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AC 13.2024
Date: February 6, 2024 Memorandum to Federal Records Management Contacts: Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Records This AC memo is to inform agency records managers about the recent law on federal records related to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). Sections 1841-1843 of the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (Public Law 118-31) require NARA to establish the ‘‘Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Records Collection." The law also requires that by October 2024, each federal agency review, identify, and organize each UAP record in its custody for disclosure to the public and transmission to the National Archives.
As one of the first steps, NARA will provide agencies with guidance on what information will be needed to create and manage this collection. The law directs NARA to create a standard form or finding aid for agency use in identifying and reviewing records in the new UAP collection.
NARA will provide this guidance as soon as possible. A preview of the type of metadata or information NARA will need is agency name, file identifiers, document title, date, originator, from, to, location, classification level, restrictions, and number of pages. We will need to know what records can be publicly disclosed and what records must be protected, in whole or in part.
To expedite the collection process, agencies should begin identifying all unidentified anomalous phenomena records as required by the law. Agencies should begin planning on how to create metadata and review these records.
NARA will provide further guidance and communications as we develop processes to identify records responsive to the Act as well as instructions for how to transfer responsive records to the National Archives.
LAURENCE BREWER
Chief Records Officer for the U.S. Government
CHRIS NAYLOR
Executive for Research Services
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) provides access to many government records on Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) and Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) through the National Archives Catalog and NARA's website. Additionally, since 2023 NARA has been digitizing historical records from its holdings, in support of the Department of Defense. Digitized records are being made available in the Catalog on a rolling basis as the work is completed.
Please explore the links below to find out more about UFO records in NARA’s holdings. All links to Catalog items are downloadable and can be republished with attribution to the National Archives and Records Administration. This Special Topics page will be updated as additional records are digitized and made available online.
Disclaimer
This information is made available, in part, as a result of the Fiscal Year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, which directed NARA to support the Department of Defense's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). For more information, visit www.aaro.mil
originally posted by: Ophiuchus1
a reply to: quintessentone
Ok
👽
originally posted by: pianopraze
a reply to: quintessentone
Exactly what you think it means.
Lol.
originally posted by: cdf21882
By sanitizing they mean removing anything of importance that is not need-to-know.
a reply to: quintessentone
originally posted by: cdf21882
Easier to get people to go along with it. You use the term classified and people tend to question things more.
a reply to: quintessentone
originally posted by: cdf21882
This might be a little off topic, but am I the only one that feels changing the name from UFO to UAP was a cop-out?
a reply to: Ophiuchus1
“you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig”
originally posted by: cdf21882
This might be a little off topic, but am I the only one that feels changing the name from UFO to UAP was a cop-out?
a reply to: Ophiuchus1
originally posted by: quintessentone
originally posted by: cdf21882
Easier to get people to go along with it. You use the term classified and people tend to question things more.
a reply to: quintessentone
Not me, that 'sanitized' term set off my alarm bells.
Another thought, why keep anything vetted or classified from that time period. Haven't all their military secrets been discovered already?
originally posted by: network dude
originally posted by: cdf21882
This might be a little off topic, but am I the only one that feels changing the name from UFO to UAP was a cop-out?
a reply to: Ophiuchus1
after years of the psyop demonizing anyone who claimed to have seen "little green men from mars in their UFO", they can't just come out and say "Turns out UFOs might be real" without sounding like total douchbags.
originally posted by: Ophiuchus1
originally posted by: cdf21882
This might be a little off topic, but am I the only one that feels changing the name from UFO to UAP was a cop-out?
a reply to: Ophiuchus1
“you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig”
😉
👽
originally posted by: pianopraze
Exactly what you think it means.
originally posted by: network dude
after years of the psyop demonizing anyone who claimed to have seen "little green men from mars in their UFO", they can't just come out and say "Turns out UFOs might be real" without sounding like total douchbags.