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Christopher Mellon says he passed the Navy UAP videos to the New York Times

When: Oct 2020
Sources: 1 public source

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Christopher Mellon Max Moszkowicz, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Christopher Mellon said in the documentary The Phenomenon that he received the three Navy videos from a Defense Department contact and gave them to the Times for its 2017 story. The Times said DoD was its on-record source.

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PressEx Intel Official Says He Was the Source of the Pentagon's UFO Videos (opens in a new tab)Vice (Motherboard) / 2020-10-20

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This reports on AATIP revealed by the New York Times (16 Dec 2017).

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