WHAT THE ACT DOES
At its core, the UAP Disclosure Act directs the President to order each federal agency to identify, declassify, and release all records related to UAP — and to make them available on a public agency website rather than burying them behind individual FOIA requests. It builds on the records provisions Congress wrote into recent defense bills, which already require the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office to brief lawmakers and to surface intercepts dating back to 2004. The throughline is simple: move the record from "request it one page at a time" to "publish it."
JUNE 9, 2026 — THE CAPITOL PUSH
On June 9, 2026, David Grusch stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol alongside a bipartisan group of representatives — Eric Burlison, Jared Moskowitz, Anna Paulina Luna, and Tim Burchett — to press for full passage and enforcement of the Act. Investigative journalist Leslie Kean and documentary filmmaker James Fox helped host the event. It followed a presidential declassification directive earlier in 2026 that launched the PURSUE release, after which government-released UAP records drew over a billion views worldwide. The rally's message was that disclosure had started but was not finished. Two weeks later, at the June 25, 2026 Disclosure Forum in the Senate's Kennedy Caucus Room, Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) pledged to revive the Act — including whistleblower protections — keeping the legislation alive heading into the next session.
JULY 22, 2026 — ADOPTED BY THE HOUSE
Six weeks after that rally, the push produced its first floor victory. On July 22, 2026, the House adopted Rep. Eric Burlison's version of the UAP Disclosure Act as an amendment to H.R. 8800, the Fiscal Year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act, and passed the underlying defense bill 216–212 the same day. The adopted text would create a permanent UAP Records Collection at the National Archives, establish an independent nine-member Records Review Board confirmed by the Senate and armed with subpoena authority, extend disclosure obligations to government contractors, and set a presumption that UAP records are public in full within 25 years of creation unless the President certifies a specific overriding harm. It is the first time the full framework has cleared a floor vote in either chamber — a Senate version passed in 2023 but had its review board and eminent-domain provisions stripped in conference, and Burlison's 2025 attempt never reached a vote. The bill now goes to the Senate, and none of it is law until a final compromise is signed. Full breakdown of the House vote and what the amendment would do →
WHERE THE RECORD LIVES
The Act's whole point is a readable public record — and that record is PURSUE, published in tranches at war.gov. War.gov posts the raw files; Umbra indexes every release by agency, type, date, and location and renders it natively on iPhone, with a push the moment a new tranche drops. As the Act forces more out into the open, Umbra is where you read it.
> As the Act forces the files open, read every PURSUE tranche on your iPhone.
