In a Saturday piece in Politico titled “If the Government Has UFO Crash Materials, It’s Time to Reveal Them,” former Clinton and Bush Administration Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Chris Mellon says he’s referred four witnesses to the Pentagon’s new UAP research office AARO “who claim to have knowledge of a secret US government program involving the analysis and exploitation of materials recovered from off-world craft,” and others about a “secret reverse engineering program” he’s passed along to the intelligence community’s inspector general’s office as well as the staff members of the relevant Congressional committees.

Mellon, a scion of the old-breed plutocrat family (the Mellons in “Carnegie-Mellon”), doesn’t make any further or more sensational claims or get into specifics, though there’s plenty of the old “Just asking questions” in this piece. On one hand it’s certainly not unheard of for a member of a powerful dynasty to go off the reservation and deep into conspiracy batshittery (see Kennedy, Robert Fitzgerald Jr), on the other he had a high-level position at the Pentagon and held it in both Dem and Republican administrations. But so did Mike Flynn and he’s pilled as fuck nowadays.

This isn’t the first we’ve heard of alien technology in the government’s possession in the modern post-2017 “UAP” era, which began with the New York Times actually printing “Under [Bigelow Aerospace founder billionaire Robert] Bigelow’s direction, the company modified buildings in Las Vegas for the storage of metal alloys and other materials that [Military intelligence official Luis] Elizondo and program contractors said had been recovered from unidentified aerial phenomena. Researchers also studied people who said they had experienced physical effects from encounters with the objects and examined them for any physiological changes.” So it would be nice if Mellon would follow up on this at some point in the coming months. We’ll give him some benefit of the doubt until he pulls a James Comer and says he can’t find his whistleblowers.