Republican senator from South Dakota. Co-sponsor with Sen. Schumer of the 2023 UAP Disclosure Act, the most ambitious legislative attempt to date to establish a controlled-disclosure framework for UAP records.
Sen. Mike Rounds is a United States Senator who co-sponsored the UAP Disclosure Act alongside Senator Chuck Schumer to address historical government secrecy. He brings a pragmatic, national security-focused perspective to the legislative effort, aiming to resolve the decades of obfuscation surrounding anomalous phenomena. Rounds's key contribution lies in his bipartisan cooperation to draft legislation that mandates a government-wide records review and public declassification process for UAP materials. He has emphasized that the public has a right to know the truth, whether the phenomenon represents foreign adversarial technology or something of non-human origin. His collaboration highlights the broad, cross-party consensus on the necessity of UAP transparency.