Christopher Mellon is a former U.S. government intelligence official and prominent UAP disclosure advocate. He served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence under Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush and later as staff director of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Role in UAP Disclosure
Mellon is Chairman of the disclosure-foundation and one of the most active congressional liaisons in the UAP disclosure movement. He worked alongside lue-elizondo and david-grusch to bring UAP concerns to Congress, including facilitating media coverage of the 2017 AATIP revelations. He was a co-author of the sol-foundation joint statement welcoming pursue Release 01 and has consistently argued that data alone is insufficient without acknowledgment of underlying programs.
His oft-quoted formulation — “data alone is not disclosure” — defines his critique of the pursue portal: that releasing encounter reports and historical footage leaves classified special access programs (where recovered craft and reverse-engineering would reside) entirely untouched. Per src-liberation-times-two-senators-uap-2026-06, this framing was central to post-PURSUE Release 01 criticism.
Public Record
- Testified or briefed Congress on UAP matters multiple times (2017–2026)
- Confirmed speaker at Disclosure Forum 2026 (June 25, 2026, Russell Senate Building) per src-disclosure-forum-2026-06
- Cited in src-defensescoop-pursue-not-disclosure-2026-05 on-record in post-Release 01 reaction roundup
- Co-authored src-sol-foundation-disclosure-statement-2026-05 with tim-gallaudet and garry-nolan