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Lecture and Q&A with Leslie Kean

Leslie Kean is an independent investigative journalist and author of the New York Times bestseller UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go On the Record. Beginning with the landmark 2017 front-page New York Times story about a secret Pentagon UFO program, Leslie and Ralph Blumenthal have been contributing on the subject. Leslie’s decades of UFO reporting was profiled in The New Yorker in 2021. She helped produce the ongoing series “UFOs: Investigating the Unknown” (Nat Geo/VICE, 2025). Her award-winning 2017 book Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife was the basis for a six-part Netflix documentary series. Leslie has presented at Rice University, American University, the Explorer’s Club, the Franklin Institute, and The Institute of Noetic Sciences. She has been interviewed by Ezra Klein (2023) and Steven Colbert (2010).

0:00 Introduction
START OF LECTURE
2:42 COMETA Report, a 1999 French Military UFO report, and Leslie's early articles in Boston Globe, etc
12:51 Leslie's 2010 Book and the 2007 conference with James Fox
18:14 2017 New York Times Article
24:59 Interview with NYT Pentagon Correspondent Helene Cooper, from Nat Geo's "UFOs: Investigating the Unknown"
29:08 Interview with Navy Pilots, David Fravor and Alex Dietrich, about the 2004 Nimitz encounter, from Nat Geo's "UFOs: Investigating the Unknown"
31:00 Follow-up NYT articles with Navy Pilots
33:10 The 2021 UAP Task Force Report by the Navy, AARO, NASA hearing and the "Mosul Orb" video
39:19 Grusch revelations of 2023, Congressional Hearings, Transparency Legislation
52:48 "Age of Disclosure" Trailer
START OF Q&A
56:24 Literature recommendations for newcomers?
1:00:36 What do people mean by "inter-dimensionality"?
1:05:05 Why don't more people leak information?
1:08:13 Have you always been interested in the unknown?
1:10:17 Audience comment about a personal experience + Leslie's reply
1:14:22 Drone sightings in NJ, Belgium, Denmark, Langley, etc?
1:17:12 How would it work slow-rolling disclosure, as suggested in the UAP Disclosure Act?
1:20:03 What does the public think about UFOs in other countries you've dealt with, e.g. France, Chile, etc?
1:21:56 The sightings seem similar to older sightings across decades... how has the phenomenon and our ability to study it changed over the years?
1:26:24 Thoughts on Steven Greer's CE5? Is it safe?
1:31:18 Have UFOs been here for all of human history? Thoughts on parallels between UFOs and ancient hieroglyphs, etc?
1:33:50 Thoughts about Biblical interpretations of UFOs? E.g. the "Mothership" of the Nation of Islam? (Professor Stephen C. Finley studied this.)
1:36:05 Hurdles in getting the your first Boston Globe story on UFOs in 2000?
1:39:17 How does do religious views, e.g. of UFOs as 'demonic', affect the disclosure movement? and audience comments about old artwork depicting UFOs
1:44:56 Was the 2017 article about a secret UFO program, or more about a program hidden from the public / Congress?
1:47:34 What level of information have you been exposed to? Do you have access to classified information?
1:49:43 How were the videos released by the Pentagon selected to be released?
1:52:29 Any connections between Near-Death Experience and UFOs?
1:55:03 What excites you the most about the future?
1:56:07 Thoughts about upcoming blockbusters by Spielberg and others about disclosure?
1:59:17 End of Program