Christopher Mellon
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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among those who formed itUnidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparencyprinted p. 14 checked against the pageCaveat Fravor's testimony places Mellon among those who formed To The Stars Academy. Advisor is a different relationship to an organisation, not a narrower version of the same one, and the document supports the stronger role. The advisor title comes from TTSA's own 2017 disclosures and is not in this record. Operator decision, 2026-08-21.scope: scoped · reviewed 2026-08-21 · decided by the operator
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The claim we testedMellon publicly confirmed Eric Davis's authorship of the Wilson-Davis memoWhat the document actually says- Christopher Mellon is not named anywhere in the pages read.EWD Notes - Eric Davis meeting with Adm. Wilson, 16 October 2002, 2002
printed p. 1 · read off the page footerWhy we refused it. A 2019-and-later public confirmation cannot be in a 2002 document. This needs Mellon's own statement as its source. -
publicized his accountNYT, Dec 16 2017
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left TTSA togetherTo The Stars Academy public founding disclosures (2017)
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co-founded the Disclosure Foundation with himDisclosure Foundation announcements
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his network drafted the UAPDA legislative languageReporting on UAPDA drafting (Schumer/Rounds offices; The Debrief)
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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 programspublic Kirkpatrick-Mellon dispute, 2024; UAP roundtable podcast (program-tracker panel)
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advocated for & mediated with AARO on his behalfThe Debrief, Jun 5 2023
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worked alongside
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his scathing open letter criticized the office she represented
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