The Pentagon is permitting current and former personnel who were bound by secrecy agreements over Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, or UAP, activity to legally provide information to the government.
The Department of War said Monday that it has established a legal waiver allowing former and current service members, civilian employees and contractors to share UAP-related National Defense Information with authorized representatives of PURSUE — the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, the Trump administration’s UAP task force.
When disclosures are made through the authorized PURSUE channel, the waiver supersedes existing non-disclosure agreements and Special Access Program Indoctrination Agreements.
The policy is intended to establish a route for reviewing and potentially declassifying UAP-related records, advancing President Trump’s directive for broad transparency surrounding UAPs.
It builds on a July directive in which the Trump administration instructed the Department of War and the intelligence community to allow former employees with UAP knowledge to report it to either the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, known as AARO, or PURSUE.
Until Monday’s announcement, people with access to classified UAP material remained subject to their non-disclosure agreements and Special Access Program Indoctrination Agreements, commonly called SAPIAs.
For decades, concerns over legal exposure and the possible loss of security clearances discouraged people with UAP knowledge from speaking out.
Under the new waiver, individuals who submit information to PURSUE cannot be penalized, lose their security clearance or face legal or administrative consequences for violating those NDAs.
“This waiver removes those barriers by explicitly authorizing covered disclosures to PURSUE representatives without triggering breach-of-agreement penalties or standard NDA violations,” the Department of War said.
Trump has repeatedly expressed skepticism about the existence of alien life, but he ordered greater UFO transparency after former President Barack Obama said during a February interview of aliens: “They’re real, but I haven’t seen them.“
The Trump administration’s most recent UFO files release revealed that government employees witnessed a triangle UFO near Colorado Springs in 2023.
While the waiver opens the door for current and former government personnel to report UAP activity, it remains unclear whether the Pentagon has any plans to investigate the massive number of UFO sightings reported by the general public.
Earlier this month, famed TV host Dr. Phil McGraw accused the Pentagon of disregarding more than 1,800 legitimate UAP reports submitted by members of the public.
The only options available to the public are two private, non-government databases — the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) and the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) — that allow anyone to submit reports about UFOs and unexplained encounters.
Through NUFORC’s catalog of data, more than 1,800 UFO reports were classified as “Tier 1,” meaning they represented the most credible sightings on record, McGraw pointed out.
The AARO — the Pentagon division responsible for examining UFO sightings — has repeatedly promised to begin accepting public reports, but has yet to do so.
AARO said on its website that “reporting is limited at this time to current or former US Government employees, military personnel, or contractor personnel with direct knowledge of US Government programs or activities related to UAP dating back to 1945.”
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