Section C · Former congressional staffer (Armed Services / Intelligence) · disclosure

Kirk McConnell

~37 years as adviser to the Senate and House Armed Services and Intelligence committees (SASC, SSCI, HPSCI) · compartmented clearances · retired from the Senate in 2024

Biography

A behind-the-scenes architect of the legislative oversight of the phenomenon: for nearly four decades he was one of the Senate's lead staffers on UAP, drafting and sustaining oversight mechanisms from within the committee machinery. Retired in 2024, he became a public advocate for declassification (with Coulthart, the New Paradigm Institute, forums). He is the archetype of the credible institutional insider: unlike the craft-and-bodies claimants, his public concern is secrecy and process —that society may lose the benefits of an 'exotic science' if concealment continues—, a more measured stance that, now as an advocate, remains assertion rather than evidence.

Why they're here · 2 pieces

  1. 2023

    Arquitectura legislativa UAP (Senado)

    Senior staff behind the oversight and release mechanisms of the UAP Disclosure Act / NDAA cycle

  2. 2025

    Divulgación pública post-retiro

    Goes on record about UAP secrecy and the loss of benefits from 'exotic science'

Sources

Associated cases (1)

United States.

UAP Disclosure Act 2025 (S.Amdt.3111)· 2023–26

Senate amendment S.Amdt.3111 to NDAA S.2296 (FY 2026), reintroduced in 2025 as continuation of the UAP Disclosure Act that Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) had first introduced in 2023. Co-introduced by Senators Mike Rounds (R-SD) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), co-sponsored by Marco Rubio (R-FL), Todd Young (R-IN) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM). Modeled on the 1992 JFK Assassination Records Collection Act: establishes a 9-citizen presidentially appointed Records Review Board with mandate to identify, review and declassify UAP records in federal custody. Status as of June 2026: two key provisions were removed in legislative negotiation ('gutted'), including the eminent-domain language over UAP material in private hands. One of the three formal demands from the June 9, 2026 Capitol press conference [[capitol-press-conference-2026]] is passage of the full Act.

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Synthesized bio from the UAP disclosure ecosystem — categorized by epistemological section (A-F).