Leslie Kean

Leslie Kean is an investigative journalist and author who is most notable for credulous stories about UFOs and the paranormal.[1][2]

Background

Kean is the daughter of environmentalist and philanthropist Hamilton Fish Kean and the granddaughter of Congressman Robert Kean.[3]

Career

Kean has published works relating to UFOs since 2000, and has been a guest on Coast to Coast AM.[4][5] Her book UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record, published by Penguin Random House, was a New York Times best seller.[6] Three distinguished men wrote firsthand accounts about incidents for Kean's book. They are joined by Air Force generals and a host of high-level sources – including Fife Symington III, former governor of Arizona and Nick Pope, former head of the British Defence Ministry's UFO Investigative Unit. Her book was translated and published in China, France, Taiwan, Brazil, Germany, Romania, Croatia, Vietnam, Bulgaria, and Serbia. A Spanish edition was released in 2017. John Podesta, longtime Presidential counselor and chair of the 2016 Hillary Clinton Presidential Campaign, wrote in the foreword for Kean's book: “The time to pull the curtain back on this subject is long overdue.” Describing himself as “a curious skeptic” who understands the difference between fact and fiction, he said the American people “want to know, and they can handle the truth.”

Leslie Kean belongs to the UFO organization UFODATA and in 2016 she wrote that she was “privileged to welcome” Christopher Mellon, the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence in the Clinton and Bush administrations, into the organization.[7]

On 16 December 2017, the New York Times featured an article written by Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal and Kean, which revealed the fact that the US Department of Defense had spent $22.5M on a secret program titled the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program that investigated UFOs.[8]

Written works
  • 1994. Burma's Revolution of the Spirit: The Struggle for Democratic Freedom and Dignity – with Alan Clements. ISBN 978-0893815806.
  • 2010. UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record - with a foreword by John Podesta, Harmony Books, New York. ISBN 978-0307716842.
  • 2017. Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife. ISBN 978-0553419610.

References
  1. "Leslie Kean Penguin Random House". Penguin Random House. Retrieved October 1, 2018.
  2. "Leslie Kean HuffPost". Huffington Post. Retrieved October 1, 2018.
  3. HAMILTON KEAN (obituary) Retrieved May 15, 2020
  4. "Leslie Kean - Biography & Interviews Coast to Coast AM". Coast to Coast AM. Retrieved October 1, 2018.
  5. Cooper, Helene; Blumenthal, Ralph; Kean, Leslie (December 16, 2017). "Glowing Auras and 'Black Money': The Pentagon's Mysterious U.F.O. Program". The New York Times. Retrieved December 17, 2017.
  6. Blumenthal, Ralph (December 18, 2017). "On the Trail of a Secret Pentagon U.F.O. Program - The New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved October 1, 2018. ...The journey began two and a half months ago with a tip to Leslie, who has long reported on U.F.O.s and published a 2010 New York Times best seller, “UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record....
  7. Keith Kloor: The Media Loves This UFO Expert Who Says He Worked for an Obscure Pentagon Program. Did He?, The Intercept, 1 June 2019
  8. Cooper, Helene; Kean, Leslie; Blumenthal, Ralph (December 16, 2017). "2 Navy Airmen and an Object That 'Accelerated Like Nothing I've Ever Seen'". The New York Times. Retrieved December 21, 2017.
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