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Safe Airspace for Americans Act

U.S. House of Representatives · 2025-09-09 · 8 pages · text from the file's own layer

H.R. 5231, the Safe Airspace for Americans Act, was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on September 9, 2025 by Mr. Garcia of California with three cosponsors. The bill would require the FAA Administrator to set up procedures for civilian aviation personnel to report, archive and investigate unidentified anomalous phenomena incidents and to share them with the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office. It also protects reporters' medical and airmen certificates, bars reprisals, and defines UAP and transmedium objects.

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management system and radar data, that could be1
used to aid in such investigations; and2
(5) evaluate the threat that such incidents3
present to the safety of the national airspace system.4
(b) COORDINATION.—In carrying out the require-5
ments of this section, the Administrator shall coordinate6
with the heads of other departments and agencies of the7
Federal Government, as appropriate, including the Sec-8
retary of Defense, the Director of National Intelligence,9
the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space10
Administration, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the11
Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric12
Administration, the Director of the National Science13
Foundation, and the Secretary of Energy.14
(c) ALL-DOMAIN ANOMALY RESOLUTION OFFICE.—15
The Administrator shall share the reports and all incident16
archived information and data submitted under this sec-17
tion with the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office of the18
Department of Defense.19
(d) PROHIBITION AGAINST USE OF REPORTS FOR20
ENFORCEMENT PURPOSES.—The Administrator may not21
use reports submitted under this section (or information22
derived therefrom) in any enforcement action except infor-23
mation concerning accidents or criminal offenses.24
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