Watered-Down UAP Disclosure Act of 2023 Passed by Congress

The act, which was heavily modified before its passage, allows for the collection of UAP sighting data but lacks a clear mandate for public access.

The UAP Disclosure Act of 2023, which was designed to authorize the government to collect UAP sightings and establish a review board to review secret data, was passed by Congress on December 14, but was heavily watered down before its passage.
The act was originally intended to compel the U.S. government to collect sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), make them public, and establish a review board to analyze them.
The act that passed into law is an agreement to collect government sighting and other data, but without a President-appointed review board that would review it for declassification.
The U.S. government will collect the UAP sighting data, but it’s not clear if the public will have access to any of it. The public may have to wait 25 years to see the fruits of this act, and even then, the president can keep them secret.
The measure that ultimately was included in the defense bill grants government agencies wide latitude to keep records classified.