Burchett: Two-Hour Pentagon Meeting – 'Deep State Is Blocking' Disclosure
July 20, 2026 – July 26, 2026
Monday, July 20
Burlison’s Revised UAP Disclosure Amendment Tracked for NDAA Floor Path
Advocacy accounts reported that the House Rules Committee labeled Rep. Eric Burlison’s revised UAP Disclosure Amendment (Version 2, July 15) as “Made in Order” for the FY2027 NDAA (H.R. 8800) – a potential path to a House vote after an earlier version was boxed out of the rules package in June. The amendment aims to create an independent UAP Records Review Board with subpoena-linked powers and force agency/contractor records into a NARA collection. Final Rules action and any floor vote still determine whether it becomes more than a submitted blueprint. Burlison article →
Source: OVERCLASSIFIED on X
Tuesday, July 21
Trump Orders NDA Waivers for UAP Witnesses Briefing AARO or PURSUE
Fox News Digital reported that President Donald Trump directed the Department of War and the intelligence community to allow former government employees and contractors with relevant UAP information to meet designated officials at AARO or the presidential PURSUE task force – and to have prior nondisclosure agreements abrogated for those authorized discussions.
Senior administration officials stressed the move is not a blanket public-speaking or declassification order. Information would still move through existing declassification procedures, with officials saying material that “sheds light on the UAP mystery will ultimately be made public.” One official said the next PURSUE tranche is coming “very soon.” Full article →
Sources: Fox News · Mario Nawfal on X · Chris Sharp on X
AARO Releases FY2025 Consolidated Annual Report
The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office posted its Fiscal Year 2025 Consolidated Annual Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena – the congressionally mandated yearly product that had been overdue relative to prior reporting cycles. The PDF is hosted on AARO’s site under Congressional/Press Products. Analysts will spend the coming days comparing caseload figures, resolution rates, and unresolved categories against the FY2024 report and against the parallel PURSUE unresolved-file releases.
Sources: Grant Lavac on X · AARO FY2025 Annual Report (PDF)
Jay Stratton Memoir Out of the Shadows Set for October
Former UAP Task Force leader Jay Stratton announced a memoir, Out of the Shadows, scheduled for October 13, 2026 via HarperCollins. Stratton has been among the most senior U.S. officials publicly associated with modern UAP investigation architecture; the book is being framed as a firsthand account of the programs and briefings that sat behind the post-2017 disclosure wave.
Source: OVERCLASSIFIED on X
Wednesday, July 22
House Adopts Burlison UAP Disclosure Amendment – Defense Bill Passes 216–212
The House adopted Rep. Eric Burlison’s UAP Disclosure amendment to the FY2027 NDAA (H.R. 8800) and then narrowly passed the House defense bill 216–212. The provision tracks the Schumer–Rounds UAP Disclosure Act model: a presidentially appointed, Senate-confirmed records review board, centralized collection of agency/contractor UAP records, and eminent-domain authority over alleged technologies of unknown origin or biologics held privately. It now faces Senate negotiations and conference – the same gauntlet that gutted the 2023–2024 UAPDA. Full article →
Sources: Burlison on X · Disclosure Foundation on X
Liberation Times: Disclosure Speech Prepared for Trump – Delivery Not Guaranteed
Liberation Times reported July 21 that multiple sources say a presidential speech confirming that some UFOs are of non-human origin has been prepared for President Trump – while stressing that contingency drafts are routine and do not equal a decision to deliver. The piece ties the draft to the expanding White House stack (PURSUE, Governance Board, Science Advisory Council, NDA channel) and to lobbying for Congress to finish Gallaudet’s third leg: legislation. Editor Christopher Sharp has separately cautioned that prepared ≠ imminent.
Source: Liberation Times
Coulthart’s Reality Check: Dr Phil on Early Access to UFO Files
NewsNation’s Reality Check aired Ross Coulthart with Dr. Phil McGraw on McGraw’s early look at the latest government UFO-file tranche and what he says he is certain of after reviewing the material – extending the mainstream crossover covered in our July 15 Dr Phil article.
Source: NewsNation / Reality Check
Friday, July 24
Burlison: Amendment Makes Disclosure the Default
Two days after the House adopted his UAP Disclosure amendment, Rep. Eric Burlison posted that the measure “flips that standard, making disclosure the default” after years of UAP material being “classified by default without meaningful review.” He also marked the amendment as secured on X – a victory lap before the harder Senate/conference fight. Amendment article →
Sources: Burlison on X · Burlison on X
Matthew Brown: NDA Path Is a “Catch and Kill” Trap
Whistleblower Matthew Brown published Catch and Kill: How to Advance Disclosure Without Falling Into Deep-State Traps, arguing Trump’s NDA-waiver channel is a modest step that still routes witnesses into AARO, ODNI, and PURSUE – offices he says whistleblowers should not trust without written waivers, immunity, congressional access, and deadlines. He urges a White House task force that cuts out the middlemen. Jeremy Corbell called it a clarifying read on the announcement. Brown ODNI background →
Sources: Brown / Invisible Frontiers · Corbell on X
Saturday, July 25
Burchett: Two-Hour Pentagon Meeting, Then Deep-State Block Charge
Rep. Tim Burchett told Planet Tyrus (via Fox News) he attended a “very high-level” Pentagon UAP meeting lasting over two hours, declined to name attendees, and said “the disclosure is real” while “the deep state is blocking a lot of this.” He also described a security hearing where a staffer told him “the president’s on a need-to-know basis,” and said pilots have destroyed UAP footage to avoid psych evals and flight-line retaliation. Full article →
Sources: Fox News · UAP James on X
Ask a Pol: Stephen Miller Gets UFO Question at the Capitol
Ask a Pol founder Matt Laslo posted video of a July 22 Capitol encounter with White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller – the official lawmakers have repeatedly named as the administration’s UAP point person – after bumping into Miller with family and Secret Service. Full write-up is on Ask a Pol’s channel; the clip keeps Miller in the public disclosure frame alongside Burchett’s Pentagon complaint the same weekend.
Source: Ask a Pol on X
