H.R. 5060 (UAP Whistleblower Protection Act)

H.R. 5060 was introduced in the House on 29 August 2025 by Rep. Tim Burchett, with Mrs. Luna, and was immediately assigned to the Oversight, Armed Services, and Intelligence (Permanent Select) committees by Speaker referral as part of the same action.¹²

The bill is short-titled the UAP Whistleblower Protection Act and states that it protects federal personnel who disclose the use of federal taxpayer money to evaluate or research unidentified anomalous phenomenon material.²³

Its introduced text adds UAP-related disclosure categories to existing federal whistleblower protections, including civil service, FBI, Department of Defense service members, federal contractors, and intelligence community personnel provisions in several federal code sections.⁴

  Source and claim origin

Primary claim origin is the official Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5060 and the official introduced text packet for the same bill number.¹²³

Committee routing and action provenance comes from the Congress.gov action and committee subsections, while sponsor progression and cosponsor history come from the bill summary pages tied to the same bill identifier.¹⁵⁶

  Evidentiary lineage

The core claim trail is:

1. Bill identity and status are defined in the official Congress.gov overview and all-information pages, which list sponsor, committees, and the Introduced status.¹²
2. The legal form and operative language are taken from the introduced PDF of H.R. 5060.⁴
3. Committee placement is verified on the Congress.gov committees page and cross-checked by the all-actions table where each referral date matches 08/29/2025.⁵⁶
4. Support trajectory is verified from the cosponsors page showing the initial original cosponsor and a later add-on cosponsor on 09/09/2025.⁷

  Status changes by date

As of the latest action record captured in this scope, H.R. 5060 remains in the Introduced phase with no floor passage, Senate action, or law-stage movement.¹²⁶

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