Ralph Blumenthal is an American journalist and author. He was a staff reporter for ''

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of ...

'' from 1964 to 2009.

Reporting

On 16 December 2017, the ''

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'' featured an article written by

Leslie Kean Leslie Kean is an American Investigative journalism, investigative journalist and author of books about Unidentified flying object, UFOs and the afterlife. Early life and education Kean is the daughter of environmentalist and philanthropist Hamil ...

, Helene Cooper, and Blumenthal, which revealed the fact that the

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had spent $22.5M on a secret program titled the

Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) was an unclassified but unpublicized investigatory effort funded by the United States Government to study unidentified flying objects (UFOs) or unexplained aerial phenomena (UAP). The ...

that investigated

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s. On 5 June 2023, Blumenthal and

reported that former Air Force officer David Charles Grusch claimed that the United States has a secret UFO retrieval program with multiple vehicles of non-human origin as well as records of dead pilots in its possession.

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