[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1187 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1187

  To require the release to the public of all documents, reports, and 
  other records relating to unidentified anomalous phenomena, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 11, 2025

 Mr. Burchett introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require the release to the public of all documents, reports, and 
  other records relating to unidentified anomalous phenomena, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``UAP Transparency Act''.

SEC. 2. PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF CERTAIN INFORMATION RELATING TO 
              UNIDENTIFIED ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 270 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the President shall direct the head of each 
Federal department or agency in possession of documents, reports, or 
other records relating to unidentified anomalous phenomena to 
declassify and make available on a publicly available website of each 
such department or agency all such documents, reports, or other 
records.
    (b) Report.--Not later than 360 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act and quarterly thereafter, the President shall 
transmit to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability of the House 
of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs of the Senate a report detailing the progress 
toward implementing subsection (a) made by each Federal department and 
agency.
    (c) Definition.--In this section, the term ``unidentified anomalous 
phenomena'' has the meaning given such term in section 1683 of the 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 (50 U.S.C. 
3373).
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