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The woman who forced the US government to take UFOs seriously (Leslie Kean)
theguardian.com ^ | Soo Youn

Posted on 06/14/2021 6:03:54 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

If it wasn’t [sic] for the French dossier, UFOs might not have dominated Leslie Kean’s life for the past two decades.

In 1999, the independent journalist was handed a scoop by a French colleague: a 90-page report of UFO sightings by military and commercial pilots. The document, called UFOs and Defense: For What Must We Prepare Ourselves? (in French: Les OVNI et la Défense: À Quoi Doit-On Se Préparer?), was eventually published by a French military thinktank.

“I thought, my God, this is huge. Generals and admirals saying that they think it’s likely that we’re being visited by craft that are extraterrestrial … They didn’t say they could prove it. But they said it’s a very good hypothesis for what they studied for three years,” Kean told the Guardian...

“That was just a major story. What if they’re right? What if the equivalent stature of people in America said what these people are saying?”

[snip]

After the French report, it took years for Kean to get up to speed. She had to track down sources, and the learning curve to differentiate those who were credible from those who were not was steep.

“I did press conferences, and I filed a lawsuit against Nasa [to obtain information about a 1965 sighting of a car-sized object crashing from the sky in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania]. I was really, really working on bringing UFOs seriously into the mainstream. And I did that a lot,” she said in a follow-up conversation from her New York apartment this week.

“I didn’t have an issue with people ridiculing me. Because the way I reported on this, it just didn’t invite ridicule. I didn’t do the weird sensationalistic conspiratorial stuff, I just did stuff like what’s in my book – very straightforward, good sources.”

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1 posted on 06/14/2021 6:03:54 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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UFO/UAP news has been slow to non-existent while people await the DOD/DNI report to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence due on or before June 25th.

But this article is an interesting bit of backstory to fill the void in the meantime.


2 posted on 06/14/2021 6:06:55 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Pass me the Tic Tacs.


3 posted on 06/14/2021 6:08:54 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: Vaquero

Heheh. Here ya go.;-)


4 posted on 06/14/2021 6:09:47 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

An article from the radical
commie Brit rag by a Chinese Ccp plant.

Got it


5 posted on 06/14/2021 6:12:47 AM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists is a )
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To: ncalburt

“Know thine enemy.”


6 posted on 06/14/2021 6:18:11 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

People need to question the 70 year long propaganda campaign that made serious inquiry into these things an object of ridicule. All while world governments took these things seriously.


7 posted on 06/14/2021 7:08:55 AM PDT by MercyFlush (A wise man once said nothing. )
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It’s not the Chinese. Those advanced drones


8 posted on 06/14/2021 7:09:07 AM PDT by campaignPete R-CT (Committee to Re-Elect the President ( CREEP ) )
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To: MercyFlush

Right. Our government thought nothing of ruining lives over this issue. Perhaps even ending some.


9 posted on 06/14/2021 7:14:07 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

I would not be surprised if more than a few suicides and accidents were arranged for people who knew too much.


10 posted on 06/14/2021 7:18:04 AM PDT by MercyFlush (A wise man once said nothing. )
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To: MercyFlush

Yep.


11 posted on 06/14/2021 7:19:21 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

I’m personally not convinced these things are from another planet simply because there’s no evidence to support that notion. But they are real and our government has known this much for a very long time.


12 posted on 06/14/2021 7:28:19 AM PDT by MercyFlush (A wise man once said nothing. )
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To: MercyFlush
I have no idea what "they" are. But, as you say, they are quite real.

Looks like we are on the cusp of a major paradigm shift.

13 posted on 06/14/2021 7:54:59 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

The Arizona audit the first forensic audit of a US federal election in the history of the United States is about to be completed

Yes we’re getting all kinds of UFO stories in the news

Ha ha no coincidence there


14 posted on 06/14/2021 8:10:31 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (Arizona !!!! Now the TRUMP TRAIN is getting back on TRACK ! TRUTH! FREEDOM ! LIBERTY! )
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To: RoosterRedux

My more reasonable considerations for the source of these things:

1. A US military or government capability that has been kept secret for a very long time.

2. A foreign military or government capability that has been kept secret for a very long time.

Now before I go on I’d like to say that the two above considerations are to me in the realm of 99.9% probability.

Less likely by a long shot are these considerations:

3. Craft belonging to a human civilization that has kept itself hidden for centuries. Not very likely sure, but I believe this is much more likely than an extraterrestrial explanation.

4. Craft belonging to a future human civilization. Time travel also being much more likely than interstellar travel.


15 posted on 06/14/2021 8:41:08 AM PDT by MercyFlush (A wise man once said nothing. )
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To: ncalburt

Keane is a CCP plant?


16 posted on 06/15/2021 5:11:08 AM PDT by JoeRender
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