On December 16th, 2017, the New York Times published an article for the Sunday edition entitled “Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money”: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program”. This article was written by The New York Times’ senior Pentagon reporter Helene Cooper, New York Times’ staff writer Ralph Blumenthal, and independent journalist Leslie Kean. It is critical to point out that only through the decades of work that Leslie Kean had amassed on the subject of UFO’s and the Phenomenon that this story ever came to be on the front page of the mainstream media, on the pages of one of the most respected news outlets on the planet.

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    Leslie Kean became aware of the Pentagon’s secret program, known as AATIP (Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program), after being approached by Christopher Mellon, the former Deputy Secretary of Defense. Mellon, along with the former head of the AATIP Luis Elizondo, brought to Leslie Kean’s attention the existence of the program. They also presented her with three videos which Mellon and Elizondo had been successful in legally declassifying while at the Pentagon and subsequently released. These videos, now known across the world, are referred to as “Go Fast”, “Tic Tac”, and “Gimbal”. These videos would become the most widely viewed downloads in the history of the New York Times.

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​    The article brought to light, not just the secret Pentagon program and the Congressional support it had from Senators Harry Reid, Ted Stevens, Daniel Inouye for the program’s inception, but also the events that the program itself was focused upon.

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    The UAP events that occurred during the carrier task group training sessions in 2004 for the USS Nimitz and in 2014 and 2015 for the USS Theodore Roosevelt were first introduced to the public in this article. The article later led to a 60 Minutes episode in which Luis Elizondo, Christopher Mellon, Lt. Ryan Graves, Commander David Fravor, and Lt. Alex Dietrich all told of their accounts of these experiences. It created an undeniable, unimpeachable conclusion that the world’s most highly trained observers were telling us that these objects are there, they are real, and they do not know what they are.

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    The New York Times article and the 60 Minutes interview increased the public’s knowledge of the subject immeasurably in two highly credible formats. The subject was, overnight, receiving the attention of sober, serious, intelligent people, many who had never entertained these thoughts seriously in their lifetimes. This information, being brought forth in those two highly accredited formats, changed the conversation forever.

It is because of the work and sacrifice of those individuals mentioned, and countless others, that we are able to now know that…

the neighbors are here

 

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Leslie Kean’s work with the New York Times on this article came 7 years after her seminal work entitled

 “UFO’S – Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go On The Record”.

If you have not had the pleasure of reading this work, we hope that you will. If you cannot afford her book, please write to us and we will be happy to purchase a copy and send it to you.

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