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Elizondo resigned from the [[Department of Defense]] effective October 4, 2017 per the Pentagon; his resignation letter to Defense Secretary James Mattis cited "bureaucratic challenges and inflexible mindsets" (Kloor, 2019), and *The Intercept* noted the letter does not mention AATIP or Elizondo's role as its director.[^2][^8] On October 4, 2017, at Mellon's request, Kean was called to a meeting in the bar of a hotel near the Pentagon, where Puthoff and Semivan introduced her to Elizondo, whose last day at the Pentagon had been the previous day, according to the account Kean gave [[Gideon Lewis-Kraus]] of *[[The New Yorker]]*. Over three hours she was taken through documents. Lewis-Kraus wrote that Kean "was told that she could have the videos, along with chain-of-custody documentation, if she could place a story in the Times."[^4] Kean later gave "all the credit to Elizondo and Mellon for coming forward."[^4]
After Elizondo left the Pentagon he and the other AATIP participants named above joined [[To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science]]. At the company's launch event in October 2017 (reported as October 11) DeLonge invited Elizondo onstage and Elizondo announced that the group was "planning to provide never-before-released footage from real [[U.S. government]] systems."[^4][^9]
After Elizondo left the Pentagon he and the other AATIP participants named above joined [[To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science]]. At the company's launch event in October 2017 DeLonge invited Elizondo onstage and Elizondo announced that the group was "planning to provide never-before-released footage from real [[U.S. government]] systems."[^4]
Kean telephoned Blumenthal, an old friend and former Times staffer then at work on a biography of the [[Harvard University|Harvard]] psychiatrist [[John E. Mack]]. Blumenthal e-mailed executive editor [[Dean Baquet]] to say they wanted to pitch "a sensational and highly confidential time-sensitive story" in which a "senior U.S. intelligence official who abruptly quit last month" had decided to expose "a deeply secret program, long mythologized but now confirmed." After a meeting with representatives of the Times's Washington bureau, the paper agreed and assigned Cooper, its Pentagon correspondent.[^4] Bender wrote in 2021 that Mellon, "by then also a paid adviser to DeLonge's TTSA," acted as Elizondo's "unofficial public relations manager" and "started dangling the story to the New York Times, POLITICO and several other mainstream outlets," over several months; that reporters were shown the videos and unclassified documents on Bigelow's contracts; that the Times "was granted permission to broadcast the videos"; and that Politico "was shown the videos but not provided copies."[^6]
### The videos
The Times article carried two videos, "FLIR1" and "[[GIMBAL]]," captioned "U.S. Department of Defense" and described as "released by the Defense Department's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program"; the third, "GOFAST," was published in March 2018, according to The Black Vault.[^4][^10] In a 2020 interview for the documentary *[[The Phenomenon (2020 film)|The Phenomenon]]*, Mellon said: "I received the videos, the now famous videos in the Pentagon parking lot from a Defense Department official. I still have the packaging." He added that "somebody bent the rules a little bit, and they did so for the larger good." *[[Vice]]* reported it could not independently verify the account.[^11]
The Times article carried two videos, "FLIR1" and "[[GIMBAL]]," captioned "U.S. Department of Defense" and described as "released by the Defense Department's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program"; the third, "GOFAST," was published in March 2018, according to The Black Vault.[^4][^9] In a 2020 interview for the documentary *[[The Phenomenon (2020 film)|The Phenomenon]]*, Mellon said: "I received the videos, the now famous videos in the Pentagon parking lot from a Defense Department official. I still have the packaging." He added that "somebody bent the rules a little bit, and they did so for the larger good." *[[Vice]]* reported it could not independently verify the account.[^10]
Bender wrote in 2021 that reporters "were shown the declassified videos," and quoted Mellon: "A huge breakthrough occurred because the Navy was confirming the videos were authentic and declassified on the Hill."[^6]
The Navy's formal position on release changed twice. Sherwood told Kloor in 2019 that the videos were released "for research purposes ... and not for general public release."[^2] On April 27, 2020 the Department of Defense issued a "Statement by the Department of Defense on the Release of Historical Navy Videos," which read that the department "has authorized the release of three unclassified Navy videos, one taken in November 2004 and the other two in January 2015, which have been circulating in the public domain after unauthorized releases in 2007 and 2017," and that the aerial phenomena "remain characterized as 'unidentified.'"[^10] A [[Galileo Project]] announcement of October 30, 2021 credited Mellon and Elizondo with being "pivotal in bringing about the Pentagon's release and confirmation" of the three videos.[^12]
The Navy's formal position on release changed twice. Sherwood told Kloor in 2019 that the videos were released "for research purposes ... and not for general public release."[^2] On April 27, 2020 the Department of Defense issued a "Statement by the Department of Defense on the Release of Historical Navy Videos," which read that the department "has authorized the release of three unclassified Navy videos, one taken in November 2004 and the other two in January 2015, which have been circulating in the public domain after unauthorized releases in 2007 and 2017," and that the aerial phenomena "remain characterized as 'unidentified.'"[^9] A [[Galileo Project]] announcement of October 30, 2021 credited Mellon and Elizondo with being "pivotal in bringing about the Pentagon's release and confirmation" of the three videos.[^11]
### Later correction and follow-on reporting
In July 2020 Kean and Blumenthal wrote in the Times that Reid "believed that crashes of vehicles from other worlds had occurred and that retrieved materials had been studied secretly for decades, often by aerospace companies under government contracts"; the Times appended a correction the next day, and Reid told Lewis-Kraus he "had never seen proof of any remnants" but "was told for decades that [[Lockheed Martin|Lockheed]] had some of these retrieved materials."[^4] In June 2023 Kean and Blumenthal published the first account of the claims of [[David Grusch]] on the website [[The Debrief]], according to *[[New York Magazine]]*.[^13]
In July 2020 Kean and Blumenthal wrote in the Times that Reid "believed that crashes of vehicles from other worlds had occurred and that retrieved materials had been studied secretly for decades, often by aerospace companies under government contracts"; the Times appended a correction the next day, and Reid told Lewis-Kraus he "had never seen proof of any remnants" but "was told for decades that [[Lockheed Martin|Lockheed]] had some of these retrieved materials."[^4] In June 2023 Kean and Blumenthal published the first account of the claims of [[David Grusch]] on the website [[The Debrief]], according to *[[New York Magazine]]*.[^12]
### Footnotes
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[^6]: Bender, Bryan. "The Hidden History of How Washington Embraced UFOs" (web title "How Harry Reid, a Terrorist Interrogator and the Singer From Blink-182 Took UFOs Mainstream"). *Politico Magazine,* May 28, 2021. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/05/28/ufos-secret-history-government-washington-dc-487900 (read via Internet Archive copy). Mellon and Elizondo quotations are as given to Bender; the WHS approval is stated from "documents obtained by POLITICO" that are not reproduced.
[^7]: [[The Black Vault]], FOIA release of Office of the Secretary of Defense case 18-F-0644, August 2019 (emails of August 23 and 24, 2017 between Luis Elizondo and Michael Russo of the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review, with the DD Form 1910; the form's text is poorly legible in the scan and is quoted as transcribed in the research notes), https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/18-F-0644.pdf ; Joseph Gradisher quoted in "U.S. Navy Confirms Videos Depict Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, Not Cleared for Public Release," The Black Vault, September 2019, https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/u-s-navy-confirms-videos-depict-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-not-cleared-for-public-release/
[^8]: Kloor, Keith. "UFOs Won't Go Away." *Issues in Science and Technology,* March 1, 2019. https://issues.org/ufos-wont-go-away/
[^9]: The October 11, 2017 date of the Seattle launch event is from a secondary summary and the coordinator's brief; the New Yorker gives only "later that month."
[^10]: U.S. Department of Defense. "Statement by the Department of Defense on the Release of Historical Navy Videos," April 27, 2020. https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/ (read through the Internet Archive capture, https://web.archive.org/web/2020id_/https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/); Greenewald, John, Jr. "Navy Officially Releases UFO/UAP Videos, Calls Them 'Historical.'" The Black Vault, April 27, 2020 (reproduces the statement and gives the GOFAST date). https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/navy-officially-releases-ufo-uap-videos-calls-them-historical/
[^11]: Banias, MJ. "Ex Intel Official Says He Was the Source of the Pentagon's UFO Videos." *Vice,* October 20, 2020. https://www.vice.com/en/article/this-guy-says-he-was-the-source-of-the-pentagons-ufo-videos/. Sole source for the passages so cited: Mellon's on-camera statement to filmmaker James Fox in *The Phenomenon* (2020).
[^12]: The Galileo Project. "The Galileo Project Welcomes Christopher Mellon and Luis Elizondo as Research Affiliates," October 30, 2021. https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/galileo/files/mellon-elizondo_announcement_final_2.pdf (Internet Archive copy).
[^13]: Baker, Nicholson. "How We Lost Our Minds About UFOs." *New York Magazine,* January 31, 2024. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/leslie-kean-ufo-sightings-aliens.html
[^9]: U.S. Department of Defense. "Statement by the Department of Defense on the Release of Historical Navy Videos," April 27, 2020. https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/ (read through the Internet Archive capture, https://web.archive.org/web/2020id_/https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/); Greenewald, John, Jr. "Navy Officially Releases UFO/UAP Videos, Calls Them 'Historical.'" The Black Vault, April 27, 2020 (reproduces the statement and gives the GOFAST date). https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/navy-officially-releases-ufo-uap-videos-calls-them-historical/
[^10]: Banias, MJ. "Ex Intel Official Says He Was the Source of the Pentagon's UFO Videos." *Vice,* October 20, 2020. https://www.vice.com/en/article/this-guy-says-he-was-the-source-of-the-pentagons-ufo-videos/. Sole source for the passages so cited: Mellon's on-camera statement to filmmaker James Fox in *The Phenomenon* (2020).
[^11]: The Galileo Project. "The Galileo Project Welcomes Christopher Mellon and Luis Elizondo as Research Affiliates," October 30, 2021. https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/galileo/files/mellon-elizondo_announcement_final_2.pdf (Internet Archive copy).
[^12]: Baker, Nicholson. "How We Lost Our Minds About UFOs." *New York Magazine,* January 31, 2024. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/leslie-kean-ufo-sightings-aliens.html