Government / Military
Christopher Mellon
2017
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence; leaked the Navy "Tic Tac"/Gimbal videos to the New York Times. In 2026 said UAP incursions over U.S. military bases occur hundreds of times a year, citing one case where UAP violated airspace over Langley Air Force Base for 17 consecutive days. Has said he was two weeks from meeting a purported aerospace-industry source with direct reverse-engineering knowledge when the source died of a heart attack.
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advisor
Source: To The Stars Academy public founding disclosures (2017)
co-founded the Disclosure Foundation with him
Source: Disclosure Foundation announcements
publicized his account
Source: NYT, Dec 16 2017
left TTSA together
Source: To The Stars Academy public founding disclosures (2017)
advocated for & mediated with AARO on his behalf
Source: The Debrief, Jun 5 2023
Mellon publicly confirmed Eric Davis's authorship of the Wilson-Davis memo
Source: Wilson-Davis memo (Eric Davis notes; surfaced 2019)
his network drafted the UAPDA legislative language
Source: Reporting on UAPDA drafting (Schumer/Rounds offices; The Debrief)
his scathing open letter criticized the office she represented
clashed over Grusch's cooperation with AARO; in 2024 Kirkpatrick published their private Signal messages, and Mellon pointed to a likely Air Force 'gatekeeper' concealing the programs
Source: public Kirkpatrick-Mellon dispute, 2024; UAP roundtable podcast (program-tracker panel)