Former intelligence chief Christopher Mellon has said he believes the US has recovered technology that ‘did not originate on this earth’. 

Ahead of a scheduled Congress hearing about UFOs on Wednesday, Mellon said America ‘may have in our possession off-world technology recovered from someone else’s space program’. 

The 65-year-old served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence in the Clinton and Bush administrations, and he now works as a private equity investor. 

In 2020, he admitted he was the secret source who provided the New York Times with the three UFO videos it famously published in 2017.

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Christopher Mellon said he believes the US has recovered technology that ‘did not originate on this earth’. Pictured: Mellon making the claim while speaking with News Nation’s Chris Cuomo Monday night

The US Department of Defense released three declassified videos of ‘unexplained aerial phenomena’ in April 2020 of leaked videos, including the infamous ‘tictac’ UFO video published by the New York Times in 2017

Mellon said he expects some ‘new information’ will surface at the House Oversight Committee hearing on unidentified aerial phenomena – or UFOs – which will also be attended by Air Force and intelligence agency veteran David Grusch on Wednesday. 

‘I expect Dave will provide some new information that we have not heard before,’ Mellon told NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo on Monday evening. 

‘The objective here, I think, and the opportunity, is for the American people to come to better understand why it is that so many in Congress actually takes seriously the idea that there are UFOs, UAP (unexplained aerial phenomenon) that are violating U.S. airspace and the associated rumor, allegation, that we may have in our possession off-world technology recovered from someone else’s space program.

‘I’ve been told that we have recovered technology that did not originate on this Earth, by officials in the Department of Defense and by former intelligence officials,’ he added. 

Government officials have disputed this – in April, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick of DOD’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) told the Senate Armed Services Committee there is ‘no credible evidence thus far of extraterrestrial activity’ or ‘off-world technology’. 

But Mellon said there are ‘credible witnesses’ who are in ‘direct conflict between what Dr Kirkpatrick is saying’ 

‘Congress is in the middle and they’ve got to sort it out,’ he told Cuomo. 

In 2020, Mellon admitted he was the secret source who provided the New York Times with the three ufo videos it famously published in 2017

Air Force and intelligence agency veteran David Grusch — who in June made jaw-dropping claims of an illegal UFO crash retrieval program operating within the classified world – is one of the ‘dynamite three witnesses’ due to appear at Wednesday’s Congressional UFO hearing

Mellon suggested that AARO was not best-suited to investigating the issue of recovered technology. 

‘This is like asking the Reagan administration to investigate the Iran-Contra affair,’ he said. 

‘I think (AARO) can serve a very important purpose in terms of investigating, getting the agencies to share information, collating it, developing collection strategies – but when you’re talking about investigating this allegation of recovered materials, that’s a different matter.

‘I think Congress has to drive that investigation itself.’

Chris Mellon served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence under the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations

This will begin with Wednesday’s hearing involving three military witnesses, who Congressman Tim Burchett described as ‘dynamite witnesses’. 

‘They’re professionals. They’re military,’ the Tennessee Republican said. ‘They’re people that were there and saw what they saw.’ 

The first is Air Force and intelligence agency veteran David Grusch — whose jaw-dropping claims of an illegal UFO crash retrieval program operating within the classified world were made public this June.

The other two witnesses, announced via press release last week, will be retired US Navy veteran fighter pilots Commander David Fravor, witness to the 2004 Nimitz ‘Tic Tac’ UFO; and Lieutenant Ryan Graves, whose Naval squadron captured the infamous GIMBAL and GOFAST UFOs on infra-red video in 2015. 

In April 2020, the Pentagon officially released three videos taken by US Navy pilots that reportedly show ‘unexplained aerial phenomena’.

The footage that had been previously acknowledged as real by the Navy, capture what pilots recorded on their video sensors during training flights in 2004 and 2015.

Two of the clips were those given by Mellon to the New York Times, and the third was leaked via To The Stars Academy in 2018 – a group founded by Blink-182 guitarist Tom DeLonge which specializes in unexplained phenomenon. 

Tennessee Republican Congressman Tim Burchett, who serves on the House Oversight committee, will lead next week’s open UFO hearing, July 26th, which he said had been undermined by Pentagon and US Intelligence Community efforts to ‘continuously block things’

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Chris Mellon, revealed in 2020 documentary The Phenomenon that he was the source who provided the New York Times with three now-infamous videos of UFOs the outlet published in 2017

One of the clips shows the notorious 2004 ‘Tic Tac’ incident that was recorded over the Pacific Ocean. A second video was captured off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, in 2015.

Several months after those videos were published, To The Stars Academy released an additional video from the 2015 incident, which features a navy pilot remarking: ‘What the f**k is that thing?’

DOD officials said they released the videos ‘in order to clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real, or whether or not there is more to the videos’.