In a Liberation Times interview, ex-Watergate and Pentagon Papers lawyer Daniel Sheehan, representing whistleblowers alleging hidden and potentially unlawful programs involving materials of non-human origin, warned that the window is closing to preserve the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) language in the U.S. Senate's 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
The language, known as the UAP Disclosure Act of 2023, put forth by Senate leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Mike Rounds, advocates for a controlled disclosure regarding the potential existence of materials and biologics with unknown or non-human origins.
Currently, lawmakers from the House and Senate are negotiating the final version of the NDAA to be signed by President Biden. Negotiators have been working for months and hope to release the text of a final bill as soon as next week.
Sheehan is President of the New Paradigm Institute, an organisation advocating for the UAP Disclosure Act to pass in its current form, and is closely involved with negotiations currently taking place, which will determine its inclusion within the final NDAA.
Sheehan informed Liberation Times that Senator Roger Wicker, the Republican ranking member of the Senate's Armed Services Committee, is the latest politician to join a small cohort of Republicans in opposition to the UAP Disclosure Act.
“They’ve brought on this guy, Roger Wicker, who's the Republican Senator from Mississippi,” Sheehan told Liberation Times.