Journalist or investigator

Leslie Kean

2017-12-16what this date marks is not recorded

Investigative journalist and author of "UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record" (2010) and "Surviving Death" (2017). Co-authored the original December 2017 New York Times AATIP exposé, and in 2023 - with Ralph Blumenthal - broke the David Grusch whistleblower story.

In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 2 September 2026 from this entity's own name and role text, which contain: "aatip", "ufos". An editorial classification of what thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to. Neighbours were not used - see apply-subjects-2026-09-02.mjs for why.

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primary source

The Debrief, Jun 5 2023
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wrote the foreword to her 2010 book on UFO witnesses

Kean, UFOs (2010) - Podesta foreword
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served as a judge on the 2021 BICS essay contest

BICS Contest Judges page, bigelowinstitute.org
→ David Grusch names a source we do not hold

co-broke his June 2023 whistleblower story in The Debrief

The Debrief, Jun 5 2023 (Kean & Blumenthal)
→ Ralph Blumenthal names a source we do not hold

co-authored the 2017 NYT AATIP story and the 2023 Grusch story with him

NYT Dec 16 2017; The Debrief Jun 5 2023
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co-broke the 2017 NYT story that revealed the program

NYT, Glowing Auras and Black Money, Dec 16 2017
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