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This FOIA release from DoD Washington Headquarters Services collects 2020 Pentagon public affairs and Navy emails about press queries on unidentified aerial phenomena. It includes the August 14, 2020 announcement that Deputy Secretary David Norquist had approved the UAP Task Force, and follow-ups on a CBS query about a claimed F/A-18 cellphone photo of a triangular object. It also reproduces The Debrief and Vice/Motherboard articles, and internal emails on DOPSR's handling of the Navy videos and Luis Elizondo's AATIP role.
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TTo: Stratton, John F avl SFS I JSN DCNO N2N6 ( SA) CIV OSD PA (USA) (b)(6) Subject: FW: Hmmm... https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dpm45/this-guy-says-he-was-the-source-of-the-pentagons-ufo- videos Ex Intel Official Says He Was the Source of the Pentagon's UFO Videos In the recently released UFO documentary The Phenomenon, Chris Mellon, the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, stated that he was the source who provided the New York Times with the three infamous UFO videos it published in 2017. Mellon, who is currently a member of Tom DeLonge's To the Stars Academy, told filmmaker James Fox in an on-camera interview that he met with an unnamed individual in the parking lot of the Pentagon and was handed a package containing the three videos that formed the basis of the most important UFO article in many years. "I received the videos, the now famous videos in the Pentagon parking lot from a Defense Department official. I still have the packaging," Mellon said. "This is a case where somebody bent the rules a little bit, and they did so for the larger good and we're absolutely all better off because of it." Motherboard has been unable to independently verify that Mellon was the source of the videos, but his story tracks with everything we know about them. We know that To the Stars Academy ultimately published the videos, and Mellon was one of the earliest members of that group. One of the New York Times journalists who worked on that story, Leslie Kean, also appears in the documentary. In that story, the Times unveiled a secretive Pentagon UFO program called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, or AATIP, and released videos shot by Navy pilots who intercepted a strange object off the coast of San Diego on November 14th, 2004. The pilots managed to shoot video of the object with their F-18's gun camera. Two other videos recorded on January 21st, 2015, were released showing another anomalous aerial vehicle rotating while in flight and another object quickly flying over the water below. 3
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