Mellon on the Majestic documents
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| Date | September 2022 |
|---|---|
| People | Christopher Mellon |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 209 |
| Year | 2022 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2022 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 7 |
In a 2022 interview with journalist Linda Moulton Howe, former Pentagon official Christopher Mellon said the Majestic 12 (MJ-12) documents were very controversial and that he had heard varying explanations for them, including that they were forgeries.[1]
Mellon
Mellon served as minority staff director of the Senate Intelligence Committee and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence from 1999 to 2002, where he oversaw special access programmes. He became a leading advocate of UAP transparency, supplying material for the 2017 New York Times story on the Pentagon's AATIP programme while an adviser to To The Stars Academy, and later writing in support of congressional investigation.[1][2]
The MJ-12 documents
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The MJ-12 papers, which purport to describe a secret committee formed under President Truman in 1947 to manage recovered alien craft, reached researchers from 1984. In 1988 the FBI called them "completely bogus" after the Air Force found no record of such a committee, and in 1995 the General Accounting Office found no evidence they were genuine executive-branch documents. Researchers have identified a photocopied Truman signature and other signs of forgery; others argue some may have been Cold War disinformation.[3][4]
Significance
Mellon's cautious comments reflect the general view among prominent UAP advocates that the MJ-12 papers cannot be relied upon, whatever their origin. In 2022, the same year as the interview, the disputed Wilson–Davis notes were entered into the record of a House intelligence subcommittee hearing, showing that other contested documents were still shaping the debate.[3][5]
People and topics
- Christopher Mellon — Former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence who helped release the Navy UAP videos.
- MJ-12 — Disputed documents describing a secret committee managing crashed saucers.
- Federal Bureau of Investigation — The U.S. federal police agency, which helped check flying disc reports from 1947 to 1950.
- Air Force Office of Special Investigations — The Air Force's criminal investigation and counterintelligence agency.
- Disinformation — False information spread deliberately to mislead.
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
On the Timeline
- Mellon on off-the-books operation allegations (September 2022) — Mellon says there are many allegations of an off-the-books aerospace UAP operation.
- Mellon on conflicting insider claims (September 2022) — Mellon says credible people claim a cover-up, and equally credible people deny it.
See every 2022 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- "Linda interviews Christopher Mellon, former Deputy Asst. Sec. of Defense for Intelligence 1999–2002", Earthfiles (YouTube) · youtu.be · archived copy
- Christopher Mellon — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Majestic 12 — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- GAO, "[Comments on Majestic 12 material]" (Jul 1995) · gao.gov · archived copy
- "Davis–Wilson memo timeline", daviswilsonmemo.github.io · daviswilsonmemo.github.io · archived copy
- How the FBI debunked the MJ-12 papers — Atlas Obscura · atlasobscura.com · archived copy
- youtu.be · youtu.be · archived copy
Further reading
- Majestic 12 file — FBI Vault · vault.fbi.gov · archived copy
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