THE DEFENSE-INTELLIGENCE INSIDER
Mellon served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence under two administrations and worked on the Senate Intelligence Committee staff. That career gave him both the credibility and the contacts that would later matter: he understood how classified material moved through Washington, and who controlled it.
SURFACING THE NAVY VIDEOS
In 2017 Mellon joined To The Stars Academy, a private group formed to research UAP. By his own account, he received a package of military infrared videos from a Pentagon contact and helped route them — the clips now known as Tic Tac, Gimbal, and GoFast — to The New York Times. The resulting story pulled UAP from the fringe into mainstream national-security reporting, where it has stayed.
FROM LEAK TO OFFICIAL RECORD
What Mellon helped surface unofficially in 2017 is now being released officially: the Pentagon has acknowledged those same videos, and the PURSUE program is publishing tranches of declassified UAP material. The path from a parking-lot handoff to a government portal is the arc of the whole disclosure era — and Umbra is where the now-official record can be read.
> Read the now-official record he helped surface — on your iPhone.
