Career U.S. Senate staffer who served as a professional staff member on the Senate Armed Services and Intelligence committees from 2007 until retiring in 2024. Now advises the Disclosure Foundation on UAP policy and has co-authored public writing on congressional oversight of classified UAP programs with Christopher Mellon.
Kirk McConnell spent 37 years as a Capitol Hill staffer, serving as a professional staff member on the Senate Armed Services Committee from January 2007 until his retirement in September 2024, with earlier work on Senate and House intelligence committees. In that role he had access to closed briefings on defense and intelligence matters, including UAP-related material. Since retiring, he has become a public advisor to the Disclosure Foundation, an advocacy organization pushing for expanded UAP transparency, and has co-written policy material with former Pentagon official Christopher Mellon addressing misconceptions about disclosing classified information to Congress. McConnell has stated publicly that multiple individuals with firsthand knowledge of UAP programs have spoken to Congress or an inspector general. He appears in James Fox's documentary 'The Program,' about alleged U.S. government UAP retrieval efforts.