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https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dpm45/this-guy-says-he-was-the-source-of-the-pentagons-ufo-
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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.
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