Senator Mike Rounds, a Republican member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, was asked about UAP issues in an interview published September 26 by journalist Matt Laslo's Ask a Pol outlet. When the discussion turned to a claim that advanced Chinese technology caused a 17-day interruption of operations around Langley in 2023, Rounds said he could not discuss it at that time.
Rounds also said that most of the material in the Pentagon's six public UAP release tranches contained nothing he considered new. He linked his broader interest in the subject to his proposed PASS Act, which addresses reports near sensitive national-security locations. Those remarks are political and oversight comments, not a declassification or an intelligence assessment.
The interview supplies no documents, sensor data or official statement establishing what caused the 2023 disruptions. Rounds' refusal to answer is not confirmation of the allegation. It is relevant as a record of a committee member's public posture, but the underlying claim remains unverified in the material published with the interview.