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U.S. Senators Propose Legislation to Declassify UFO Documents and Exercise Eminent Domain Over Craft
Senators move to require release of US government UFO records [reuters.com]
The Senate in the coming days is expected to consider a bipartisan measure that would compel the U.S. government to publicly release records relating to possible UFO sightings after decades of stonewalling.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, has teamed up with Senator Mike Rounds, a Republican, in leading an effort to force the disclosure of information relating to what the government officially calls "unidentified anomalous phenomena," or UAPs. Their 64-page proposal is modeled after a 1992 U.S. law spelling out the handling of records related to the 1963 assassination of President John Kennedy.
They plan to offer the measure as an amendment to sweeping legislation moving through Congress that would authorize U.S. defense funding for the fiscal year beginning on Oct. 1.
[...] It also establishes that the federal government would have "eminent domain" over any recovered technologies of unknown origin and any biological evidence of "non-human intelligence" that may be controlled by private individuals or entities.
Also at NewsNation [newsnationnow.com]:
Schumer's announcement comes after whistleblower David Grusch [newsnationnow.com], a former member of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, told NewsNation about his allegations that government officials are retrieving extraterrestrial, nonhuman spacecraft.
And The New York Times [nytimes.com]:
Support in the House is also likely. On Wednesday, the chamber included a narrower measure [house.gov] in its version of the annual defense bill that would push the Pentagon to release documents about unidentified aerial phenomena.
[...] President Biden would appoint the nine-person review board, subject to Senate approval. Senate staff members say the intent is to select a group of people who would push for disclosure while protecting sensitive intelligence collection methods.
