John Lear Deserved a More Humane Reassessment

John Lear died in 2022. In the documentary Sleeping Dogs, with Jeremy Corbell as its central figure, Lear is almost framed as a neurotic carnival huckster. In my view, that portrayal is deeply unfair. It does not merely criticize him; it consumes him. It cuts through the already fragile psychological and physical defenses of a man who had been broken down by life long before the cameras arrived. John Lear was, in many ways, the father of the modern UFO “disclosure movement.” In 1987, George K...

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