Main Article / Jul 21, 2026

Greer and Burlison have put two very different clocks on UAP disclosure

By Jan for UAP Logbook / Published

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Steven Greer has given the White House until August 29. Rep. Eric Burlison's UAP records amendment now has a House Rules path, but its deadlines would start only if Congress enacts it.

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Two UAP disclosure clocks are now running in Washington. They look similar at a glance: both involve records, both invoke late August, and both are being discussed as if they might force hidden material into public view.

They are not the same mechanism.

Steven Greer's clock is private. His June 28 letter asked the White House and other senior officials for a written contradiction of his claims by August 29, or he says his organization will solicit and release further evidence. The letter is public; there is no public confirmation that its recipients accepted its terms or owe a response.

Rep. Eric Burlison's clock is legislative. His revised House Rules amendment 1044 — an amendment number in the NDAA process, not the number of a stand-alone bill — would create a UAP Records Collection at the National Archives and an independent Records Review Board. On the House Rules Committee's current FY2027 NDAA page, the amendment is listed as Made in Order. That is a real procedural advance. It is not enactment.

Greer's date is August 29

Greer's letter gives President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other officials a 60-day window ending August 29. It asks for an authorized written denial of what Greer describes as a long-running UAP-related criminal conspiracy. If no such reply appears, he says the Disclosure Project will seek additional material from its network and release it without redactions, apart from technical details that could enable replication of man-made craft.

The deadline is a promise made by Greer, not a deadline created by statute, court order, or congressional committee. It can still produce news: a letter, a document release, an official reply, or a missed date. But none is compelled by the public text now available.

Greer has used a similar structure before. His own CSETI archive records that a 1996 Project Starlight ultimatum expired on January 1, 1997 after asking the U.S. government to correct its position on whether government-related UFO witnesses could speak openly. The archive establishes that an earlier deadline existed. It does not, by itself, establish what material was released afterward or whether any government response met the demand. That is the useful limit on the comparison.

Burlison's clocks start only if Congress acts

Rules #1044 is more concrete about process. Its revised text directs the Archivist to begin establishing a UAP Records Collection within 60 days of enactment. It gives the Archivist 45 days to make a standard identification form available to government offices. It gives agency heads 300 days after enactment to review, identify and organize their UAP records for disclosure, review-board review, and transmission to the National Archives.

The amendment also says records that can be disclosed should be available for inspection and copying at the National Archives within 30 days of transmission, with an online database deadline of no more than 180 days after that. It proposes a 25-year release rule, subject to a presidential certification of identifiable harm to defense, intelligence, law enforcement, or foreign relations.

Those are deadlines with an institutional owner and an enforcement structure on paper. But they are conditional. The amendment is currently one item in the House's NDAA process. It would have to survive the House, Senate, conference, and presidential-signature path before any of its time periods begin.

The first version did not become law

This is not Burlison's first attempt to build a JFK Act-style UAP archive. During the FY2026 NDAA process, House Rules listed his Amendment 925, Version 3, with the same basic architecture: a National Archives collection, a nine-member review board, and a 25-year disclosure rule subject to a presidential exception. The FY2026 NDAA later became Public Law 119-60. Its UAP subtitle contains briefings, reporting changes, and an accounting of classification guides — not the collection or review board described in Amendment 925.

That history changes the read of #1044. It is not a sudden new disclosure law. It is a renewed attempt with a broader bipartisan sponsor list and a better House Rules position than a mere submitted amendment. It still has the same central political test: whether the language remains in the final legislation after the House and Senate process.

Why the distinction matters

The two tracks answer different questions. Greer's letter asks whether an administration will publicly reject his claims, and whether he will release the evidence he says he can obtain. Burlison's amendment asks how records should be located, preserved, reviewed and published across government over time.

One could generate a dramatic document in late August. The other could produce a durable archive, but only after a bill becomes law and agencies do the work. Neither process, as currently public, establishes that a particular UAP claim is true.

What to watch

  • Whether House action preserves, alters, or drops Rules #1044 from the FY2027 NDAA.
  • Whether the Senate version develops comparable UAP-records language. No matching Senate counterpart has been identified in the material reviewed for this draft; that is not evidence that one cannot emerge during the NDAA process.
  • Whether any White House, State Department, or other named office responds to Greer's letter before August 29.
  • Whether Greer releases a record that can be independently checked rather than another assertion about material held off-screen.

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