On June 25, 2026, the Disclosure Foundation, a nonprofit chaired by former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Christopher Mellon, held a daylong public forum in the Kennedy Caucus Room of the Russell Senate Office Building. It’s the same room that hosted the Titanic, Army-McCarthy and Watergate hearings. The theme was “Humanity at the Edge of Discovery.”

The speakers were unusually senior for a UFO event. Senators Mike Rounds, a South Dakota Republican, and Kirsten Gillibrand, a New York Democrat, both sit on the Armed Services and Intelligence committees. Gillibrand helped create the Pentagon’s UAP office in 2022, and Rounds co-wrote the 2023 UAP Disclosure Act with Chuck Schumer and has vowed to bring it back. House speakers included Anna Paulina Luna, Eric Burlison, André Carson and Suhas Subramanyam.

Panels covered national security, science, markets and religion. Speakers included Avi Loeb, physicist Harold Puthoff, retired Rear Adm. Tim Gallaudet and Yale historian Carlos Eire. Ahead of the event, the foundation released a poll finding that 89 percent of Republicans and 88 percent of Democrats want more UAP information released. Loeb said the findings of the government science panel he leads would be unclassified, and former NASA official Mike Gold called for a review of NASA’s archives.

Whistleblower Jeff Nuccetelli also spoke to reporters there. No new evidence was presented. The goal, organizers said, was to move from document dumps to law.