Rounds, Mike (R-SD)

Term: 2015-Present

Senate Armed Services Committee (2015-Present)

07-14-2023	Rounds: “Our goal is to assure credibility with regard to any investigation or record keeping of materials associated with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena,” “Relevant documents related to this issue should be preserved. Providing a central collection location and reputable review board to maintain the records adds to the credibility of any future investigations.”
07-20-2023	Matt Laslo: "I'm just curious, who wrote that bill? Because people were curious about the language that was used." Mike Rounds: "It was a joint effort. Why did it look kind of like somebody had tried to create a cow and came up with a horse or something?" ML: "I'm trying to look it up, the term they used, but it was used like 22 times and-" MR: "There was direct participation between the organizations that currently have to cooperate in this, but we tried to bring a number of different entities in for a discussion so that it wasn't a surprise to anybody." ML: "I think it might be the term non-human intelligence, I think that might be used 22 times." ML: "Well, pretty simple terms, aren't they?" ML: "But could that be AI?" MR: "Could be." ML: "Non-human?" MR: "It could be." ML: "Really?" MR: "Yeah." ML: "So it's that broad." MR: "Well, could be. It was not by accident, let's put it that way."
07-23-2023	Rounds said he has seen “no evidence personally” that extraterrestrial craft are visiting the planet but said, “I know that there’s a lot of people that have questions about it.” “It’s just like with JFK and the [1963] assassination. We set up separate archive for that or central collection place for all that data, which I think gave the American people a sense of security that there was a location where it was being held. This is following that same approach,” Asked about whether he personally believes military personnel and sensors are encountering extraterrestrial visitors, Rounds said: “I don’t think you can discount the possibility just simply because of the size of the universe.” “I don’t think anybody should say that they know for certain either way,” he said. “If we simply refuse to acknowledge there’s even a remote possibility, then we’re probably not being honest.” “Some of the items we simply can’t explain,” he said of the Naval videos of UAPs.
Last week of July 2023	Rounds: “I had one classified briefing with Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, director of All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office.”