Thread by @ddeanjohnson

CONGRESS UPDATE:
U.S. SENATE PASSES MULTIPLE
UAP/UFO MEASURES

1) The U.S. Senate today (July 27, 2023) passed a National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), 86-11, that contains multiple and far-reaching provisions related to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP/UFOs). https://t.co/R5VHaBmtS1twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

2) The Senate added the entire Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA) to the FY 2024 NDAA, including UAP-related provisions earlier approved by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (with some revisions).

3) After approving the final NDAA-IAA package under the bill number H.R. 2670, the Senate sent it to a conference committee with the House of Representatives. There was only one minor UAP-related provision in the NDAA version that the House passed on July 14.

4) Included in the Senate-passed package is the Schumer-Rounds "UAP Disclosure Act," to establish an agency to gather UAP records from throughout the government, with a "presumption of immediate disclosure,"

5) but with such delays and exceptions as a presidentially appointed Review Board and the President would determine.
democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press…

6) The Schumer-Rounds legislation also states, "The
Federal Government shall exercise eminent domain [ownership] over any and all recovered technologies of unknown origin and biological evidence of non-human intelligence that may be controlled by private persons or entities..."

7) The Senate-passed NDAA-IAA also contains two overlapping versions of a Gillibrand-Rubio proposal. These provisions seek to identify any UAP-related technology or information that may be hidden in government-linked programs that have not been properly reported to Congress.

8) These provisions also would cut off funding for non-reported UAP-related programs. I discussed the Gillibrand-Rubio provision in some detail in an article published on June 24, but since then there have been some modifications in the language.
douglasjohnson.ghost.io/senate-intelli…

9) The Senate-passed bill also carries an increase of $27 million for the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), although the total authorized funding level remains classified. Sen. Kirstin Gillibrand (D-NY) sponsored this funding boost in the Armed Services Committee.

10) The Intelligence Authorization Act part of the package contains new protections for whistleblowers from the Intelligence Community. These new provisions were modified shortly before final action by the Senate, and will require further analysis.

11) A provision in the Armed Services Committee report on the NDAA requires an evaluation of NORAD "aerospace warning and control mission and procedures" by the Government Accountability Office, an arm of Congress, as I discussed in an earlier thread.

https://twitter.com/ddeanjohnson/status/1681031858845253633?s=20

12) Once a House-Senate conference committee produces a final agreed-on version of the NDAA-IAA, after many weeks, it must receive final approval from the House and then the Senate, before being sent to the President. Congress has passed an NDAA for the past 62 straight years.

13) I intend to write a detailed article on the Senate-passed UAP provisions in the not-distant future. Some of these provisions were described in my June 24 article, linked above, but on some points that article is now out of date.