Leslie Kean

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

Background[]

Kean is the daughter of environmentalist and philanthropist Hamilton Fish Kean and the granddaughter of Congressman Robert Kean.[3] Her uncle is former New Jersey Governor Tom Kean Sr., and her cousin is New Jersey State Senator Tom Kean Jr.

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] Kean belongs to the UFO organization UFODATA.[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. ^ "UFO DATA Team". Retrieved March 20, 2021.
  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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