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Kean, 'UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record'
Investigative journalist Leslie Kean's book combining her reporting with first-person chapters by military officers, pilots and officials.
2010 CE · 40.71, -74.01 · status: account
The account
Kean let senior figures describe cases in their own words, such as the 1976 Tehran jet encounter, the Belgian wave, Rendlesham and the 2006 O'Hare sighting, and argued that governments should take UAP seriously as a safety and science issue. Its sober tone made it a respectable entry point and prefigured her 2017 New York Times reporting.
The sceptical view
Credible witnesses can still misperceive; skeptics say the book selects the most impressive accounts without examining the prosaic solutions proposed for them.
Connections in the atlas
- UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record
- Tehran incident
- O'Hare Airport
- Belgian wave
- Rendlesham Forest