Leslie Kean
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PersonJournalistLeslie Kean is an investigative journalist and author whose reporting helped move military UFO cases, government programs, and whistleblower claims into mainstream news.
Leslie Kean is an investigative journalist and author whose reporting helped move military UFO cases, government programs, and whistleblower claims into mainstream news.
Leslie Kean is an American investigative journalist whose work has focused on subjects that sit outside ordinary news coverage, including unidentified aerial phenomena, survival of consciousness, and unexplained aviation incidents. She co-founded the Coalition for Freedom of Information and spent years gathering official records and testimony from pilots, military officers, and government figures.
Kean’s journalism developed around subjects that institutions often treat cautiously, including human-rights reporting, aviation testimony, survival research, and government secrecy. Her 2010 book on UFOs relied heavily on named pilots and officials, establishing the sober, document-conscious style that later shaped her newspaper work. She subsequently wrote about evidence for consciousness after death, making her broader career one of sustained inquiry into extraordinary reports through witnesses whose conventional credentials make easy dismissal more difficult.
Her 2010 book UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record presented cases through named witnesses and documents rather than anonymous folklore. Kean later joined Helene Cooper and Ralph Blumenthal on the 2017 New York Times reporting that revealed a Pentagon UAP effort and publicized military videos. In 2023 she and Blumenthal introduced David Grusch’s allegations in The Debrief. The claims in those stories depend on the evidence and sources cited; publication did not settle their ultimate explanation.
Kean is a foundational journalist in media coverage of UAP and whistleblower testimony. Her influence comes from persuading named officials to speak, building documentary context, and carrying a stigmatized subject into major outlets. She is also open to extraordinary interpretations, making the distinction between her reporting, her sources’ claims, and confirmed findings especially important.
[Retweeted] “A New Kind of God" is a play co-authored by investigative journalist Leslie Kean and actor/writer William Youmans. Core Theme •UAP Disclosure: The play explores the existential, philosophical, and societal ramifications of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) disclosure. Production Status •Creators: Written by Leslie Kean and William Youmans under Not of This Earth LLC. •Development: Kean has been working with New York producers to launch and develop the production.
Reading through Jay Stratton's book. Really nothing terribly new if you've read earlier books by Leslie Kean, Ross Coulthart, and Lou Elizondo. Question I have is who was in charge at AAWSAP and particularly AATIP? Lou has said he was in charge, DOD denied it, Harry Reid issued what sounded like a weak endorsement of Lou's claim, IIRC. Now, looking at Jay's book, he hardly mentions Lou. There's only a few references in the index, and one of them seems to be an error. Very odd that Lou is scar...
[Retweeted] Legendary New York Post Columnist Cindy Adams Calls for UAP Transparency Cindy Adams, one of America's most recognizable columnists, has joined the growing chorus calling for answers on UAP. A New York Post columnist since 1979, Adams has spent nearly five decades covering influential figures in politics, entertainment, and world affairs. Her career includes interviews with world leaders, bestselling biographies, and decades of reporting from within some of the nation's most influ...
[Retweeted] Legendary New York Post Columnist Cindy Adams Calls for UAP Transparency Cindy Adams, one of America's most recognizable columnists, has joined the growing chorus calling for answers on UAP. A New York Post columnist since 1979, Adams has spent nearly five decades covering influential figures in politics, entertainment, and world affairs. Her career includes interviews with world leaders, bestselling biographies, and decades of reporting from within some of the nation's most influ...
We did a little special thing in recording the AMA in podcast form. We took answers from this post on r/HighStrangeness and will be replying to each person that asked these questions in the original post as well! 00:00 Welcome & Intros 06:21 Q1 — Evidence of the unexplained, stories from the show 15:43 Q2 — The Extratempestrial theory 23:38 Q3 — Altered states of consciousness, shared environments 36:01 Q4 — Finishing John Mack’s book 38:56 Q5 — Fear of the paranormal, documenting experiences...
We did a little special thing in recording the AMA in podcast form. We took answers from this post on r/HighStrangeness and will be replying to each person that asked these questions in the original post as well! 00:00 Welcome & Intros 06:21 Q1 — Evidence of the unexplained, stories from the show 15:43 Q2 — The Extratempestrial theory 23:38 Q3 — Altered states of consciousness, shared environments 36:01 Q4 — Finishing John Mack’s book 38:56 Q5 — Fear of the paranormal, documenting experiences...
[Retweeted] UAP Studies Expand at CUNY Graduate Center The City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center will offer a new Master’s-level course in Spring 2027 titled “From UFOs to UAP: Disclosure and National Security,” taught by Dr. Eli Karetny (@EKaretny) of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies. This past May, the Disclosure Foundation proudly sponsored a CUNY Graduate Center event featuring investigative journalist Leslie Kean (@lesliekean), where our Executive Directo...
[Retweeted] Unexplained sightings have appeared in our skies for years, and one of the most profound questions facing humanity is: Has Earth been visited by a non-human intelligence from somewhere else? These sightings used to be called UFOs, "unidentified flying objects," but that was changed in 2020 to the broader acronym UAP, "unidentified aerial phenomena," and then broadened again to "unidentified anomalous phenomena." There’s legislation in Congress to force the government to fully rele...
[Retweeted] Multi-Subreddit AMA with Paul Hynek, Dr. Jim Segala and host Leslie Kean https://t.co/BaRU4IyyZn
[Retweeted] Multi-Subreddit AMA with Paul Hynek, Dr. Jim Segala and host Leslie Kean https://t.co/BaRU4IyyZn