Christopher Mellon
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PersonGovernment OfficialChristopher Mellon is a former senior U.S. defense and Senate intelligence official who became a leading advocate for military UAP reporting, oversight, and declassification.
Christopher Mellon is a former senior U.S. defense and Senate intelligence official who became a leading advocate for military UAP reporting, oversight, and declassification.
Christopher Mellon is an American national-security official and policy advocate who served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence and as minority staff director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. His career gave him experience with intelligence budgets, classified programs, congressional oversight, and the practical limits on information sharing across agencies.
Mellon comes from a prominent American family but built his own career through national-security and intelligence work. He served in the Defense Department and as staff director of the Senate Intelligence Committee, gaining experience with budgets, oversight, and the boundaries between congressional access and executive secrecy. After leaving government he joined public UAP efforts, helped connect military witnesses with journalists, and used his institutional fluency to translate pilot reports into policy proposals lawmakers could act upon.
After leaving government, Mellon became a central figure in the modern UAP movement. He advised To The Stars Academy and helped bring military videos and former officials into contact with journalists during the reporting that returned the subject to national attention in 2017. He has argued that repeated military encounters present flight-safety and intelligence problems regardless of origin, and he has supported better collection, protected reporting channels, and sustained congressional scrutiny.
Mellon’s defense and Senate service gave his later disclosure advocacy unusual institutional reach. He helped move military reports into public view, advised lawmakers on UAP legislation, and framed anomalous encounters as enduring flight-safety and intelligence problems. Few participants have had comparable experience translating a stigmatized operational issue into a sustained oversight agenda spanning the executive branch, Congress, and national media.
Christopher Mellon Calls Out The Wall Street Journal Over UAP Reporting
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[Retweeted] Disclosure Foundation Chairman Christopher Mellon: "The US today is faced with a serious national security challenge resulting from unidentified objects repeatedly violating US airspace. The US government admits these mysterious objects are not US aircraft and admits their origin remains unknown. These are the most critical facts the public needs to know. Efforts to obscure the truth undermine national security and reflect the worst, not the best, of American journalism." The publ...
This is absolutely on point. https://t.co/2tJ9VDBdhE [Quoted] @emmatuckerWSJ: This is not complicated. Mellon alleges a scientist’s words were used to support a conclusion about material he wasn’t discussing, and that correction requests went unanswered. @joel_schectman can explain the reporting. You can explain the editorial decision to stand by it. @WSJPR: publish the answer. It is 2026. UAP transparency commands bipartisan attention in Congress and scrutiny from former military and intelli...
Chris Mellon, via the Debrief (April 2025): "As I sometimes reminded DoD colleagues when drafting security policy for the Secretary of Defense, we certainly did [Quoted] 🧵 1/6 The Disclosure Foundation calls on The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) to correct errors in its June 2025 UAP reporting and on the National Press Club (@PressClubDC) to rescind the journalism award given to the articles’ authors. In a formal letter, Foundation Chairman Christopher Mellon (@ChrisKMellon) details concerns abo...
[Retweeted] A key statement from the Disclosure Foundation's Policy Brief No. 7: “The UAP Records Collection includes all ‘Government-funded UAP records,’ not merely ‘agency records’ as defined by other laws such as FOIA. Because FFRDCs are federally funded, their taxpayer-funded UAP records must be collected and produced pursuant to Congress’ mandate.” Authored by the Foundation's Chairman Christopher Mellon (@ChrisKMellon), Executive Director Jordan Flowers (@jordanflowers) and Chief Legal...
(Excellent work. I'll include a comment I received from Blumenthal and Kean in my next post.) "Both Dr. Davis and journalist Ralph Blumenthal subsequently rais [Quoted] 🧵 1/6 The Disclosure Foundation calls on The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) to correct errors in its June 2025 UAP reporting and on the National Press Club (@PressClubDC) to rescind the journalism award given to the articles’ authors. In a formal letter, Foundation Chairman Christopher Mellon (@ChrisKMellon) details concerns abou...
Posted by the Disclosure Foundation: Disclosure Foundation Calls on The Wall Street Journal to Correct UAP Reporting Errors, Urges National Press Club to Rescind Journalism Award I am a Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence currently serving as Chairman of the Disclosure Foundation, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization advancing the public disclosure and scientific understanding of unidentified anomalous phenomena through policy leadership, legal action, and public edu...
[Retweeted] 🧵 1/6 The Disclosure Foundation calls on The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) to correct errors in its June 2025 UAP reporting and on the National Press Club (@PressClubDC) to rescind the journalism award given to the articles’ authors. In a formal letter, Foundation Chairman Christopher Mellon (@ChrisKMellon) details concerns about misquoted sources, insufficient scrutiny of government claims, and omitted context. This thread outlines those concerns. Read our full statement and letter...
[Retweeted] 🧵 We have released a new policy brief: Policy Brief No. 7 - All Government-Funded UAP Records Belong in the UAP Records Collection at the National Archives. The policy brief is authored by Christopher Mellon (@ChrisKMellon), Jordan Flowers (@jordanflowers) and Hunt Willis. The new policy brief argues that the FY 2024 NDAA requires the National Archives’ UAP Records Collection to include not only agency records, but also government-provided and government-funded records, including...
