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UAP Transparency Act

U.S. House of Representatives · 2024-05-16 · 2 pages · text from the file's own layer

H.R. 8424, the UAP Transparency Act, was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on May 16, 2024, by Mr. Burchett with Mr. Moskowitz, Mrs. Luna and Mr. Burlison, and referred to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability. The bill would require the President, within 270 days of enactment, to direct every federal agency holding records on unidentified anomalous phenomena to declassify them and post them on a public website. It would also require quarterly progress reports to House and Senate committees.

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SEC. 2. PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF CERTAIN INFORMATION1
RELATING TO UNIDENTIFIED ANOMALOUS2
PHENOMENA.3
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 270 days after the4
date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall di-5
rect the head of each Federal department or agency in6
possession of documents, reports, or other records relating7
to unidentified anomalous phenomena to declassify and8
make available on a publicly available website of each such9
department or agency all such documents, reports, or10
other records.11
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 360 days after the date12
of the enactment of this Act and quarterly thereafter, the13
President shall transmit to the Committee on Oversight14
and Accountability of the House of Representatives and15
the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental16
Affairs of the Senate a report detailing the progress to-17
ward implementing subsection (a) made by each Federal18
department and agency.19
(c) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘uniden-20
tified anomalous phenomena’’ has the meaning given such21
term in section 1683 of the National Defense Authoriza-22
tion Act for Fiscal Year 2022 (50 U.S.C. 3373).23
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