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Chris Mellon: "The Air Force Must Testify Under Oath"
November 25, 2025
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Christopher Mellon responds to revelations in the documentary Age of Disclosure, calling on Congress to compel Air Force leadership to testify under oath about secret UAP programs and withheld data.
Christopher K. Mellon
Chairman of the Board
In the new UAP documentary Age of Disclosure, we learn that the Air Force had a secret program to track UAP in the vicinity of Area 51 and other sensitive military facilities in the 1990s. This report comes from none other than General James Clapper, former Director of U.S. Air Force Intelligence and former Director of National Intelligence.
Does that secret Air Force UAP program continue to this day? Where is the data? What did the Air Force learn? Moreover, why is it that when Congress asked the services for UAP information in their possession in the 2020 Intelligence Authorization Bill, the Air Force denied having any pertinent information other than a handful of very recent innocuous reports?
“I believe the Air Force is treating Congress contemptuously when it comes to dodging formal congressional requests for Air Force UAP data.” — Christopher Mellon, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
Key Questions Raised
Mellon raises a series of pointed questions about Air Force transparency:
- Why did Air Force F-22s, despite having greatly superior sensors, not report UAP operating in DoD training areas off the East Coast when Navy F-18s were routinely detecting them on the same ranges?
- Why did the USS Princeton radar data from the Nimitz case disappear after U.S. Air Force officers visited the ship?
- Why are the Nimitz deck logs missing for precisely the period of Princeton UAP tracking in 2004?
- Why does the Air Force never report UAP detected by its strategic radar systems — solid state phased array radars believed to be the most powerful emitters on the planet?
- Why were none of the innumerable NORAD UAP intercept cases from recent decades submitted with the 2021 UAP report to Congress?
- Why are there no reports of UAP in space despite a massive Air Force space surveillance capability?
Call to Action
Mellon calls for Congress to place the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force, the Secretary of the Air Force, and the Director of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations under oath in a secure hearing room. In parallel, the intelligence committees should place the CIA’s Deputy Director for Science and Technology and Director of Operations under oath.
“The disinformation and withholding of vital air defense data have been allowed to continue for far too long. The solution is simple: bring the Air Force leadership to the Hill and compel them to divulge the data.” — Christopher Mellon
Since over 25 years have elapsed, the information from the 1990s should also be subject to automatic declassification. Mellon believes this would reveal incredible, possibly transformational video, radar reports, and other objective sensor data that has been hidden from Congress, the scientific community, and the American people for decades.