Read the Opinion Piece from Christopher Mellon posted at The Hill May 19, 2019.

Friend, foe, or unknown force flying overhead? Congress should find out

Christopher Mellon served 20 years in the federal government and was deputy assistant Defense secretary for intelligence from 1999 to 2002, and for security and information operations from 1998 to 1999. From 2002 to 2004, he was minority staff director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence under Sen. John Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.). He is a national security affairs adviser for To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science and a consultant to HISTORY’s nonfiction series, “Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation,” which premieres May 31.

A Canadian witness at Abbotsford, British Columbia, reported an object hovering over the roadway about the width of the two-lane road, according to testimony in Case 90803 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness was driving down a “poorly lit road” at 8:40 p.m. (already dark) on March 15, 2018.

“I had another person with me at the time,” the witness stated. “At first I didn’t really pay much attention to the craft as I assumed it was an airplane in a distance. I started taking more notice as I continued driving as the air craft seemed to be quite low and what seemed to be slow moving. However, as I neared the air craft it was not moving at all. It was hovering in one spot directly over the road. It was hovering in one spot probably above the power lines (distance wise). I kept driving, but I slowed down as I was driving under it (directly under it). I told my companion, ‘that is no plane.’”

The witness described the object.

“It was a black color with lights (lights flashing like an airplane as that was the deception in the start). It was loud sounding as I passed under it (loud engine). It was a long-ish kind of shape in width that was about the same size as the width of the road (double lane road). It had some kind of strips of material fluttering off it. It was not a drone. I drove under it, but to be honest, I was tripping out a little bit in the moment as normally I am a very skeptical person. I drove up to the next street crossing (approximately a city block and-a-half) and did a U-turn as I was going to take pictures or a video etc. I sped back down the road but as I neared it again it left. It just seemed to look like just any other light in the sky within seconds. I don’t know for sure what it was. When I was under it, it was really the only time I could hear its engine. I couldn’t hear what it sounded like when it took off as I was speeding back toward it to take some pictures. All that I could really hear was my own engine speeding back towards it. I don’t know what it was, but it was not a drone or an airplane.”

Canada MUFON Field Investigator Carl Peterson closed this case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle.

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An Alabama witness at Holly Pond reported watching a low-flying, triangle-shaped object, according to testimony in Case 97506 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
 
The witness was standing on his back porch drinking a cup of coffee at 4:30 a.m. on March 15, 2018.
 
“It flew directly into my field of site,” the witness stated. “I was looking towards the south and it flew directly in front of me. It has three round balls glowing, not casting light, and it was triangle in shape and on the very back on the top of the craft was a little blinking red light. It was completely silent and black, not regular black, but so black I couldn’t see details of its bottom. And on the back of it was two panels that looked like closed blinds.”
 
Alabama MUFON CAG Investigator William Morse closed this case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle.

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A Michigan witness at Port Huron reported a low-flying, rectangle-shaped object the size of car crossing the sky, according to testimony in Case 90776 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
 
The incident occurred at 5:38 p.m. on March 14, 2018.
 
“Hovered over center of St. Clair River at about the same height of the bridges,” the witness stated. “Constantly changing reflective colors. As it flew east to Canada, it gained altitude and hid in clouds. I was fishing the St. Clair River at the north end of the water treatment plant. I started fishing around 5:15 p.m. I was sitting there waiting for a bite when I heard a man yelling very loud from the parking lot at the police department which is next to the water treatment plant on the north side. He yelled, ‘Oh wow. Wow.’ Then he kinda laughed excitedly. I immediately looked to the north and seen a silver and gold reflecting object hovering very slowly over the St. Clair River.”
 
The witness said the object looked like a rippling, rectangle-shaped mirror.
 
“It was about the height of the bridges from the water. The object was moving slowly from west to east, which is from Port Huron, Michigan to Sarnia Ontario. The object started flashing very reflective colors that kept changing. It was like a gyroscope of colored mirrors for lack of better words. The object was about the size of a car but was more of a rectangle shape. As it neared the Canadian shoreline, it started to ascend and flew around faster but went towards the clouds. It was very reflective the entire time I observed it. When I first seen it, I tried to make sense of it. I tried to say it’s a plane, a helicopter, a helium balloon, a jet, a drone, but it wasn’t. It didn’t make any sounds and the way it was hovering, and flying was very unique. By the time I realized I was looking at a UFO, it was up over Sarnia flying around and into the clouds. I got a small video clip but that doesn’t do it justice. I couldn’t see the screen on my phone very well because of a glare. I lost sight of the object when it flew in a cloud high up in the sky.
 
“Might be irrelevant, but I saw a U.S. Coast Guard boat heading out into Lake Huron about 20 minutes before I witnessed it. About 30-40 minutes after I lost sight of the object, that same Coast Guard boat was heading back in the river. I don’t know where the object came from, I first seen it over the river.”

Michigan MUFON CAG Investigator Sue Gerberding closed this case as an Unknown-Other.
 
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