Christopher Mellon

Former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense; helped surface the Navy videos and pushed disclosure.

Christopher Karl Mellon is an American former Department of Defense and United States Senate civilian staff member whose career from 1985 to 2017 focused on defense and intelligence oversight. He is an advocate for transparency in government investigations of UFOs. Mellon began his career by working for the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, later serving as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence for the Clinton and Bush administrations. He helped draft legislation establishing the United States Special Operations Command and took part in a Department of Defense investigation of unidentified aerial phenomena. During his years of staff service on Capitol Hill and at the Department of Defense, Mellon worked for senators William Cohen, John Chafee, John Warner, and Jay Rockefeller, and under Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Mellon worked as part of a committee tasked with oversight of the U.S. Department of Defense's special access programs (SAPs). He was involved with the disclosure of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) and gave the Pentagon UFO videos to the New York Times as part of his broader efforts to raise awareness about UFOs.