A House Amendment Would Subpoena Every Federal UAP Record and Put Them Online in 30 Days

Rep. Eric Burlison of Missouri filed a sweeping amendment to the FY2027 defense bill that would force every federal agency to hand over its UAP records to the National Archives. The amendment has been submitted to the House Rules Committee for consideration.

Formally submitted June 18 and modeled on the JFK assassination records declassification process, the amendment would establish a UAP Records Collection at the National Archives, open to public inspection within 30 days and digitally available within 180. A presidentially appointed, Senate-confirmed nine-member review board would oversee it, with authority to subpoena agencies and compel testimony from whistleblowers. Federal agencies would face a hard 300-day deadline to identify and organize their records. Any record withheld beyond 25 years would require a presidential certification naming a specific, grave threat to national security. Not a vague one. A named, documented one.

The amendment defines "non-human intelligence" as "any sentient intelligent non-human lifeform regardless of nature or ultimate origin." Those are not aspirational words. They are operative legal terms. The amendment also extends the government's power of eminent domain to cover recovered technologies of unknown origin and biological evidence of non-human intelligence held by private individuals or entities. The government could take them.

The infrastructure and programs described in this amendment are real and documented. The question of whether anyone with classification authority wants them enforced remains, as always, another matter entirely.

Read the full story at House Committee on Rules, June 18, 2026

Hot Take: The eminent domain provision is the clause everyone skips past. Congress just wrote into a proposed law that the government can seize biological evidence of non-human intelligence from private citizens, which is not a hypothetical about the future but an assumption that the material already exists and someone is sitting on it.