July 31, 2025 • 10 mins
There is a war going on in Washington DC that goes beyond political bias or partisanship, and Cristina Gomez breaks down the controversy surrounding those who are fighting for UFO truths to be made public, and those with connections to defense contractors who have stonewalled every move, and other news updates.
00:00 - Senator Rounds Explains UAPs
02:06 - 2023's Revolutionary Bill
03:40 - What Biden Actually Signed
04:35 - 2024's Swift Termination
05:56 - 2025's Strategic Evolution
07:53 - The Eminent Domain Threat
08:49 - Coordinated Resistance Revealed
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00:00 - Senator Rounds Explains UAPs
02:06 - 2023's Revolutionary Bill
03:40 - What Biden Actually Signed
04:35 - 2024's Swift Termination
05:56 - 2025's Strategic Evolution
07:53 - The Eminent Domain Threat
08:49 - Coordinated Resistance Revealed
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Congress just filed the most comprehensive UAP disclosure bill in
American history. But here's what they don't want you to know.
This is actually the third time they've tried this, and
the first two attempts were systematically gutted by the same
group of politicians with ties to defense contractors. Hey you
follow gers, I'm Christina Gomez, and welcome to this episode
(00:22):
of UFO News Updates. The twenty twenty five UAP Disclosure
Act includes eminent domain over crash materials, a Kennedy Assassination
style review board, and provisions to seize UAP technologies from
private aerospace companies. But in twenty twenty three, a nearly
identical bill passed the Senate by eighty six to eleven,
(00:45):
only to be stripped down to nothing behind closed doors.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Kind of highlights some of the key disclosure takeaways from
this and what this act would actually mean for getting
some of this UAP information now. Sure, look, UAPs are items.
We don't know what they are. We haven't been able
to identify what they are. There's a pretty strong agreement
I think among most people that have studied this that
a lot of the sightings of items what used to
(01:11):
be UFOs. We're probably US aircraft that were being developed
for the stealth programs of the F one seventeen, the
F twenty two, you know, the SR seventy one and
so forth. But there are a number of other sightings,
not just visible sightings, but also radar, you know, catches
(01:33):
over the last twenty years that we just can't explain.
We've seen objects that move, you know, more rapidly than
any of the technologies that we've ever disclosed.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
That we have that Senator Mike Rounds on ABC News
explaining why this legislation keeps getting reintroduced. Let me show
you exactly who killed it twice and why this third
attempt might be different. If you enjoy UFO news updates,
CA cities, and interviews, you will like this channel. Subscribe
and share this episode with those you want to keep
(02:04):
in the now with the latest UFO news. On July thirteenth,
twenty twenty three, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator
Mike Rounds introduced the first UAP Disclosure Act. The original
version was revolutionary. It would have created an independent, nine
member review board with presidential appointments, established federal eminent domain
(02:25):
over technologies of unknown origin and biological evidence of non
human intelligence, and set a presumption that all UAP records
would be disclosed within twenty five years. The Senate passed
it overwhelmingly eighty six to eleven votes. But that's where
(02:46):
the story gets interesting. During the House Senate Conference Committee negotiations,
House Intelligence Chairman Mike was from Ohio and Armed Services
Chairman Mike Rogers from Alabama orchestrated the systematic destruction of
the Bill Turner, whose district includes Wright Patterson Air Force Base.
(03:06):
He received a little under two hundred thousand dollars from
Lockheed Martin. Rogers became the largest recipient of defense sector
funds in twenty twenty two. But the Pentagon's UAP Office
arrow provided eight thirty three page, line by line rewrites
of the Senate passed legislation, arguing the review board would
(03:28):
duplicate their work. Think about that, the same agencies that
created decades of UAP secrecy were rewriting the law designed
to end the secrecy.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
We don't want any of it destroyed. We don't want
contractors that might have any of that to destroy any
of it. We want them to know that they can
deliver it, and that they have an expectation that they
have to deliver it to this facility or or to
this this impoundment area.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
What former President Joe bide And signed into law in
December of twenty twenty three was a pretty much a
hollow shell. Gone were the independent review boards, Eminent Domain Authority,
subpoena powers, and presumption of disclosure. What remained was basically
a filing cabinet at the National Archives with no reinforcement mechanisms.
(04:19):
Completely eliminated the power to seize UAP materials from private contractors,
external oversight, government agencies, and any deadline for disclosure. The
final version gave agencies complete discretion over what to release. Undeterred,
Schumer and Rounds reintroduced nearly an identical legislation in July
(04:40):
of twenty twenty four. The twenty twenty four version restored
everything that had been stripped through review Board, the Eminent
Domain Authority, twenty million dollars in funds, and this time
they didn't even bother with Conference Committee theatrics. The amendment
was ordered to lie on the table through parliamentary procedure,
(05:02):
effectively killed without a vote. Meanwhile, Representative Tim Burshett introduced
a streamline House version requiring all UAP records to be
declassified within two hundred and seventy days. It died in committee,
same opposition, same result. The pattern was becoming clear.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Who confirmed many of my suspicions about this And the
way they do it is they put it off into
these corporations that have government contracts that are costs plus
and then we can't for you, then we can't ask
for a Freedom of Information Act on them. And that's
the way they do it. But I just want to
know what the government has every alphabet agency has. I mean,
(05:45):
we've we've had testimony that they have recovery units. What
are the heck are they recovering?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
The twenty twenty five version, filed July twenty ninth a
Senate Amendment three one one one is described as new
only identical to previous versions, but the strategy has evolved.
Sponsors have expanded the coalition to include Senator Gillibrand. They're
running dual tracks in both chambers, and they've built sustained
(06:16):
public pressure through whistleblower hearings.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Either they're telling us a heck of a story or
they truly don't know what it is, but it is
phenomenal in terms of its capabilities, in terms of speed
some of these objects, the speed at which it moves
the director, the easy way in which it can change directions,
the fact that it can be in both underwater and
in the air, and it can apparently move, you know,
(06:42):
to very very high altitudes as well, in a very
short period of time. And you know, these folks that
are given this information and that with the technologies that
we've got today, they're not making this stuff up. There's
there's something there, we just don't know what it is.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Those brilliant individuals rounds mentions are speaking in classified settings
with Senators because they fear losing their jobs if they
go public. This is the source pressure driving the legislation. Meanwhile,
the Senate Armed Services Committee Draft NDAA includes three separate
(07:20):
provisions targeting Pentagon UAP investigations, including requirements for NORRAD and
the Northern Command to brief Congress on UAP intercepts. Chris Mellen,
former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, told Defense Scoop that
norid's historical failure to inform Arrow of UAP incidents shows
(07:42):
these agencies can't be trusted to police themselves. Critical censor
data is often gone by the time ARROW learns of intercepts,
if it learns about them at all. The eminent domain
provision is what terrifies the opposition. Whistleblower David Grush specifically
named Lockheed Martin as holding retrieved UAP materials. Former Senator
(08:05):
Harry Reid was repeatedly denied clearance to view alleged Lockheed holdings.
If this bill passes, companies sitting on crash material would
have to surrender them at least they should, right And there's.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
There's no reason for them to come in to try
to tell us stories. These are folks that are very,
very capable. They are brilliant individuals. They they fear sometimes
that if their whole story got out, they'd lose their jobs.
They don't want that to happen. So they'll come in
and they'll visit with us in a classified setting with
just one or two or three of us there. And
our agreement is is we will not disclose, you know,
(08:42):
and and we won't we won't let it get back
to their either the contractor that they work for or
to the department that they work for.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
This three attempt history reveals coordinated resistance from entrenched interests.
The same House. Republican leaders, pentagon officers, and defense contractors
have successfully blocked every meaningful disclosure mechanism while allowing cosmetic
reforms that preserve their control.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
We are collecting the information now, we've set up a
separate database that has passed into law. The part that
is not in law is having a commission set up
to actually disseminate or to go through filter through this,
organize it, and then to be able to lay out
and disclose to the American people what we've actually learned
and what we simply don't know. The origins of it are.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
What we're witnessing is a genuine struggle between transparency advocates
and powerful interests invested in maintaining secrecy. The repeated stripping
of identical provisions across multiple congressional sessions shows this isn't
about legitimate security concerns. It's about preserving institutional control over
(09:58):
potentially trans formative information. Do you think this third bill
will pass? Let me know in the comments below. That
is it for today. I will see you next time.
Be safe and remember keep your eyes on the skies.
(10:28):
If you enjoy the strange and the mysterious UFOs, the
paranormal encryptids. This channel is for you, so make sure
to subscribe as I do three videos right here every
single week, and hit that modification bell so you do
not miss any of the bonus content I post you
right here
Congress just filed the most comprehensive UAP disclosure bill in
American history. But here's what they don't want you to know.
This is actually the third time they've tried this, and
the first two attempts were systematically gutted by the same
group of politicians with ties to defense contractors. Hey you
follow gers, I'm Christina Gomez, and welcome to this episode
(00:22):
of UFO News Updates. The twenty twenty five UAP Disclosure
Act includes eminent domain over crash materials, a Kennedy Assassination
style review board, and provisions to seize UAP technologies from
private aerospace companies. But in twenty twenty three, a nearly
identical bill passed the Senate by eighty six to eleven,
(00:45):
only to be stripped down to nothing behind closed doors.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Kind of highlights some of the key disclosure takeaways from
this and what this act would actually mean for getting
some of this UAP information now. Sure, look, UAPs are items.
We don't know what they are. We haven't been able
to identify what they are. There's a pretty strong agreement
I think among most people that have studied this that
a lot of the sightings of items what used to
(01:11):
be UFOs. We're probably US aircraft that were being developed
for the stealth programs of the F one seventeen, the
F twenty two, you know, the SR seventy one and
so forth. But there are a number of other sightings,
not just visible sightings, but also radar, you know, catches
(01:33):
over the last twenty years that we just can't explain.
We've seen objects that move, you know, more rapidly than
any of the technologies that we've ever disclosed.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
That we have that Senator Mike Rounds on ABC News
explaining why this legislation keeps getting reintroduced. Let me show
you exactly who killed it twice and why this third
attempt might be different. If you enjoy UFO news updates,
CA cities, and interviews, you will like this channel. Subscribe
and share this episode with those you want to keep
(02:04):
in the now with the latest UFO news. On July thirteenth,
twenty twenty three, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator
Mike Rounds introduced the first UAP Disclosure Act. The original
version was revolutionary. It would have created an independent, nine
member review board with presidential appointments, established federal eminent domain
(02:25):
over technologies of unknown origin and biological evidence of non
human intelligence, and set a presumption that all UAP records
would be disclosed within twenty five years. The Senate passed
it overwhelmingly eighty six to eleven votes. But that's where
(02:46):
the story gets interesting. During the House Senate Conference Committee negotiations,
House Intelligence Chairman Mike was from Ohio and Armed Services
Chairman Mike Rogers from Alabama orchestrated the systematic destruction of
the Bill Turner, whose district includes Wright Patterson Air Force Base.
(03:06):
He received a little under two hundred thousand dollars from
Lockheed Martin. Rogers became the largest recipient of defense sector
funds in twenty twenty two. But the Pentagon's UAP Office
arrow provided eight thirty three page, line by line rewrites
of the Senate passed legislation, arguing the review board would
(03:28):
duplicate their work. Think about that, the same agencies that
created decades of UAP secrecy were rewriting the law designed
to end the secrecy.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
We don't want any of it destroyed. We don't want
contractors that might have any of that to destroy any
of it. We want them to know that they can
deliver it, and that they have an expectation that they
have to deliver it to this facility or or to
this this impoundment area.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
What former President Joe bide And signed into law in
December of twenty twenty three was a pretty much a
hollow shell. Gone were the independent review boards, Eminent Domain Authority,
subpoena powers, and presumption of disclosure. What remained was basically
a filing cabinet at the National Archives with no reinforcement mechanisms.
(04:19):
Completely eliminated the power to seize UAP materials from private contractors,
external oversight, government agencies, and any deadline for disclosure. The
final version gave agencies complete discretion over what to release. Undeterred,
Schumer and Rounds reintroduced nearly an identical legislation in July
(04:40):
of twenty twenty four. The twenty twenty four version restored
everything that had been stripped through review Board, the Eminent
Domain Authority, twenty million dollars in funds, and this time
they didn't even bother with Conference Committee theatrics. The amendment
was ordered to lie on the table through parliamentary procedure,
(05:02):
effectively killed without a vote. Meanwhile, Representative Tim Burshett introduced
a streamline House version requiring all UAP records to be
declassified within two hundred and seventy days. It died in committee,
same opposition, same result. The pattern was becoming clear.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Who confirmed many of my suspicions about this And the
way they do it is they put it off into
these corporations that have government contracts that are costs plus
and then we can't for you, then we can't ask
for a Freedom of Information Act on them. And that's
the way they do it. But I just want to
know what the government has every alphabet agency has. I mean,
(05:45):
we've we've had testimony that they have recovery units. What
are the heck are they recovering?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
The twenty twenty five version, filed July twenty ninth a
Senate Amendment three one one one is described as new
only identical to previous versions, but the strategy has evolved.
Sponsors have expanded the coalition to include Senator Gillibrand. They're
running dual tracks in both chambers, and they've built sustained
(06:16):
public pressure through whistleblower hearings.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Either they're telling us a heck of a story or
they truly don't know what it is, but it is
phenomenal in terms of its capabilities, in terms of speed
some of these objects, the speed at which it moves
the director, the easy way in which it can change directions,
the fact that it can be in both underwater and
in the air, and it can apparently move, you know,
(06:42):
to very very high altitudes as well, in a very
short period of time. And you know, these folks that
are given this information and that with the technologies that
we've got today, they're not making this stuff up. There's
there's something there, we just don't know what it is.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Those brilliant individuals rounds mentions are speaking in classified settings
with Senators because they fear losing their jobs if they
go public. This is the source pressure driving the legislation. Meanwhile,
the Senate Armed Services Committee Draft NDAA includes three separate
(07:20):
provisions targeting Pentagon UAP investigations, including requirements for NORRAD and
the Northern Command to brief Congress on UAP intercepts. Chris Mellen,
former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, told Defense Scoop that
norid's historical failure to inform Arrow of UAP incidents shows
(07:42):
these agencies can't be trusted to police themselves. Critical censor
data is often gone by the time ARROW learns of intercepts,
if it learns about them at all. The eminent domain
provision is what terrifies the opposition. Whistleblower David Grush specifically
named Lockheed Martin as holding retrieved UAP materials. Former Senator
(08:05):
Harry Reid was repeatedly denied clearance to view alleged Lockheed holdings.
If this bill passes, companies sitting on crash material would
have to surrender them at least they should, right And there's.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
There's no reason for them to come in to try
to tell us stories. These are folks that are very,
very capable. They are brilliant individuals. They they fear sometimes
that if their whole story got out, they'd lose their jobs.
They don't want that to happen. So they'll come in
and they'll visit with us in a classified setting with
just one or two or three of us there. And
our agreement is is we will not disclose, you know,
(08:42):
and and we won't we won't let it get back
to their either the contractor that they work for or
to the department that they work for.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
This three attempt history reveals coordinated resistance from entrenched interests.
The same House. Republican leaders, pentagon officers, and defense contractors
have successfully blocked every meaningful disclosure mechanism while allowing cosmetic
reforms that preserve their control.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
We are collecting the information now, we've set up a
separate database that has passed into law. The part that
is not in law is having a commission set up
to actually disseminate or to go through filter through this,
organize it, and then to be able to lay out
and disclose to the American people what we've actually learned
and what we simply don't know. The origins of it are.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
What we're witnessing is a genuine struggle between transparency advocates
and powerful interests invested in maintaining secrecy. The repeated stripping
of identical provisions across multiple congressional sessions shows this isn't
about legitimate security concerns. It's about preserving institutional control over
(09:58):
potentially trans formative information. Do you think this third bill
will pass? Let me know in the comments below. That
is it for today. I will see you next time.
Be safe and remember keep your eyes on the skies.
(10:28):
If you enjoy the strange and the mysterious UFOs, the
paranormal encryptids. This channel is for you, so make sure
to subscribe as I do three videos right here every
single week, and hit that modification bell so you do
not miss any of the bonus content I post you
right here
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