UAP Policy
TopicThemeUAP Policy
TopicThemeThe U.S. laws, executive directives and offices that govern how UAP reports and records are collected, analyzed, protected and released, from AARO to the 2026 PURSUE program.
The U.S. laws, executive directives and offices that govern how UAP reports and records are collected, analyzed, protected and released, from AARO to the 2026 PURSUE program.
UAP policy in the United States is the framework of statutes, executive actions and agency structures that governs how the government collects, analyzes, protects and releases information on unidentified anomalous phenomena. Most of it has been written into annual defense and intelligence authorization acts, carried out by the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office and the National Archives, and, since 2026, driven increasingly by White House directives. The policy assigns duties and procedures; it does not settle what any reported phenomenon is.
The modern framework grew quickly after 2020. The Navy-led UAP Task Force was approved that August, and a June 2021 intelligence assessment could not explain 143 of 144 reports. After an interim group, AARO took over in July 2022, with a mandate Congress wrote into the fiscal 2022 and 2023 defense acts. In July 2023 Senators Chuck Schumer and Mike Rounds introduced the UAP Disclosure Act with an independent review board and eminent-domain authority over recovered technology and "biological evidence of non-human intelligence." The fiscal 2024 act signed that December created a UAP Records Collection at the National Archives but dropped the board and the eminent-domain provision.
2026 brought the largest executive-branch shift. After President Donald Trump said on February 19 that he would direct agencies to release files on alien life, UAP and UFOs, the Department of War launched PURSUE, the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, on May 8 and issued six tranches of files by September 18. By late July the President had directed the department and the intelligence community to waive prior nondisclosure agreements for people with UAP information; Representative Eric Burlison questioned whether it covered testimony to Congress. On July 22 the House adopted Burlison's version of the UAP Disclosure Act as an amendment to the fiscal 2027 defense bill, which would create a Senate-confirmed review board with subpoena power and extend disclosure duties to contractors; the bill then moved to the Senate.
Official findings remain cautious. AARO's 2024 historical report found no empirical evidence that the government or industry had possessed extraterrestrial technology, and the Pentagon said the first PURSUE release did not confirm extraterrestrial life. Advocates say the releases fall short: the Disclosure Foundation has called for a mandated National Intelligence Estimate on UAP, and whistleblower Matthew Brown has asked for presidential immunity to say more about the Immaculate Constellation program he described in 2025. The final fiscal 2027 defense law will show whether the executive releases of 2026 gain a permanent statutory review process.
[Retweeted] Durham University professor and the Chair in Global Law and SETI Policy Michael Bohlander joins Dr. Peter Skafish of the Sol Foundation for a wide-ranging discussion of the legal questions surrounding UAP. They examine why classified claims remain so difficult to verify publicly, how secrecy can create constitutional and evidentiary problems, and why courts offer a different framework for evaluating witness testimony than the natural sciences. Most interestingly, Bohlander shares...
All Government-Funded UAP Records Belong in the UAP Records Collection at the National Archives - Disclosure Foundation Policy Brief
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[Retweeted] 🧵 We have released a new policy brief: Policy Brief No. 7 - All Government-Funded UAP Records Belong in the UAP Records Collection at the National Archives. The policy brief is authored by Christopher Mellon (@ChrisKMellon), Jordan Flowers (@jordanflowers) and Hunt Willis. The new policy brief argues that the FY 2024 NDAA requires the National Archives’ UAP Records Collection to include not only agency records, but also government-provided and government-funded records, including...
[Retweeted] 2/ The new policy brief is focused on making the following three key points: 1. FFRDCs are government-funded. These entities receive the majority of their financial support from the federal government and operate through long-term relationships with sponsoring agencies. 2. The FY 2024 NDAA reaches beyond ordinary “agency records.” Congress specifically required the UAP Records Collection to include “Government-funded” records, including records created outside the federal governme...
[Retweeted] 🧵 We have released a new policy brief: Policy Brief No. 7 - All Government-Funded UAP Records Belong in the UAP Records Collection at the National Archives. The policy brief is authored by Christopher Mellon (@ChrisKMellon), Jordan Flowers (@jordanflowers) and Hunt Willis. The new policy brief argues that the FY 2024 NDAA requires the National Archives’ UAP Records Collection to include not only agency records, but also government-provided and government-funded records, including...
[Retweeted] 🧵 We have released a new policy brief: Policy Brief No. 7 - All Government-Funded UAP Records Belong in the UAP Records Collection at the National Archives. The policy brief is authored by Christopher Mellon (@ChrisKMellon), Jordan Flowers (@jordanflowers) and Hunt Willis. The new policy brief argues that the FY 2024 NDAA requires the National Archives’ UAP Records Collection to include not only agency records, but also government-provided and government-funded records, including...
In my judgment, UFO phenomena threaten all terrestrial elites but not the Earth's people. Until recently the media, academia, military, and politicians opposed any reasonable discussion of this subject because they were committed to defending the status quo’s de facto policy of ridicule and denial. This regimen has been referred to as the “UFO truth embargo” and has weakened considerably since December 2017. Recently Congress has been informed of clandestine UFO retrieval and reverse engineer...
In my judgment, UFO phenomena threaten all terrestrial elites but not the Earth's people. Until recently the media, academia, military, and politicians opposed any reasonable discussion of this subject because they were committed to defending the status quo’s de facto policy of ridicule and denial. This regimen has been referred to as the “UFO truth embargo” and has weakened considerably since December 2017. Recently Congress has been informed of clandestine UFO retrieval and reverse engineer...
Matthew Brown on UFO's: “Some extremely wealthy families do and have known about it probably longer than there has been a legacy program.” 👽🛸 "The archaeological angle makes it plausible some of these families already hold small collections of NHI artifacts" In his interview with Jesse Michels, the former Pentagon policy advisor and Immaculate Constellation whistleblower was asked what would happen if someone from a super elite family, a proverbial Rothschild or similar, were given truth se...
