Documents / FOIA release

Mellon Publication Approval Process Docs 5-31-2022-1-17-2024 (FOIA 25-F-1324)

Office of the Secretary of Defense · 2025 · 34 pages · text from the file's own layer

This 2025 Office of the Secretary of Defense FOIA release (25-F-1324) collects Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review records on Christopher Mellon's submissions, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, from 2022 to 2024. His article "The Next Step: UAPs in Space and America's New Sputnik Moment" was cleared in July 2022, and his speech "UAPs and ET" was cleared as amended for accuracy. His foreword to Luis Elizondo's book was cleared in January 2024.

(b)(6)
(b)(6)
(b)(6)
Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review
Pentagon
Unclass Tel:
SIPR: (b)(6)
(b)(6)
new case from DOPSR/DOPSR ref (b)(4);
(b)(3):
17 -2014
(b)(6) CIV WHS ESD (USA)
Mon 6/6/2022 2:15 PM
(b)(6)
To: (b)(6) CIV USAF SAF-PA (USA)
(b)(6)
(b)(6) (b)(6) IV USAF SAF-PA (USA)
2 attachments (307 KB)
America's New Sputnik May 31st.pdf; Form373_22-S-2014_USAF.pdf;
Please find attached, document entitled "The Next Step: UAPs in Space and America's New Sputnik
Moment," DOPSR reehr 3)1;. -2014, which is being submitted for review. The requested suspense date is 17
June. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Thanks!
Regards,
JWICS: (b)(6)
How am I doing?
https://ice.disa.mil/index.cfm?fa=card&sp=1391338ts=1108zdep=*DoD

Not linked to a story yet.

About this file

FOIA release, from the osd collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 34 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.