I think most people on this subreddit have seen the following screenshot of a Signal exchange from 2020 posted by Chris Mellon recently.
In this exchange, the individual talking to Mellon references “a still-highly classified memo by a Secretary of the USAF in the 1950s still in effect to maintain the cover on UAPs”.
As per the recently passed into law NDAA from last year:
The more benign UAP provisions remaining in the NDAA for FY 2024 direct the National Archives and Records Administration (“NARA”) to establish a “UAP Records Collection” not later than February 23, 2024. The Records Collection will consist of “all government, government-provided, or government-funded records relating to unidentified anomalous phenomena, technologies of unknown origin, and non-human intelligence[.]” Further, not later than October 23, 2024, government offices must identify and review UAP records in their custody, and, on determining that a record should be disclosed to the public, transmit it to NARA, where it will be made available for public inspection. In the alternative, the government office also may determine that public disclosure of a record should be “postponed,” in which case the record will be secured in a “protected, yet-to-be-disclosed, or classified” part of the NARA Collection. Postponement requires a finding that disclosure would pose a grave threat to military defense, intelligence operations, or the conduct of foreign relations. Congress must be informed within 15 days of any decision to postpone public disclosure of a UAP record. Although all records subject to postponement must be periodically reviewed for declassification and disclosure, public disclosure of such records is not mandated until 25 years after the record was first created, however. Of note, the law provides that UAP-related records created by non-federal persons or entities are not eligible for postponement.
If such a memo exists, it should now be de-classified and in the public domain (it’s well beyond the 25 year mark). Has anyone been able to identify the memo being referenced in any of the recently released NARA documents?
I find it unlikely that a USAF memo from the 1950s would pose a grave threat to “military defense, intelligence operations, or the conduct of foreign relations”, but if that finding did occur, was Congress informed of that? It’s been well over 15 days since February 23, 2024.
Has Chris Mellon himself addressed this? I haven’t seen anything from him.
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