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Former Pentagon intelligence official who helped bring the Navy videos to the press.

Mellon was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence under Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush, and earlier was staff director of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

He has said he helped get the Nimitz and Gimbal videos to the New York Times in 2017, and he has since pushed Congress for UAP reporting rules and the UAP Disclosure Act.

Case files

• The Nimitz encounter November 14, 2004
• Gimbal January 2015

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