Person
Chuck Schumer
Also known as Schumer, Senator Schumer
- U.S. Senator (D-NY); Senate Majority Leader (2021–2025)
Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, has represented New York in the U.S. Senate since 1999 and was Senate Majority Leader from 2021 to 2025. He is the most senior elected official to have written the possibility of non-human intelligence into proposed federal law.
In July 2023, days before David Grusch's House testimony, he and Republican Senator Mike Rounds introduced the UAP Disclosure Act as an amendment to the FY2024 defense bill. Modelled on the JFK Records Act, it declared that "credible evidence and testimony" showed undisclosed UAP records exist. It defined "non-human intelligence" and "technologies of unknown origin", proposed an independent, presidentially appointed review board to oversee "controlled disclosure", and would have let the government seize by eminent domain any recovered non-human technology or biological evidence held by private companies. Grusch says witnesses he brought to congressional staff helped give members the confidence to draft it.
The House, where Grusch says Reps. Mike Turner and Mike Rogers opposed it, removed the review board and eminent-domain provisions. The enacted FY2024 NDAA kept only a requirement for agencies to collect UAP records at the National Archives, which now holds them as Record Group 615. Schumer and Rounds reintroduced the full text in 2024. Pilots and officials including Ryan Graves and Tim Gallaudet have since pressed for the review board to be restored.
Sources: UAP Disclosure Act text (2023) · Congress.gov (S.Amdt. 2610, 2024) · FY2024 NDAA record · Wikipedia
Facts and claims
- documented Schumer and Sen. Mike Rounds introduced the UAP Disclosure Act in July 2023 as an amendment to the FY2024 NDAA, modelled on the JFK Records Act. Source: doc-uap-disclosure-act-2023.pdf
- documented The bill's findings declare that all federal UAP records “should carry a presumption of immediate disclosure”, and that legislation is needed “because credible evidence and testimony indicates that Federal Government unidentified anomalous phenomena records exist that have not been declassified”, in part because of Atomic Energy Act exemptions. Source: Schumer–Rounds UAP Disclosure Act (UAPDA)
- documented It defined “non-human intelligence” and “technologies of unknown origin”, would have created a presidentially appointed UAP Records Review Board, and directed the government to “exercise eminent domain over any and all recovered technologies of unknown origin and biological evidence of non-human intelligence” held by private entities. Source: Schumer–Rounds UAP Disclosure Act (UAPDA)
- documented The House stripped the review board and eminent-domain provisions; the enacted FY2024 NDAA kept a narrower requirement for agencies to collect UAP records at the National Archives. Schumer and Rounds reintroduced the full text in July 2024. Source: congress.gov (archived)
- claimed David Grusch says the act's review board and “controlled disclosure” were modelled on the JFK Records Act, and that Reps. Mike Turner and Mike Rogers were blocking it in the House; he says the people he brought to congressional staff helped give members the confidence to write it. — David Grusch Source: Joe Rogan Experience #2065 - David Grusch at 45:59
- claimed Hal Puthoff notes that the phrase “non-human intelligence” appears more than 20 times in the act. — Hal Puthoff Source: Joe Rogan Experience #2314: Hal Puthoff at 2:28:52
- claimed Ryan Graves calls the removal of the independent review board from the act his biggest disappointment, and Tim Gallaudet asked Congress under oath in November 2024 to enact it. — Ryan Graves Source: US fighter pilots witness UFO: Ryan Graves (American Alchemy, 2024) at 1:00:58
Connected files
Documents
- Schumer–Rounds UAP Disclosure Act (UAPDA) (sponsored)
Events
- FY2024 NDAA UAP records provisions (backed) — Its UAP provisions were a scaled-back version of the UAP Disclosure Act proposed by Schumer and Rounds
People
- Mike Rounds (co-sponsored with) — They introduced the UAP Disclosure Act in July 2023 as an amendment to the FY2024 NDAA
- David Grusch (statements by)
- Hal Puthoff (statements by)
- Ryan Graves (statements by)
Programs
- Legacy program (defined in bill) — His UAP Disclosure Act gave the term “legacy program” a legal definition
Concepts
- Non-human intelligence (defined in bill) — His UAP Disclosure Act defined “non-human intelligence” in proposed federal law
Videos
- Joe Rogan Experience #2065 - David Grusch (discussed in)
- Joe Rogan Experience #2314: Hal Puthoff (discussed in)