Case file · Disclosure & CE-5
Christopher Mellon
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Senate Intelligence Committee staffer who became a leading advocate of UAP transparency.
2017 CE · 38.89, -77.01 · status: account
The account
Mellon's career from 1985 to 2017 centred on defence and intelligence oversight, including special access programmes; he served under Clinton and Bush and worked for several senators. He helped bring AATIP to light and gave the Navy videos to The New York Times. He has since written in favour of better UAP reporting and spoke at the Sol Foundation's 2023 symposium.
The sceptical view
Mellon is careful in his claims, but critics note that the videos he helped publicise have mundane candidate explanations.
Connections in the atlas
- Sol Foundation symposium at Stanford
- 'The Age of Disclosure' (film)
- To The Stars Academy publicises the Navy videos
- Luis Elizondo
- AATIP (Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program)
- The New York Times reveals AATIP
- USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac'