A Wisconsin congressman has introduced legislation that would allow pilots and other aviation-related employees to report UFOs without fear of professional retaliation or having their competency called into question.

Additionally, federal employees would be protected from termination or suspension of security clearances for reporting UAPs, “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” commonly known as UFOs.

Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI) introduced the bill earlier this month with Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA).  

“Since I was a child, unidentified objects in our airspace have been a topic of interest,” Grothman, who represents Wisconsin’s 6th Congressional District, said. “With the majority of Americans believing that the government has suppressed information on UAPs, our bipartisan effort highlights our need for transparency from the federal government regarding UAPs to better protect the safety and security of American citizens.” 

Known as the Safe Airspace for Americans Act, the legislation would require the administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to “establish procedures and reporting requirements for incidents relating to unidentified anomalous phenomena.”

“The bill specifically enables civilian aircrew, FAA air traffic controllers, flight attendants, maintenance workers, dispatchers, and airlines to report UAP encounters to the FAA,” Grothman’s office wrote in a statement.

Then, the FAA would be responsible for compiling “relevant communication, information, or data” on reports before sharing them with the Department of Defense’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office. The FAA would also be required to investigate any threats that may pose a problem to the national airspace system. The bill also forbids airlines from issuing cease-and-desist letters to employees or take any negative action against them. 

The legislation follows a surge of interest in Congress of UFOs, including a public hearing over the summer where commercial pilots, former military, and backers of UFO research described seeing a UFO take off at supersonic speeds and in one case claimed the government had recovered “nonhuman biologics” from a crash site. 

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“Pilots are trained observers of our skies, but I have heard from dozens of frustrated pilots for major airlines who witnessed UAP yet had no confidential way to report them to the government,” Ryan Graves, a former Navy fighter pilot and the executive director of Americans for Safe Aerospace, told Congress last summer.

According to a Redfield & Wilton Strategies poll, almost 60% of the public thinks the U.S. government has information about UFOs and aliens that they have kept secret from the public, and a little more than a third think the federal government has a nonhuman vehicle or spacecraft in its possession.