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The Senate leader who co-wrote the UAP Disclosure Act. 6 events, newest first.
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Government15 Dec 2024
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer asked the Department of Homeland Security to deploy a recently declassified radio-wave tracking system to identify drones reported over New York and New Jersey and their operators, noting state and local police lacked authority to track them.
Photo: U.S. Senate Photographic Studio/Jeff McEvoy, Public domain
Government11 Dec 2024
Senators Andy Kim, Cory Booker, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand wrote to DHS, the FBI and the FAA asking for an immediate briefing on how they were working with police to identify the source of night drone sightings over New Jersey and New York.
Photo: Chetsford, Public domain
GovernmentDec 2024
For the second year running, the Schumer-Rounds UAP Disclosure Act, including its independent review board, failed to make it into the final National Defense Authorization Act, reported The Debrief in December 2024.
Photo: The White House, Public domain
Government22 Dec 2023
The FY2024 defense bill, signed Dec. 22, 2023, kept a reduced version of the Schumer-Rounds UAP Disclosure Act, ordering agencies to send UAP records to a new National Archives collection. Conferees dropped the proposed independent review board and the push to obtain privately held material.
Photo: David Samuel, User:Hellodavey1902, CC BY-SA 3.0
Government13 Dec 2023
In a Senate floor colloquy, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Mike Rounds criticized House negotiators for dropping their proposed independent UAP records review board from the defense bill, warning that declassification would stay with the agencies that had long withheld the records.
Photo: U.S. Senate Photographic Studio/Jeff McEvoy, Public domain
Government13 Jul 2023
Senators Chuck Schumer and Mike Rounds filed the UAP Disclosure Act as an amendment to the Senate defense authorization bill. Modeled on the JFK records law, it would have created a UAP records collection at the National Archives and an independent review board.
Photo: Sen. Chuck Schumer and Sen. Mike Rounds, United States Senate, Public domain
