Federal agencies have until October 20 to provide every document, audio and video they have on UFOs to the U.S. government for distribution to the public.
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) issued the instructions this month – putting into practice the UFO Disclosure Amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2024, which was signed into law last December.
The guidelines reveal the latest strategy to force reluctant parts of the US military and intelligence community to reveal everything they know about the mysterious aerial events, now called Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP).
The move comes two months after the Pentagon’s UFO Bureau released a controversial report to Congress, claiming it had found “no verifiable evidence that the U.S. government or private industry has ever had access to alien technology.”
The US National Archives is demanding all UFO data by October 20, 2024. Above, the US Air Force once made public this image of a 1972 Viking spacecraft awaiting recovery at the White Sands Missile Range near Roswell, to investigate the Roswell UFO crash of 1947. years ago
Above, “Archives II,” the National Archives facility in College Park, Maryland, which houses the most contemporary government documents available to scholars and the public. The newly requested UFO data will be available both here and online via a digital database
NARA archivists have issued guidelines requiring all UFO or UAP documents to be delivered in electronic formats with detailed metadata for inclusion in a new searchable database to be made available to the public.
The database will contain classified material that NARA will store independently, keeping the data secure until it can be released to the public.
NARA’s guidelines make clear that all government agencies are required to label their documents with each file’s “official security status” and any “special controls,” including “special compartmentalized information” (SCI) and “special access programs” (SAP).
Every federal agency, including branches of the U.S. military and intelligence community such as the CIA, is also required to explain to NARA and the public why certain UFO documents qualify as “exempt” from disclosure under the new law.
‘If partially released or completely withheld’, the NARA Advisory Placement Guideline stated, “state the specific grounds for delay in section 1843 of the NDAA.”
The archives added that these agencies must adhere to these provisions in the NDAA’s new UFO disclosure amendment of 2024, or to the provisions “set forth in Executive Order 13526.’
The order, which was put into effect by President Barack Obama in 2009, states that all classified material older than 25 years will be “automatically declassified.”
In the late 1990s, the US Air Force also pointed to this aeroshell from a 1967 NASA Voyager-Mars spacecraft (above) as an explanation for the 1947 Roswell UFO crash, twenty years earlier.
Members of both houses of Congress expressed frustration over the watered-down nature of the UFO disclosure amendment signed into law with the 2024 NDAA.
‘We have been scammed. We got completely snowed under. They took every piece out of it,” said Rep. Tim Burchett, one of the lawmakers behind the bill.
And, unconvinced by the Pentagon’s latest UFO report last March, members of the House Oversight Committee in Congress recently said they are preparing two new public hearings on UFOs to keep up the pressure.
“We don’t have the facts yet,” as Republican Congressman Glenn Grothman explained to the reporter Ask a Pol late last month.
One of these hearings will focus on undersea cases of unknown vessels known as Unidentified Submerged Objects (USOs), according to Representative Anna Paulina Luna.
‘We are working on doing something with USO’ Rep. Luna said in May ‘we are talking to a number of people.’