Schumer leads Senate push to reveal feds’ UFO secrets

The truth is out there — and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer wants to make it public.

The New York Democrat this week introduced new legislation that would force the federal government to open up its vaults on UFOs, in response to widespread allegations that defense and other officials have held on to secret evidence that interplanetary aliens have visited our planet.

“For decades, many Americans have been fascinated by objects mysterious and unexplained and it’s long past time they get some answers,” Schumer said Friday. “The American public has a right to learn about technologies of unknown origins, non-human intelligence, and unexplainable phenomena.”

The bill — dubbed the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Disclosure Act of 2023, to comply with the feds’ preferred term for UFOs — was added with bipartisan support as an amendment to the Senate’s version of its annual defense appropriations package.

A similar UFO declassification measure was included in the House’s version of the defense appropriations bill that it passed on Friday — making it almost a certainty that a fresh flow of UFO-related documents and data will soon emerge from government archives.

Schumer’s bill, which was co-sponsored by South Dakota Republican Sen. Mike Rounds and other senators from both parties, would create a new UAP Records Collection under the purview of the National Archives and Records Administration.

All government offices will be ordered to search their archives for UFO-related information and submit it to the collection under a “presumption of immediate disclosure,” the bill reads.

A special review board would have to sign off if an agency wants to keep any data classified.

The bill is modeled on the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, which has uncovered thousands of documents related to the slain president’s death and the investigations that followed it.

“There is a lot we still don’t know about these UAPs and that is a big problem,” said Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, one of the measure’s GOP sponsors. “I hope [the new bill] will spur further cooperation from the executive branch.”

Last month, Rubio claimed that “serious” US government officials have “first-hand knowledge” of a top-secret UFO crash-retrieval program run by the Pentagon — but officials have repeatedly insisted that only a tiny fraction of the hundreds of UFO sightings reported over the past three decades were actually unexplained.