---
title: "Bonkers New Law Would Reveal Alien Technology, “Non-Human Intelligence”"
description: "New legislation which would require any information on \"Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP)\" to be publicly disclosed."
date: "2023-07-20"
modified: "2023-07-20"
authors:
  - name: "Sharon Adarlo"
    job_title: "Correspondent"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/sadarlo"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/new-law-would-reveal-alien-technology"
categories:
  - "Off-World"
  - "Space"
tags:
  - "aliens"
  - "the digest"
  - "UFO"
  - "unidentified anomalous phenomena"
---

# Bonkers New Law Would Reveal Alien Technology, “Non-Human Intelligence”

![New legislation which would require any information on "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP)" to be publicly disclosed.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/new-law-would-reveal-alien-technology.jpg>)
*Artwork of a UFO or unidentified flying object. \<em\>Image: Getty Images\</em\>*

## Across the Aisle

Warring Democrats and Republicans have set aside their differences on one very strange topic: aliens — and no, not aliens in the sense of people from another country, but hypothetical beings from another planet entirely.

US Senator Chuck Schumer, who has never struck anybody as a particularly wild-eyed conspiracy theorist, introduced legislation this month which would require any information on "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP)" to be publicly disclosed.

Lest that dry-sounding neologism "UAP" throw you off the scent, Schumer is very much talking about the possibility that the government secretly knows something about non-human visitors.

"For decades, many Americans have been fascinated by objects mysterious and unexplained and it’s long past time they get some answers," he said in a [press release](<https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/schumer-rounds-introduce-new-legislation-to-declassify-government-records-related-to-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-and-ufos_modeled-after-jfk-assassination-records-collection-act--as-an-amendment-to-ndaa>). "The American public has a right to learn about technologies of unknown origins, non-human intelligence, and unexplainable phenomena."

## Bill Fold

Schumer, as majority leader, lent the bill further gravitas with the co-sponsorship of Republicans including Florida Senator Marco Rubio.

As wild as the bill sounds, it's not entirely out of step with a general enthusiasm for the disclosure of any secret alien files that might exist that's struck Washington lately. In 2021, for instance, the government released a [somewhat underwhelming report](<https://futurism.com/ufo-report-released>) on 144 unidentified flying objects that officials said they couldn't definitively rule out as "atmospheric events playing tricks on sensors or crafts piloted by foreign adversaries," as [*The Washington Post* reported](<https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/ufo-report/2021/06/25/ba323b20-d52c-11eb-ae54-515e2f63d37d_story.html>) at the time.

And that's without getting into a former intelligence worker who [came out publicly](<https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-retrieved-non-human-craft/>) this year to claim — [without evidence, it's worth noting](<https://futurism.com/us-recovered-non-human-vehicles>) — that the government has [secretly recovered otherworldy spacecraft](<https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-retrieved-non-human-craft/>) and even the bodies of dead aliens.

If it all sounds a little nuts, you're not alone. Occam's razor dictates that bills like Schumer's are just a way to ingratiate themselves with voters by aligning with a popular concept — although, if the government really does have any knowledge of alien intelligence, we have to admit that would be pretty cool.

**More on aliens:** [*Scientists Want To Use AI To Hunt For Aliens On Mars*](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/scientists-ai-hunt-aliens-mars>)