Profile · United States
Christopher Mellon
Former DASD Intelligence TTSA Co-founder Public Commentator 🇺🇸 United States
In Brief
Christopher K. Mellon served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence in the Clinton and Bush administrations from 1998 to 2002, after twenty-one years on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Minority Staff, rising to Minority Staff Director.
He co-founded To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science in 2017 with Tom DeLonge, Luis Elizondo, Hal Puthoff and others. He is the senior former DoD intelligence official who brokered the public release of the FLIR1, GIMBAL and GOFAST Navy gun-camera videos through the 16 December 2017 New York Times AATIP article. He has been the most consistent senior former-government voice on the post-2017 disclosure question.
Notable Statement
"The Department of Defense and the intelligence community know more about this subject than they are telling Congress, and Congress knows more than it is telling the American people. That has to change."
Where to Find Them
In the Archive
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