This week, Congress is set to authorize $901 billion in defense spending for FY26.
That alone should get investors’ attention.
But beneath that jaw-dropping headline expenditure, a noteworthy clause lies within the fine print of the 3,086-word bill.
It requires the Pentagon to brief lawmakers on any UAP intercepts since 2004.
That’s the trade-off for the biggest defense budget America has ever seen. The Pentagon has to tell Congress if it has in fact recovered alien craft as several former officials have claimed.
The division that handles such interactions is called the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). It was created in 2022, during the Biden administration, as part of the following year’s defense appropriation.
And it’s been fleshed out in each subsequent defense bill.
For example, the 2024 NDAA required AARO to establish a UAP records collection at the National Archives. It also directed agencies to review and organize those records for public release.
It’s in this manner that Congress has been chipping away at full disclosure regarding UAP.
And it’s still not enough for some members.
Missouri Congressman Eric Burlison submitted an amendment that would:
- Prohibit the destruction or alteration of UAP records.
- Create a UAP Records Collection at the National Archives to preserve and make available all relevant government records.
- Establish an independent UAP Records Review Board to oversee the review and declassification process.
- Require public disclosure of UAP records within 25 years unless the president certifies a clear national security reason for delay.
- Provide ongoing congressional oversight to ensure accountability.
“For too long, Americans have been left in the dark about UAP,” Burlison said. “This amendment ensures these records are preserved, reviewed, and responsibly released to the public. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and the American people deserve the truth.”
Of course, not all of those points made it into the final version of the bill. But it did move the needle a little bit by requiring the AARO to supply Congress with briefings and to disclose the “number, location, and nature” of any UAP intercepts conducted by Northcom and NORAD.
It also demands details about the procedures and protocols followed during those operations, “including any data collected or analyzed during such intercepts.”
So while these amendments and guidelines stop short of disclosure, they’re incremental steps that strengthen oversight, remove barriers to information sharing, and ultimately open the door to more transparency regarding UAP.
And transparency is something that’s been sorely lacking.
The fact that we still know so little about UAPs testifies to that.
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In the most benign case imaginable, there are unexplained objects in the sky that haven’t yet been explained by science.
And in the most insidious case, our government has spent decades engaging with alien spacecraft, or even non-human lifeforms, and hiding it.
That would be, above all else, a jaw-dropping betrayal of public trust and democratic governance. But it would also be a ghastly failure to adequately secure our nation.
After all, these UAP occurrences tend to be concentrated around military and nuclear installations.
That’s a problem regardless of whether or not they’re extraterrestrial.
To that point, NORAD and Northcom chief General Gregory Guillot recently warned about the prevalence of drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) around American military installations.
“The primary threat I see for them in the way they’ve been operating is detection and perhaps surveillance of sensitive capabilities on our installations,” Guillot said during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. “There were 350 detections reported last year on military installations, and that was 350 over a total of 100 different installations of all types and levels of security.”
So, even supposing the UAP threat isn’t otherworldly at all, but rather a matter of our adversaries spying on U.S. military installations and nuclear facilities with drones…
That’s still something Congress and the American people should know about.
It’s something investors should be keeping tabs on, too.
That gets back to the $900 billion defense budget. At the very least, it’s another massive cash infusion for defense contractors and tech firms.
And when it comes to UAP specifically, one company in particular is likely highly involved.
You can get my full report on that right here.
It details the massive profit opportunity that could come from technology that hasn’t yet been fully disclosed to the public.
Fight on,

Jason Simpkins
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