Form D1-1. Oversight Request Letter for UAP-Related Special Access Program Reports and Notifications

[Committee letterhead]

[Date]

The Honorable [Secretary of War] [and/or The Honorable Director of National Intelligence] [Address]

Dear Secretary [Name]:

Pursuant to the Committee’s oversight responsibilities [and 10 U.S.C. §119 / 50 U.S.C. §§3091-3094 / 50 U.S.C. §§3373, 3373b], the Committee requests the following, in classified form where necessary, by [date]:

1. Every report submitted under 10 U.S.C. §119(a) and (b) since [fiscal year 2000] that concerns any special access program relating in any way to unidentified anomalous phenomena, technologies of unknown origin, or associated material, including programs whose subject is described by cover terms.
2. Every waiver under 10 U.S.C. §119(e) affecting such programs, with the justification provided to the chair and ranking minority member of any defense committee, and the dates provided.
3. For each such program, the date of the notification required by 10 U.S.C. §119(f) and the date the program was initiated.
4. Every report under 10 U.S.C. §119(c) concerning any planned declassification or public announcement relating to such programs, including in connection with the PURSUE program.
5. Every notification under 50 U.S.C. §3373b(a)(4)(B) of an authorized disclosure relating to a restricted access, special access, or compartmented access program not explicitly and clearly reported to the congressional defense or intelligence committees.
6. The accounting of security classification guides required by section 1673 of Pub. L. No. 119-60.
7. Any report of an Antideficiency Act violation, or any determination that no report was required, relating to funds used for such programs, including under section 1687(a) of Pub. L. No. 118-31.
8. Any determination concerning the allowability of contractor independent research and development costs relating to unidentified anomalous phenomena under section 1687(b) of Pub. L. No. 118-31.
9. A list of all contractors, by contract number, that have held or now hold material or information relating to unidentified anomalous phenomena under any program, and the authority under which they hold it.
10. [For the intelligence committees:] For each intelligence or intelligence-related activity relating to unidentified anomalous phenomena, the provision of an intelligence authorization act that specifically authorized its funds as 50 U.S.C. §3094(a) requires, or, if none, the source of the funds and any determination that §3094 did not apply.
11. Every report or notification to the intelligence committees under 50 U.S.C. §§3091-3092 concerning such activities, with dates.

The Committee also requests a briefing, in a secure setting, by officials with knowledge of these matters, and requests that all records responsive to this letter be preserved, including records subject to the UAP Records Collection provisions (Pub. L. No. 118-31, §§1841-1843).

Sincerely, [Chair / Ranking Member]