Case file · Disclosure & CE-5
Leslie Kean
American investigative journalist, co-author of the 2017 New York Times AATIP story and the 2023 David Grusch report.
2017 CE · 40.71, -74.01 · status: account
The account
Kean's 2010 book 'UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record', with a foreword by John Podesta, became a New York Times best-seller. With Helene Cooper and Ralph Blumenthal she broke the AATIP story on 16 December 2017, and with Blumenthal she reported David Grusch's allegations on 5 June 2023. She has also written 'Surviving Death' (2017) on evidence for an afterlife.
The sceptical view
Critics argue that her UFO reporting relies on official witnesses' testimony rather than physical evidence, and that sources like Elizondo have been contested.
Connections in the atlas
- Kecksburg object
- UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record
- Helene Cooper
- The Grusch report (The Debrief)
- The Grusch story breaks
- "Glowing Auras and Black Money" (New York Times)
- Ralph Blumenthal
- The New York Times reveals AATIP
- USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac'
- Grusch testimony
- Roswell incident