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Journalist or investigator

Ross Douthat

2023-06-10what this date marks is not recorded

New York Times columnist; suggested one reading of the Grusch story is that parts of the U.S. government see some benefit in encouraging belief in UFOs, drawing a parallel to Stanford's Garry Nolan, a longtime extraterrestrial-hypothesis proponent whom Leslie Kean says knows and respects Grusch.

In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 2 September 2026 from this entity's own name and role text, which contain: "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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  • David Grusch names a source we do not hold
    drew a parallel between his claims and Garry Nolan's
    Public commentary and testimony on the Grusch disclosures (2023)
  • Garry Nolan nothing behind it
    drew a parallel between his claims and Grusch's