Christopher Mellon

Christopher Mellon is a former senior U.S. intelligence official with extensive national-security expertise. A member of the prominent Mellon family, he served under Presidents Clinton and Bush as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and as Minority Staff Director of the Senate Intelligence Committee under Senator John D. Rockefeller IV. Since the mid-2010s he has become one of the most influential voices for UAP transparency, playing a decisive role in bringing Pentagon videos of Navy pilot encounters to the public.

• Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence under Clinton and Bush
• Minority Staff Director of the Senate Intelligence Committee under Senator Rockefeller IV
• Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Policy
• Coordinator for Advanced Concepts and Program Integration in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
• Helped bring Pentagon UFO videos from Navy pilots to public attention; cooperation with AATIP (2007–2012)
• Co-founder of the To The Stars Academy with Tom DeLonge
• Contributed to language in the National Defense Authorization Act FY 2021 directing the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense to produce UAP analysis

Mellon is the political architect of transparency legislation: he ensures that the UAP debate does not merely appear as a leak in the press, but is formalised as a paragraph in the NDAA and as a statutory duty of the intelligence community. In combination with the Mellon name and his Senate connections, he lends the topic the establishment legitimacy that media appearances alone cannot provide.