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OrgMedia OutletThe New York Times is an American newspaper and global digital news organization whose 2017 reporting helped transform UAP into a sustained national-security story.
The New York Times is an American newspaper and global digital news organization whose 2017 reporting helped transform UAP into a sustained national-security story.
The New York Times is an American newspaper founded in 1851 and published by The New York Times Company. Its newsroom reports across politics, international affairs, science, culture, business, and investigations, supported by foreign and domestic bureaus. The Times’s agenda-setting reach means that publication can move a subject from specialist communities into mainstream institutional debate.
Investigative work at the newspaper combines interviews, documents, editorial review, legal scrutiny, and requests for official comment. Its authority is substantial but not self-proving; unnamed sources, compressed explanations, and later corrections still require close reading. Follow-up reporting is particularly important when an initial story reveals a program whose name, purpose, or bureaucratic status remains disputed.
In December 2017 the Times reported on a Pentagon-funded aerospace program, military UFO encounters, and videos later officially released by the Defense Department. The story brought AATIP, Luis Elizondo, Robert Bigelow, and Navy cases to a vast audience, helping establish modern UAP coverage. Later debate showed that AAWSAP and AATIP terminology, leadership, and scope were more complicated than early public accounts suggested.
The Times’s institutional role was not to prove an extraterrestrial explanation but to make official attention, funding, and military testimony newsworthy. Its reporting created pressure for government acknowledgment and opened a beat followed by many outlets. The enduring record includes both that breakthrough and the obligation to refine the story as documents and conflicting institutional histories emerged. The episode also demonstrates how high-impact journalism can create durable terminology before the underlying bureaucracy is fully understood. Later articles, public records, and corrections are part of the same institutional contribution. A responsible history credits the initial reporting while incorporating the distinctions that subsequent evidence made possible.
The moment UFOs became discussable in public
Not bad for @jaystratton and, "Out of the Shadows" since he hasn't gone on any massive shows like Rogan or @StevenBartlett, who each have about 20 million subsc [Quoted] IF THERE WERE A "LEGACY PROGRAM," THEY WOULD BE FROWNING The Circana BookScan list, published by Publishers Weekly, reported that for the week ending Oct. 17, 2026, "Out of the Shadows" by @jaystratton was no. 7 on the "Hardcover Frontlist Nonfiction" list, with 13,331 hardcover copies sold, according to BookScan. The book wa...
[Retweeted] IF THERE WERE A "LEGACY PROGRAM," THEY WOULD BE FROWNING The Circana BookScan list, published by Publishers Weekly, reported that for the week ending Oct. 17, 2026, "Out of the Shadows" by @jaystratton was no. 7 on the "Hardcover Frontlist Nonfiction" list, with 13,331 hardcover copies sold, according to BookScan. The book was published Oct. 13, so this covered the first five days, including any preorders fulfilled during publication week. The book also appears for a second week o...
[Retweeted] IF THERE WERE A "LEGACY PROGRAM," THEY WOULD BE FROWNING The Circana BookScan list, published by Publishers Weekly, reported that for the week ending Oct. 17, 2026, "Out of the Shadows" by @jaystratton was no. 7 on the "Hardcover Frontlist Nonfiction" list, with 13,331 hardcover copies sold, according to BookScan. The book was published Oct. 13, so this covered the first five days, including any preorders fulfilled during publication week. The book also appears for a second week o...
How the 2017 New York Times UFO story came together
[Retweeted] Very proud to share that my memoir, Out of the Shadows, has debuted at #2 on the NY Times Best Sellers List. Thank you to everyone who has read the book and recommended it to friends and family. And thank you to everyone who helped make this book possible! https://t.co/xXwu6bFlbe
[Retweeted] Very proud to share that my memoir, Out of the Shadows, has debuted at #2 on the NY Times Best Sellers List. Thank you to everyone who has read the book and recommended it to friends and family. And thank you to everyone who helped make this book possible! https://t.co/xXwu6bFlbe
Former U.S. intelligence official Jay Stratton's new memoir, Out of the Shadows, has debuted at #2 on the New York Times Best Sellers List. This is a historic moment for the global disclosure movement. https://t.co/5GGOpDpU8z
This is reassuring, in terms of public interest. Congrats to @jaystratton https://t.co/yW4ytIygrL [Quoted] Very proud to share that my memoir, Out of the Shadows, has debuted at #2 on the NY Times Best Sellers List. Thank you to everyone who has read the book and recommended it to friends and family. And thank you to everyone who helped make this book possible! https://t.co/xXwu6bFlbe
[Retweeted] Very proud to share that my memoir, Out of the Shadows, has debuted at #2 on the NY Times Best Sellers List. Thank you to everyone who has read the book and recommended it to friends and family. And thank you to everyone who helped make this book possible! https://t.co/xXwu6bFlbe