Ralph Blumenthal
PersonRalph Blumenthal
PersonRalph Blumenthal is a veteran investigative journalist and author who co-reported major stories on the Pentagon UAP program and David Grusch.
Ralph Blumenthal is a veteran investigative journalist and author who co-reported major stories on the Pentagon UAP program and David Grusch.
Ralph Blumenthal is an American journalist and author who spent decades at The New York Times, including work on investigative teams and foreign assignments. His reporting has covered organized crime, war-crimes cases, law enforcement, and historical subjects. After leaving the newspaper’s staff, he continued writing books and investigative articles.
Blumenthal spent decades at The New York Times working on investigations that ranged from organized crime and corruption to international reporting. After leaving the daily staff, he continued writing books and long-form journalism, including a biography of the psychiatrist and abduction researcher John Mack. His UAP reporting is therefore part of a much longer career in source development and complex investigations. The Mack project also gave him historical depth in a field where personal testimony, institutional resistance, and controversy repeatedly overlap.
Blumenthal joined Helene Cooper and Leslie Kean on the December 2017 reporting that revealed a Pentagon program associated with UFO investigation and brought Navy videos to broad public attention. In 2023 he and Kean published the first detailed account of David Grusch’s crash-retrieval allegations in The Debrief. He has also written a biography of John Mack, linking his journalism to the history of abduction research.
Blumenthal is a key figure in media coverage of UAP and whistleblower testimony. His role is to document what named sources, records, and official processes establish while presenting allegations that remain contested. The impact of his work comes from investigative experience and publication reach; confirmation of the extraordinary claims still depends on evidence beyond the articles themselves.
"WSJ's Joel Schectman is, 'blatantly lying.'" ~Dr. Eric Davis, to me and @GoodTroubleShow "The [WSJ] twisted our [NYT] story. Schectman has mischaracterized what our Times story actually said and we've told him a correction is warranted." ~Blumenthal and Kean (Last year, I reached out for a comment from Blumenthal and Kean regarding the WSJ's 2nd UAP article and claims about Dr. Eric Davis. They were nice enough to respond. ⬇️ ) "Upon reading the Journal's second piece, Blumenthal emailed @jo...
(Excellent work. I'll include a comment I received from Blumenthal and Kean in my next post.) "Both Dr. Davis and journalist Ralph Blumenthal subsequently rais [Quoted] 🧵 1/6 The Disclosure Foundation calls on The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) to correct errors in its June 2025 UAP reporting and on the National Press Club (@PressClubDC) to rescind the journalism award given to the articles’ authors. In a formal letter, Foundation Chairman Christopher Mellon (@ChrisKMellon) details concerns abou...
Probed ingest of: The Terrible Truth About the Visitors - Whitley Strieber | ep. 96
This shows you how DDJ has crapped all over much of the crash-retrieval news. He's good with legislation but don't trust him on anything related to CRs. Note: I was one who was VERY vocal on what I had heard on the upcoming 2020 NYT article on crash retrievals. And the NYT DID publish such an article. Sorry, DDJ. Kean and Blumenthal have said that it was edited down to what they had originally submitted and I was told the original was "substantial" but wound up "gutted" when it was finally pu...
Dan Aykroyd's Phone Message of December 17, 2017 (Excerpt from SLF #18)
More of my thoughts on proposed amnesty, from 2021. Yes, we've been discussing it on and off for a while. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ https://t.co/z29zDDPOHG [Quoted] @RealSassyKat @AuthorCorby @Baptiste_Fri @Akam1129 @wouilisam @Borders750 @RealCSharp @shadowsmagazine @g_knapp @theblackvault @DefenseIntel @CIA @FBI @DeptofDefense @NASA @LuAngeles @coasttocoastam @JeremyUnidenti1 @MiddleOfMayhem @lesliekean @ralphblu @ExopoliticsPT @PaoloGuiz56 @LtTimMcMillan @rosscoulthart It bothers me that folks are willing to...
Pretty good NYT interview with Spielberg on DD & how he educated himself. Mentions 2017 NYT article as a big influence, & references @helenecooper, @ralphblu & @lesliekean. Says he watched every documentary he could find. First 13.5 mins is UFOs & DD. https://t.co/kbF9hxB9Bd
Steven Spielberg was inspired to make Disclosure Day after witnessing UFO whistleblowers and pilots testifying in 2023 “I felt, starting back in, I think 2023, when the New York Times came out with a story,influenced by a whistleblower that released some footage to the New York Times. It was a story written by Helene Cooper and Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Keane. And it was a story about what Navy pilots had photographed on their FLIR systems, their infrared systems, their forward facing infra...
This is a long one, and REALLY good. I miss John Mack. This topic misses him. The Case of the Reptilians https://t.co/JdIUXbsx3R [Quoted] "The UFO phenomenon connects us beyond ourselves with all beings." ~Mack "Greg is a physician in his 50s, and he has had a lifelong battle with his Reptilian beings. They seem to struggle with him for his soul." ~Mack (@ralphblu said that John Mack died before he and Barbara https://t.co/4EdnEfCy5M
@ralphblu https://t.co/vRsxNryB9o
