Mike Gallagher

Former Wisconsin congressman who pressed the Pentagon at the 2022 UAP hearing and co-wrote the UAP reporting-system amendment; out of Congress since April 2024.

Current role: Head of defense at Palantir Technologies (role last confirmed January 2026); former U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 8th district (resigned April 2024). No role in the UAP conversation since leaving Congress

Former roles:

U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 8th district (2017–2024)
Chair, House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (2023–2024)
Member, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

Background

Former Marine intelligence officer who represented Wisconsin's 8th district from 2017 until his resignation took effect on 24 April 2024. On the House Intelligence Committee he questioned Pentagon officials at the May 2022 UAP hearing, the first public congressional hearing on the subject in more than fifty years, and with Rep. Ruben Gallego wrote the FY2023 NDAA amendment that created a secure reporting system for UAP with protections for those who use it. After leaving the House he joined Palantir as head of defense (Wikipedia). He appears in the 2025 documentary The Age of Disclosure but has made no located public statements on UAP since 2023.

On the record

2023-06-27 – Pat McAfee Show, as reported by Newsweek – "The biggest source of resistance is just people [are] almost sort of embarrassed to talk about the topic," and "They think they're going to be labeled a crazy, tin foil hat, conspiracy theory, loony tunes person. So just by having these discussions out in the open, I think it goes a long way." Also: "Most of the resistance is just from the bureaucracy in the defense department and in the intelligence community". Newsweek
2022-07-13 – House floor – the Gallagher–Gallego amendment to the House FY2023 NDAA was adopted by voice vote as part of an en bloc package. It directed a secure system for reporting UAP and related government or contractor activity, authorised such reports notwithstanding prior nondisclosure agreements, and shielded compliant reports from prosecution for transmitting classified information. The provisions became law in the FY2023 NDAA. The Hill · The War Zone · Amendment text
2022-05-17 – House Intelligence Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence and Counterproliferation subcommittee hearing – pressed Under Secretary Ronald Moultrie and Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray on the department's knowledge of UAP, including the 1967 Malmstrom AFB incident and the status of AATIP-era documents. Video

Responses and criticism

2026-09-14 – The Black Vault noted that the reporting-and-NDA protections Gallagher's amendment put into the FY2023 NDAA (Sec. 1673, now 50 U.S.C. 3373b) already covered what the Department of War's September 2026 PURSUE waiver announced as new. The Black Vault

Timeline of involvement

2017-01-03 – takes office in the House
2022-05-17 – questions DoD officials at the House Intelligence UAP hearing
2022-07-13 – House adopts the Gallagher–Gallego UAP reporting amendment
2022-12 – reporting system and protections enacted in the FY2023 NDAA
2023-06-27 – Pat McAfee Show remarks on stigma and bureaucratic resistance
2024-04-24 – resignation from the House takes effect
2024 – joins Palantir as head of defense
2025 – appears in The Age of Disclosure documentary

Relevant links

Part of the Key People in Disclosure series. Verified 2026-10-10. Spotted an error? Reach out.