United States.Disclosure Forum 2026 · Kennedy Caucus Room, U.S. Senate (June 25)

On June 25, 2026, the Disclosure Foundation — chaired by Christopher Mellon, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence in the Clinton and Bush administrations — convened the Disclosure Forum 2026 in the Kennedy Caucus Room of the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington D.C., from 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM, free and open to the public and livestreamed on the organization's YouTube channel. The forum was officially announced on June 23, 2026 via a press release on PR Newswire, with coverage in NewsNation, The Hill, and multiple defense media. The banner 'Humanity at the Edge of Discovery' structured panels on security and policy, science, governmental transparency, and philosophy and religion.

The gathering assembled six bipartisan legislators: Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Mike Rounds (R-SD) — the two senators who have most consistently advanced UAP provisions in the NDAA since 2021, including the UAP Disclosure Act amendment introduced by Schumer, Rounds, and Gillibrand that created the UAP Records Collection under NARA Record Group 615 and was partially gutted in legislative negotiations — alongside Representatives Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL, chair of the UAP Task Force in Oversight), Eric Burlison (R-MO), Tim Burchett (R-TN), and Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA). Expert speakers included Avi Loeb (Harvard, recently appointed as chair of the White House UAP Science Advisory Council on June 17, 2026), Harold Puthoff (EarthTech International, former scientific director of the CIA/DIA STARGATE remote-viewing program in the 1980s–90s and a central figure in informal Congressional briefings on classified UAP intelligence programs), retired Rear Admiral Timothy Gallaudet (former Acting NOAA Administrator, who has publicly stated that UAPs are of non-human origin), and historian Carlos Eire (Yale, National Book Award winner, contributing a humanistic perspective on philosophical and religious implications). Researchers from MIT and the Harvard Kennedy School also participated.

The immediate context for the forum is the third tranche of the PURSUE portal (war.gov/ufo), published on June 12, 2026 with 53 documents, 10 digital renderings, six videos and three NASA audio recordings, and the June 5 report by AARO director Jon Kosloski acknowledging that 40% of reported phenomena lack reasonable explanation. Harold Puthoff's participation is analytically notable: as former director of STARGATE and a figure linked to informal Congressional briefings on classified recovery programs (Skinwalker Ranch, AAWSAP/AATIP), his appearance at a public forum with active senators and representatives represents the most visible integration to date of the intelligence-legacy current with the formal legislative ecosystem. The simultaneous presence of Loeb — representing the scientific-empirical axis — and Puthoff — representing the classified-intelligence axis — on the same platform with active legislators is the first time both traditions have shared a public platform with sitting lawmakers in the post-PURSUE era.

The Disclosure Forum 2026 matters as an institutional convergence node, not as new material evidence. No other post-PURSUE 2026 event had simultaneously brought together the four currents that structure the UAP debate in the U.S.: the legislative current (six lawmakers from both parties, including the two senators who drafted the key NDAA provisions), the executive-scientific current (Loeb as chair of the White House UAP SAC), the intelligence-legacy current (Puthoff as former STARGATE director), and the multidisciplinary academic current (Harvard, Yale, MIT, Harvard Kennedy School). That intelligence-legacy current extends beyond those in the room: figures such as former CIA ELINT analyst John Ramirez — who publicly advances a 'controlled disclosure' thesis and a 2027 events horizon — operate in the same testimonial register outside the forum, without documentary corroboration. The Kennedy Caucus Room of the Russell Senate Office Building — the same room used for formal Senate hearings — is a marker of institutional legitimacy: choosing it over civilian spaces signals that the forum is not a marginal advocacy event but a gathering of actors who govern the institutions that control UAP information. The weight of Gillibrand and Rounds is particularly relevant: both are the legislative architects of the UAP declassification regime since 2021. Their participation in a public forum implies that the legislative pathway and the public disclosure pathway are being deliberately coordinated, and that the forum functions as an alignment space for expectations between Congress and the advocacy network. Puthoff's participation is the most informationally significant element of the epistemicStatus=developing: Puthoff has privately claimed to know the nature of classified programs; his public appearance in this context, without being under subpoena or testifying under oath, may produce actionable hints that subsequent investigation can contextualize. Analytically, the forum is the most structured manifestation of the disclosure ecosystem so far in 2026 and anticipates a possible new round of UAP legislative provisions in the FY2027 NDAA.