watched it in full yet, but his new interview with Jesse Michels just dropped, and in it he and Jesse go over the work of my friend Geoff Cruikshank regarding the Sept. 1962 Bluegill Triple Prime incident in which one of our earliest atmospheric nuclear tests brought down a live UAP. Tim and his wife...

Retired Rear Admiral Tim Gaulladet has been a major voice the past three years post-Grusch regarding Disclosure has been vital in this space. I haven't watched it in full yet, but his new interview with Jesse Michels just dropped, and in it he and Jesse go over the work of my friend Geoff Cruikshank regarding the Sept. 1962 Bluegill Triple Prime incident in which one of our earliest atmospheric nuclear tests brought down a live UAP. Tim and his wife...

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