U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE APPROVES FY 2027 NDAA WITH NO APPARENT NEW UAP/UFO PROVISIONS
There is a lot of chatter these days about UAP and "disclosure" on social media and in other media, but you would not know it based on yesterday's marathon voting session in the Armed Services Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Yesterday (June 4, 2026) the committee amended and approved its $1.15 trillion version of the FY 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) (H.R. 8800), by a vote of 44-12.
As usual, the committee started with a base bill, called the "Chairman's Mark" (the chairman is Rep. Mike Rogers, R-AL), and then in the course of a 14-hour "markup" (voting session) acted on something like 900 proposed revisions. The committee adopted hundreds of revisions as individual amendments or en bloc amendments (i.e., amendments made up of lists of incorporated amendments).
While the matter is not free from doubt due to the volume of material and variations in possible language, I found no amendment submitted by any of the 57 members of the committee (and no provision in the underlying Chairman's Mark) incorporating any of the provisions of the "UAP Disclosure Act," or referring to UAP or AARO in any other fashion. It appears, therefore, that the committee-approved bill would neither add to nor subtract from the UAP-related enactments of recent years, which I have covered extensively on this platform and elsewhere.
However, certainty will only be possible when the clerks incorporate all amendments and post a unified committee-reported bill, which will take some time.
There are many further steps in the NDAA-enactment process; in recent years the NDAAs have never reached enactment before late December. No schedule for House floor action on H.R. 8800 has been announced, although my guess is that it will occur before July 4.
The next stop for the bill will be the House Rules Committee, where any House member can file amendments for possible consideration on the House floor. However, the Rules Committee will make only a fraction of the filed amendments in order for floor consideration, and not all of those will be adopted on the floor.
In August 2025, Congressman
@EricBurlison submitted a version of the "UAP Disclosure Act" to the Rules Committee during its consideration of the FY 2026 NDAA, but the Rules Committee did not make that amendment in order; Mr. Burlison voiced dissatisfaction about that outcome in public remarks on September 9, 2025.
Meanwhile, the Senate Armed Services Committee is scheduled to mark up its version of the FY 2027 NDAA (as yet unseen) in closed sessions on June 9-10, 2026.