On February 6, 2024, two top officials of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) sent a memo to records managers at federal agencies, instructing them to begin identifying records related to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), as required by provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act enacted December 13, 2023 (Public Law 118-31). The provision that was enacted was a greatly narrowed revision of the Schumer-Rounds UAP Disclosure Act that the Senate had approved in July 2023.
The new law requires NARA to assemble from throughout government all records “relating to unidentified anomalous phenomena, technologies of unknown origin, and nonhuman intelligence (or equivalent subjects by any other name with the specific and sole exclusion of temporarily non-attributed objects)…”
However, I note here that federal law defines only one of those four key terms, “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” and even that definition was crafted for a different purpose.
I asked Laurence Brewer, Chief Records Officer for the U.S. Government and the lead signer of the February 6 memo, “Will the forthcoming ‘finding aid’ contain explicit definitions for all four terms, and if so, to what sources will NARA look in developing those definitions?” Mr. Brewer’s response: “More information is forthcoming related to the details of the guidance and other requirements.”
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