Christopher Mellon
Christopher Mellon | |
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 Mellon in October 2017 | |
| Born | Christopher Karl Mellon October 2, 1957 Topeka, Kansas, United States |
| Education | Colby College, Yale University |
| Occupation(s) | Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Staff Director of the Senate Intelligence Committee |
| Years active | 1985-2004 |
| Organization(s) | Department of Defense, United States Senate |
| Relatives | Judge Thomas Mellon, Andrew Mellon, Matthew Mellon, Richard Mellon Scaife, Paul Mellon |
| Family | Mellon family |
| Awards | The Secretary of Defense Meritorious Public Service Award, The Secretary of Defense Outstanding Public Service Award, The National Reconnaissance Office Gold Medal, The Defense Intelligence Agency Director’s Medal, The National Imagery and Mapping Agency Medallion for Excellence |
| Website | christophermellon.net |
Christopher Karl Mellon (born October 2, 1957),UAP.[3]
Early life and education
Christopher Mellon was born to the
Mellon Bank of Pittsburgh.[4][5] He received a B.A. in economics from Colby College in 1980 and a master's degree from Yale University in international relations, with a concentration in finance and management
, in 1984.
Political career
Mellon served for 12 years in a variety of positions on
John D. Rockefeller, IV from 2002 to 2004.[6]
Mellon was a lobbyist through an LLC named Mellon Strategic Consulting LLC from 2005 through 2009.[7]
In 2020, Mellon, along with over 130 other former Republican national security officials, signed a statement that asserted that
President Trump was unfit to serve another term, and "To that end, we are firmly convinced that it is in the best interest of our nation that Vice President Joe Biden be elected as the next President of the United States, and we will vote for him."[8]
UFO/UAP work
In a 2016 interview with
History that distributes the shows series Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation.[13]
Mellon was featured in the 2020
New York Times on December 17, 2017: "Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious UFO Program".[15] In the documentary, Mellon claims he met with an individual in the parking lot of the Pentagon and was handed a package containing three videos recorded by U. S. Navy pilots between 2004 and 2015.[16]
Mellon was featured on episode #1645 of the
Joe Rogan Experience on May 5, 2021.[17]
In 2023, Mellon penned an opinion piece for Politico, expressing his desire for Congress' investigation into UFO claims to move forward.[18] He also told media that he backed some of the claims made by David Grusch in a 2023 United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability hearing, and said that "rightly or wrongly, a number of potential sources do not trust the leadership of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office established by Congress.”[19]
See also
References
- ^ "United States Public Records". FamilySearch.
- ^ "Christopher Mellon". History TV channel. Retrieved June 2, 2023.
- ^ Bender, Bryan (May 28, 2021). "How Harry Reid, a Terrorist Interrogator and the Singer From Blink-182 Took UFOs Mainstream". Politico. Retrieved June 2, 2023.
- ^ "Mellons* in Pittsburgh," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- ^ Fitzpatrick, Dan, "Mellon family's legacy lives on Archived 2011-05-22 at the Wayback Machine," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- ^ "Christopher Mellon". Archived from the original on 14 November 2004. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
- ^ A 501tax-exempt, OpenSecrets; NW, charitable organization 1300 L. St; Washington, Suite 200; info, DC 20005 telelphone857-0044. "Mellon Strategic Consulting Lobbyists". OpenSecrets. Retrieved 2021-10-26.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Former Republican National Security Officials for Biden". Defending Democracy Together. 20 August 2020. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
- ^ "Is There A UFO Cover-up? A Government Insider Speaks Out". HuffPost. 2016-05-09. Retrieved 2021-10-26.
- ^ a b "How government over-classification may hide UFO videos and harm our security". 6 March 2022.
- ^ Mellon, Christopher (March 9, 2018). "The military keeps encountering UFOs. Why doesn't the Pentagon care? - We have no idea what's behind these weird incidents because we're not investigating". The Washington Post. Retrieved March 14, 2018.
- ^ "To The Stars Academy". To the Stars. October 10, 2017. Archived from the original on August 7, 2018. Retrieved March 14, 2018.
- ^ a b c Keith Kloor: The Media Loves This UFO Expert Who Says He Worked for an Obscure Pentagon Program. Did He?, The Intercept, 1 June 2019
- ^ Horton, Adrian (2020-10-07). "'It's not a question of belief': the film examining government UFO records". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2020-10-07. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
- ^ Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program
- ^ Banias, MJ (October 20, 2020). "Ex Intel Official Says He Was the Source of the Pentagon's UFO Videos". www.vice.com. Archived from the original on 2020-10-20. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
- ^ "The Joe Rogan Experience #1645 - Christopher Mellon". Spotify. May 5, 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-05-05.
- ^ "If the Government Has UFO Crash Materials, It's Time to Reveal Them". POLITICO. 2023-06-03. Retrieved 2023-07-31.
- ^ Kean, Leslie; Blumenthal, Ralph; Blumenthal, Leslie Kean and Ralph (2023-06-05). "Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin". The Debrief. Retrieved 2023-07-31.
External links
- "Panelist" at the Wayback Machine (archived November 14, 2004), Harvard Law School
- Mellon, Christopher (2023-06-05). "If the Government Has UFO Crash Materials, It's Time to Reveal Them". Politico.