Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said on Wednesday that “credible sources” have informed lawmakers that information on UFOs has been improperly kept away from Congress.
The top Democrat made the assertion during a colloquy with Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) in the Senate chamber, lamenting how significant parts of their Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Disclosure Act of 2023 got nixed during the conference process to reconcile the House and Senate versions of the next National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Hours later, the Senate passed the compromise version of the $886 billion defense policy bill.
“The United States government has gathered a great deal of information about UAPs over many decades but has refused to share it with the American people. That is wrong and additionally breeds mistrust,” Schumer said. “We have also been notified by multiple credible…