Important parts of the neutered UAPDA


https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20231211/FY24%20NDAA%20Conference%20Report%20-%20%20FINAL.pdf

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None of the funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be obligated or expended in support of any activities involving unidentified anomalous phenomena protected under any form of special access or restricted access limitations unless the secretary of Defense has provided the details of the activity to the appropriate congressional committees and congressional leadership,

independent research and development funding relating to unidentified anomalous phenomena shall not be allowable as indirect expenses for purposes of contracts covered by such instruction, unless such material and information is made available the appropriate congressional committees and congressional leadership.

(C) RECORDS CREATED BY NON -FEDERAL PERSONS OR ENTITIES .—No unidentified anomalous phenomena record created by a person or entity outside the Federal Government (excluding names or identities consistent with the requirements of section 1843) shall be withheld redacted, postponed for public disclosure, or reclassified.

(F)organize and make available to the heads of Government offices other than the Government office with custody…the identification, review, and transmission of all records that most unambiguously and definitively(Humanity updated note, doesn’t this mean they can just claim ignorance and not release it?) pertain to unidentified anomalous phenomena, technologies of unknown origin, and non-human intelligence

Not later than 45 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Archivist, in consultation with the heads of such Government offices as the Archivist considers appropriate, shall prepare and make available to all Government offices a standard form of identification, or finding aid, for use with each unidentified anomalous phenomena record subject to review

The archivist shall ensure the creation of a uniform system for cataloging and finding every unidentified anomalous phenomena record subject to review under this subtitle where ever and how ever stored in hardcopy (physical), softcopy (electronic), or digitized data format.

Each head of a Government office shall transmit to the Archivist, and, as soon as possible, make available to the public, all unidentified anomalous phenomena records of the Government office that can be publicly disclosed

transmit to the Archivist upon approval for postponement by the original classification authority upon completion of other action authorized by this subtitle(HU note: I guess the gatekeepers can just force the archivist to classify everything) , all unidentified anomalous phenomena records of the Government office the public disclosure of which has been postponed, in whole or in part, under the standards of this subtitle, to become part of the protected, yet-to-be disclosed, or classified portion of the Collection. All postponed or redacted records shall be reviewed periodically by the originating agency and the Archivist

All postponed unidentified anomalous phenomena records determined to require continued postponement shall require an unclassified written description of the reason for such continued postponement

This part is important:

D) DEADLINE FOR FULL DISCLOSURE. Each unidentified anomalous phenomena record shall be publicly disclosed in full, and available in the Collection, not later than the date that is 25 years after the date of the first creation of the record by the originating body, unless the President certifies that (i)continued postponement is made necessary by an identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations,law enforcement, or conduct of foreign relations; and12

(ii) the identifiable harm is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in disclosure

(b) WITHDRAWAL OF RECORDS .—Senior Agency Officials designated in accordance with Executive Order 13526 or any successor Orders may withdraw records in the Collection that are determined to be both not related to unidentified anomalous phenomena and properly classified. The Senior Agency Official must notify the congressional leadership and the oversight committees of Congress, as identified in section 1841(e), by not later than 60 days before each record is withdrawn

In the event that the disclosure of unidentified anomalous phenomena records or particular information in unidentified anomalous phenomena records to the public is postponed by an Executive agency, the head of the Executive agency shall notify congressional leadership and the oversight committees of Congress, as identified in section 1841(e), within 15 days of such decision with a reason for the postponement of disclosure

Key takeaways:

No funding is to be allocated to UAP related programs or contractors if the program is under a special access or restricted limitations After reading the entire thing it appears that the civilian review board has been replaced by the “archivist”. I don’t believe the documentation goes over who this person is but Ill double check. All records of UAP are to be sent to the archivist for disclosure. There are 3 types of postponed documents: protected, yet-to-be disclosed, or classified All documents are supposed to be disclosed as soon as possible Documents related to UAP that are postponed must have a declassified description for why they’re not being disclosed just yet Documents related to UAP that were created 25 years or earlier are subject for immediate disclosure unless the president steps in If a record is to be withdrawn from the collection the withdrawing body must notify congressional leaders 60 days beforehand Documents being postponed for disclosure to the public must have a reason given to the congress within 15 days

Conclusion

This new language is a big step back from what was in the original language. Eminent domain and the civilian review board has been axed. The archivist will most likely be another crony of the DOD/MIC that will curtail efforts to release these documents. We’ll have to wait and see what comes out but I’m left disheartened.

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