Leslie
Kean is the author of the new book,
UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government
Officials Go On the Record, published by the
Crown Publishing Group/Random House (www.UFOsOnTheRecord.com).
The book includes a foreword by John
Podesta and first-person contributions written
by highly credible military and government officials from
nine countries, including five Generals.
Kean
is an independent investigative
journalist who has been published nationally and internationally
in the Boston
Globe, Philadelphia
Inquirer, Atlanta-Journal
Constitution, Providence
Journal, International
Herald Tribune, Globe
and Mail, Sydney
Morning Herald, The
Nation, and The
Journal for Scientific Exploration,
among other publications. She is co-author of Burma's
Revolution of the Spirit: The Struggle for Democratic
Freedom and Dignity and was also a producer
and on-air host for a daily investigative news program
on KPFA radio, a Pacifica station.
Kean
began publishing on the UFO subject in 2000, when her
feature story about the French
COMETA Report appeared in the Boston
Globe. In 2002, she co-founded the Coalition
for Freedom of Information (CFI),
an independent alliance advocating for greater government
openness on information about UFOs and for responsible
coverage by the media based on a rational and credible
approach. As director of the CFI,
she began working on the Kecksburg UFO case in 2002, with
the cooperation of Stan
Gordon. Kean was the plaintiff in
a successful, four-year Freedom
of Information Act federal lawsuit against
NASA,
in which the agency was required to release hundreds of
documents under court supervision. She and her coalition
have launched an ongoing initiative to affect U.S. government
policy so that scientists and aviation authorities can
gain greater understanding of the still-unexplained UFO
phenomenon.
Kean
was a producer for the 2009 independent documentary I
Know What I Saw directed by James
Fox, and is currently working with Break
Thru Films, an award-winning film company, on a new feature
documentary. She lives in New York.
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