MITRE Moves to Comply With Congressional Request for UAP Records Dating Back to 1930

DefenseScoop is reporting that MITRE has confirmed it is reviewing its archives in response to a production request from Rep. Eric Burlison for UAP-related records, data, materials, contract deliverables, and program information dating back to 1930.

This is significant because the request is not just about public-facing UFO videos or already declassified files. It appears to target the deeper contractor and FFRDC layer where government-funded records, technical datasets, program documents, metadata, and classified or sponsor-controlled materials may exist.

According to the report, Burlison’s May 22 letter asks MITRE to determine whether MITRE, any MITRE-operated federally funded research and development center, or any MITRE subcontractor has created, received, maintained, analyzed, transferred, destroyed, withheld, or otherwise controlled information relating to UAP, unidentified aerospace or undersea phenomena, transmedium events, technologies of unknown origin, anomalous recovered materials, foreign material acquisition or exploitation, or alleged legacy crash-retrieval and reverse-engineering programs.

The article also says MITRE stated that if relevant material is found, it will coordinate with the responsible federal agencies to determine how to provide any assets.

What stands out is the level of specificity in the request. It reportedly asks for records-location indexes, preservation holds, unclassified records in native electronic format with metadata, identification of classified or sponsor-controlled materials, and a classified briefing for cleared committee staff.

This is the kind of direction the disclosure conversation probably needs to move in: away from ambiguous “unidentified” clips and toward records, metadata, contracts, custody, raw data, and program accountability.

If claims about recovered craft, anomalous materials, reverse-engineering programs, or hidden UAP-related records are serious, then the real question is not whether another old PDF can be placed on a public portal.

The question is who holds the underlying records, who paid for the work, which contractors were involved, what was transferred or destroyed, and which classification authorities control the material.

This does not prove that MITRE has anything extraordinary. But it is a serious oversight request aimed at the infrastructure where such records would plausibly exist if the claims are true.

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DefenseScoop: MITRE moves to comply with lawmaker’s request for UAP records and assets dating back to 1930