“THE GOVERNMENT HAS ACKNOWLEDGED THE REALITY OF UFOS”

BIO

Leslie Kean Kean is the author of The New York Times bestseller UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record. More recently she co-authored eye-opening articles in The New York Times that focused on sightings of UFOs, which the US military has recently rebranded as unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), and the government programs to investigate them. She also wrote UFOs: Shifting the narrative from threat to science, an article published in August 2021.

How do you best characterise where we are today, given your NY Times co-authored piece that catapulted things into public view?

We have seen a major change since our December 2017 story that included two Navy videos. The government has acknowledged the reality of UFOs and the fact that they impact national security, and that alone is a major shift. We have more Navy videos of unexplained objects, an official UAP Task Force and most recently a government report on UAPs which was requested