South Dakota senator wants feds to keep UFO accounts centralized

Included in National Defense Authorization Act, Rounds' provision establishes UFO accounts a public record

Is the existence of intelligent life beyond Earth real?

Sen. Mike Rounds isn’t ruling it out.

And with more official accounts of unidentified flying objects (UFO) in recent years — even former military members testifying before Congress about sightings of aircraft and, in some cases, living beings — South Dakota’s junior senator has crafted language ordering the federal government to centralize UFO records.

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The “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act,” placed in a national defense bill passed by the Senate this week, also sets a basis that information the government possesses about unidentified anomalous (UAP) phenomena, a euphemism for UFOs, is a public record.

Right now, agencies of the U.S. government are not required to send information about extraterrestrial objects to a central collection site.

“We want a central location where all of this data could be kept,” Rounds told The Dakota Scout. “Right now, the Department of Defense has some of it, the Department of Energy has some of it, other departments may very well too. There has not ever been anything put out before creating a centralized collection location.”

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