Chuck Schumer Is Getting Back on His UFO Bullshit

Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Republican Senator Mike Rounds will submit their Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act (UAPDA) to the floor of the United States Congress again “this week,” according to Sen. Rounds at Thursday’s Disclosure Forum 2026. Rounds said that “Leader Schumer and I will again offer this vital legislation as an amendment to this year’s NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act), and we hope to finally bring it over the finish line.” If you have never read this “vital” piece of legislation before, buckle up. Here are just a couple of excerpts from the craziest bill I have ever read.

“The Federal Government shall exercise eminent domain 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 in the interests of the public good.”

Translation: we’re taking Lockheed Martin’s UFOs. Here’s another fun one that also sounds like it’s straight out of Disclosure Day. 

“The term ‘legacy program’ means all Federal, State, and local government, commercial industry, academic, and private sector endeavors to collect, exploit, or reverse engineer technologies of unknown origin or examine biological evidence of living or deceased non-human intelligence that pre-dates the date of the enactment of this Act.”

I cannot stress enough that the Senate Minority Leader wants all of these mind-bending words and more to become law, and has for three years and counting.

It’s easy to dismiss these very real attempts to pass a bill as just some X-Files scripts left on the cutting room floor, but Schumer and Rounds are not just some rando guys here despite being a couple of shlubs in every other political realm. Chuck Schumer is in the Gang of Eight, the select few congresspeople who get to peer behind the curtain of the national security state’s most classified programs and actions. That’s the guy repeatedly trying to pass a bill where the phrase “non-human” appears 22 times.

And Rounds is privy to many state secrets too. He sits on both the Senate Intelligence and Armed Services Committees, getting practically the whole constellation of national security state briefings. Kirsten Gillibrand, another cursed political actor, has co-sponsored this bill in the past, and she also is on the Armed Services Committee and sits on the Strategic Forces and Emerging Threats subcommittees with Rounds. 

Martin Heinrich has co-sponsored the UAPDA in the past too, and he is a Senior full member of the Senate Intelligence Committee and the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, which has Department of Energy National Laboratory oversight where a lot of UFO secrets are alleged to be held. Republican Senator Todd Young has also signed on to the UAPDA in the past, and he sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee as well. Marco Rubio, now known for aiding Elon Musk’s destruction of USAID and mass murder across the Global South while eating shit for dear leader on the global stage, once was Vice Chairman of the Intelligence Committee and his name is on the 2023 UAPDA.

I’m not saying the bill these people endorse is a factual depiction of reality, because the main thing I’ve learned digging into this is that no one credible claims to know all that is really going on here. It’s just that a lot of people over the decades have said there is some sort of UFO cover-up, and if there was a UFO cover-up, these are the kinds of people in Congress who might know something about it, and they’re repeatedly trying to pass a bill that very explicitly attempts to uncover a UFO cover-up. Their persistence has captured my attention.

Schumer and Rounds initially submitted the UAPDA as an NDAA amendment in 2023 and it failed to pass, did it again in 2024 when I got hooked into this crazy world, then submitted it again in 2025 with the same batshit crazy text as the 2024 and 2023 versions that failed to pass too. There is no word yet on whether the 2026 bill will be the same as the previous versions, but given how Rounds characterized this effort at the Disclosure Forum, I would be shocked if it was meaningfully different in scope and direction. This bill has been communicated as an expression of Congress’ best guess of what it can and should do to help pry these secrets out from behind closed doors.

A lot of knee-jerk debunkers will dismiss the UAPDA as poppycock. Utter gobbeldygook. Perfidious three-letter-agency nonsense. The fever dreams of a deranged gerontocracy steering a crumbling empire into the sea. We can never rule anything out in a world where Donald Trump became America’s first Ayatollah, but I always have a simple question for these knee-jerk debunkers: do you really think you know more than one of the eight people in the legislative branch who gets covert action notifications? What about two of these people? Because Schumer is just following the legacy of his good friend, former Senate Majority Leader and Gang of Eight member and the last good establishment Democrat, Harry Reid. Reid helped fund AAWSAP, the government program that studied UFOs at the notorious Skinwalker Ranch. The last two Democratic Senate Majority Leaders know more about America’s covert world than everyone reading this article ever will combined, and they both think UFOs are real.

For decades, UFO disclosure has been a distant object — unidentified and unexplained.

That’s starting to change. I’ll keep pushing until we land on the truth. https://t.co/3SZpWrufJA

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) May 8, 2026

Congress clearly believes it has been lied to at the very least. To quote another cursed political actor familiar with the national security state, that is the core known known they are pursuing here. Rounds opened his speech on Thursday saying “for a number of years I’ve been concerned about congressional oversight of matters related to UAPs.” He said he believes that “Congress has the responsibility to exercise this oversight with an eye towards accountability by the executive branch,” and that “this impacts our national security and our fiscal responsibility.” Before getting into any of the crazy stuff that Rounds and Schumer wrote down in the UAPDA and submitted to the floor of the United States Congress, you can see the main reason that this issue has persisted in this self-neutering branch of government. A wide bipartisan swath of Senators and Representatives ranging from Schumer to Rep. Anna Paulina Luna all believe that Congress has appropriated funds that are actively being misappropriated. That’s illegal. A constitutional crisis, even. 

It is darkly funny to hear these folks talk about this crisis of government around UFOs, because it rings quite hollow as this same bipartisan group of congresspeople do not fight back against Donald Trump’s usurpation of their Article I congressional authority in every other realm. Their inability to serve as a check on a game show host losing one war to Iran and another to algae while he polls at all-time lows does not give my Fox Mulder brain much belief that Schumer’s band of  congressional UFO hunters can defeat the military industrial complex an outgoing president and former general once gravely warned us about. 

As I have written before, whatever you think about UFOs, even if you think it’s all bullshit–and it could be–this is not nothing. The Navy changed its reporting standards to allow the classification of unknown aerial phenomena in 2019, and official United States government bases from Langley to New Jersey to Palmdale to RAF Mildenhall and Lakenheath report unknowns violating their airspace at will. There are radar hits and sensor data and anomalous videos galore all trapped behind government classification that began to leak out long before Trump pretended he and his childish department of war losers had anything to do with this, and so if this is bullshit, that still means that someone is faking those radar hits and sensor data that have led to government investigations like AAWSAP’s.

Who has the capability to do something like this over decades? And for what purpose? Is this another MKUltra-style experiment on the population? What exactly does the CIA do all day? Edward Snowden revealed a decade ago that NSA is spying on all of us, so it’s not like we know we can trust these three-letter-agencies who could use another Church Committee or two. The CIA even identified this fakery as something the Soviets could attempt ahead of a real military invasion in the 1950s, so we know this notion is not poppycock in the intelligence circles who encircle this subject. Maybe this is all some big intelligence operation designed to trick us and influence the armed forces.

But that’s not what the UAPDA says. It suggests that “controlling authorities” defined as “any Federal, State, or local government department, office, agency, committee, commission, commercial company, academic institution, or private sector entity” could be in “physical possession of technologies of unknown origin or biological evidence of non-human intelligence.” It’s easy to dismiss this stuff when you hear it from podcasters or the more junior House UFO caucus with Reps. Luna, Burlison and Burchett who are even more shamelessly devoted to the cult of Trump than their Senate counterparts, but this bill is a serious effort by some of the most powerful people in the most powerful chamber in Congress to take non-human technologies away from private companies. Or at least threaten to. It quite literally says so.

My source also pointed me in this general direction, as “look into United States Air Force Plant 42” led me to the private contractors who operate there under the murky Government Owned Contractor Operated model that so many vital American engines of scientific discovery like Sandia Labs utilize. Journalist George Knapp specifically named Lockheed Martin under oath at one of the Congressional UAP hearings, saying that he thinks that the general UFO story is that something exotic crashed in the 1940s, the CIA recovered it, gave it to defense contractors like Lockheed and told them to keep quiet about it and figure it out, and they largely haven’t because that’s not how science works. Knapp and others even tell a story about how the CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology nixed a UFO transfer from Lockheed to AAWSAP contractor Bigelow Aerospace who wanted to study it. Dr. James Lacatski ran AAWSAP, and he later told Knapp on his Weaponized podcast with co-host Jeremy Corbell that the government had “breached the hull” of a craft in their possession.

In my own reporting and digging into this issue ever since my source sent me down the other rabbit hole of “pay attention to where this happens,” I have looked at sensitive facilities around the world which have had their airspace violated at will by unknown aerial phenomena for decades, especially nuclear facilities. The “Foo Fighters” reported by pilots during World War II resemble many reports of balls of light that enter sensitive airspace to this day. Even in the New Jersey drone hysteria where governors were taking photos of constellations and saying they were UFOs, the Department of Defense admitted that unknowns entered the very sensitive airspace of Picatinny Arsenal. Europe had an unknown “drone” flap last year that shut down a couple major airports. This is a documented worldwide trend spanning decades if not longer, to say nothing of the strange airships that swept the American West and Midwest in the late 1800s.

Christopher Sharp of the Liberation Times obtained a FOIA that unearthed details like how one “drone” hovered over Site 7 at USAF Plant 42 for 25 undeterred minutes, confirming one part of the story my source told me. There is no way in hell my source is telling me to look into Skunkworks’ airspace getting dominated if it’s China or Russia doing it. I do not know this for certain, but I have spent a lot of time pondering why this person who does not and has not talked much volunteered these leads to me unprompted, knowing I was an editor. I have come to surmise that part of the reason they told me these things is that perhaps internal government processes have broken down, and people like the Senate Minority Leader are trying to pass way crazier things into law than anything this person told me anyway. Both strongly suggest something unkosher is happening behind the classified scenes. I really think that this, whatever “this” is, is one of the worst-kept secrets in government that has leaked multiple times over the years and is now coming out into the open again and even random schmucks like me are hearing about it.

A lot of the debunkers will point to stories like Paul Bennewitz of how a lot of this is surely all documented three-letter agency fuckery, but I don’t think that really helps their case. Why are three-letter agencies so interested in this subject in the first place, and why did they supposedly take the time to drive Paul Bennewitz to madness? Why did the CIA believe in the 1950s that the Russians could convincingly fake a UFO invasion to cause mass hysteria and over-load our sensor systems? Could it be related to the peer-reviewed scientific study published in Nature that looked at photos of pre-Sputnik space and found that “Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey may be associated with nuclear testing and reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena”? Why was the Army studying psychic abilities through the Stargate Project from 1977 to 1995? Why are there Men Who Stare at Goats? 

This is a difficult subject to wrap your head around because you must center your worldview around an accepted unknown, and live only in degrees of probabilities. This leads many who have turned the scientific process of discovery into a hardened atheist-adjacent religion to reject UFOs as 100% conspiratorial garbage. It helps their case that they can point to all the conspiratorial garbage that fills what I have come to call the Great Bullshit Ocean around UFOs, but speaking as someone who is swimming through it right now at the direction of a well-positioned person who knows more than you or I ever will, I can tell you that beyond the very obvious deranged nonsense around this, there’s plenty of documented meat on this bone. And as the UAPDA suggests, a lot of it is connected to “private sector entit[ies]” at the bleeding edge of aerospace technology.