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Chris Mellon

Former Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

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Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence under Clinton and George W. Bush. Pivotal figure in getting the three Pentagon UAP videos (FLIR1, Gimbal, GoFast) to the New York Times in 2017, triggering the modern disclosure era. Has testified and briefed Congress multiple times on UAP.

Credentials

  • -Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
  • -Staff Director, Senate Intelligence Committee
  • -Source for 2017 NYT UAP story
  • -Featured in The Age of Disclosure

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Connected Cases

Officially Confirmed
AATIP & The 2017 New York Times Disclosure
2017-12-16Washington D.C. / New York
High Credibility
The Suppression Architecture — How the Cover-Up Works as a System
1953-01-01United States — systemic
High Credibility
The Financial Architecture — $21 Trillion, Black Budgets, and the Profit Motive for Secrecy
1947-01-01United States — systemic
Officially Confirmed
US Navy Establishes Formal UAP Reporting — Institutional Acknowledgment (2019)
2019-04-01United States Department of the Navy
Officially Confirmed
The Money Map — Defense Contractor Dollars vs. UAP Disclosure Votes
2023-12-01United States Congress / FEC / OpenSecrets.org
High Credibility
The Corporate Genealogy — Mapping Where the Programs Actually Live
1947-01-01Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Raytheon, Battelle, SAIC — United States
Officially Confirmed
The Terminated Studies Pattern — Every Government Investigation Killed When It Produced Results
1947-01-01United States — systemic
Officially Confirmed
The Classification Ratchet — Documents Go Up, Not Down
1953-01-01United States — systemic
High Credibility
The Inter-Agency Jurisdictional War — Who Owns the UFO Problem
1947-06-01United States — CIA, Air Force, Navy, DIA
High Credibility
The Foreign Intelligence Mirror — The US Tracked Other Nations' UFO Programs While Denying Its Own
1950-01-01Global — US intelligence collection on allied and adversary UAP programs
High Credibility
The Whistleblower Corroboration Web — Separated by Decades, Describing the Same Program
1989-01-01United States — multiple facilities and programs
Officially Confirmed
The Five Observables — The Pentagon's Own Framework for What UAP Do
2017-12-16United States — analytical framework
Moderate
The Entertainment Briefing Pipeline — Hollywood as Disclosure Vehicle
1977-01-01Hollywood, California / Washington DC
High Credibility
The Mass Awakening — Measurable Data Showing the Network Coming Back Online
2026-04-30Global — measurable across government, media, social platforms, legislation, and geophysics

Evidence

The Age of Disclosure (2025)

Documentary featuring interviews with 34 senior members of the US government, military, and intelligence communities about the UAP cover-up. Includes Secretary of State Marco Rubio, former DNI James Clapper, Colonel Karl Nell, Chris Mellon, Lue Elizondo, Jay Stratton, Hal Puthoff, Tim Gallaudet, Ryan Graves, Alex Dietrich, and members of Congress. Hit #1 on Amazon Prime at launch. Screened for members of Congress.

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Lue Elizondo on 60 Minutes — AATIP Disclosure

Former AATIP director Lue Elizondo appears on 60 Minutes alongside former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Chris Mellon. Discusses the Pentagon's UAP investigation program, confirms the Navy videos are authentic, and states the objects demonstrate technology beyond known human capability. This 60 Minutes segment brought UAP into mainstream national conversation.

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Christopher Mellon — Former Deputy ASDIA on UAP Reality

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Christopher Mellon has been one of the most persistent establishment figures pushing for disclosure. He was instrumental in getting the Pentagon UAP videos to the New York Times in 2017, briefed congressional committees, and publicly stated that the military is encountering technology 'far beyond our own.' Mellon's family legacy (Mellon banking dynasty) and his senior Pentagon role give his advocacy unusual weight.

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Tom DeLonge — TTSA Formation and Pentagon Insider Access

Blink-182 co-founder Tom DeLonge announced To The Stars Academy with a team including Luis Elizondo (AATIP), Chris Mellon (Deputy ASDIA), Hal Puthoff (CIA/Stargate), Jim Semivan (CIA), and Steve Justice (Lockheed Skunk Works). The Podesta WikiLeaks emails revealed DeLonge had been meeting with senior military and intelligence officials for years. TTSA became the vehicle that released the Pentagon UAP videos to the New York Times. Whatever one thinks of DeLonge, the caliber of people who joined his organization speaks to the reality of what they were disclosing.

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