On July 11, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) reintroduced the most extraordinary legislation in American history. The Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act alleges that shadowy elements of the U.S. government have surreptitiously operated “legacy programs” that retrieve and seek to reverse-engineer UFOs of “unknown” or “non-human” origin.

As a remedy, the Disclosure Act would establish a blue-ribbon review board to gradually and strategically release long-withheld UFO-related records publicly via a “controlled disclosure campaign.”

Schumer and Rounds’s reintroduction of the legislation is particularly notable because it was largely gutted, at the request of the Pentagon’s UFO office, by House lawmakers last December. The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) — established in 2022 — also issued repeated categorical denials of the stunning UFO-related activities alleged in the Disclosure Act.

In a lengthy, error-laden report released in March, for example, the office stated that it “found no empirical evidence that the [U.S. government] and private companies have been reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology.”

The reintroduction of the Disclosure Act, in full, is thus a stunning double rebuke of AARO. Notably, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), who led the charge to establish the office, is a cosponsor of the legislation.

Moreover, the Senate Intelligence Committee appears set to require the Government Accountability Office, Congress’s investigative watchdog, to conduct a review of AARO. In other words, key members of Congress — including the senator who established it........

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