雷丝莉·琪恩

雷丝莉·琪恩（英语：Leslie Kean）是美国调查记者，以有关不明飞行物的报导闻名。

生平

出身于纽约市的一个政治世家，祖父罗伯特·基恩是联邦众议员，叔父汤玛斯·基恩连任过两届新泽西州州长。

琪恩毕业于巴德学院。90年代后期，琪恩在访问缅甸采访政治犯之后，开始在加州柏克莱市的广播电台KPFA担任“Flashpoints”节目的制作人和主持人。

2000年5月，琪恩在《波士顿环球报》上发表了她的第一篇关于不明飞行物的文章。其后，琪恩在调查不明飞行物的过程中，近距离接触了数百份政府文件、航空报告、雷达数据和具有确凿证据的案例研究，并采访过来自世界各地的数十名高级官员和目击者。

琪恩的著作《飞碟：全球国家机密档案大公开》（UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on Record）在2010年由兰登书屋出版，前白宫幕僚长约翰·波德斯塔为该书撰写前言，而知名物理学家加来道雄也称许了这本书；该书在出版后登上《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜。

2018 年，制片人萝拉·比克福德表示打算将把琪恩的著作《飞碟：全球国家机密档案大公开》改编为电影。2021年5月，宣布新线影业和HBO Max将联手开放该部电影。

琪恩还在2017年出版了有关死后生命的著作《Surviving Death》。这本书在2021年被Netflix改编为同名纪录片影集，琪恩担任顾问制片人。

2021年3月，《纽约客》杂志发表一篇报导，介绍了琪恩有关不明飞行物的工作。

Leslie Kean is an American investigative journalist and author of books about UFOs and the afterlife.

Early life and education

Kean is the daughter of environmentalist and philanthropist Hamilton Fish Kean (1925–2016) and the granddaughter of Congressman Robert Kean. Her uncle is former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean, and her cousin is Congressman Thomas Kean Jr. The New Yorker reported in 2021 that she has "a modest family income" (income derived from inherited wealth).

She grew up in New York City and attended Spence School and Bard College, and helped "to found a Zen center in upstate New York".

Career

Kean worked as a photographer at the Lab of Ornithology at Cornell University.

After visiting Burma to interview political prisoners in the 1990s, she began working as an investigative journalist, producer, and on-air host at KPFA, a Berkeley, California-based radio station and the flagship station of the Pacifica Radio Network and for Flashpoints, a left-wing drive-time news program covering wrongful convictions, the death penalty, and other criminal-justice issues.

Kean has published works relating to UFOs since 2000, and has been a guest on Coast to Coast AM. Her book UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record, published by Penguin Random House, was a New York Times best seller. Kean belongs to the UFO organization UFODATA.

On December 16, 2017, The New York Times featured an article written by Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal and Kean, which revealed the fact that the U.S. Department of Defense had spent $22.5M on a secret program titled the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program that investigated UFOs.

According to Gideon Lewis-Kraus in April 2021, Kean has a photo of a purported UFO hanging on a wall behind her desk that was gifted to her by the Costa Rican government. This photo was taken by the Costa Rican National Geographic Institute in 1971 over Lake Cote and is considered by Kean to be "the finest image of a U.F.O. ever made public". On 5 June 2023, Kean and writer Ralph Blumenthal reported that former United States Air Force officer and intelligence official David 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.

Written works

1994. Burma's Revolution of the Spirit: The Struggle for Democratic Freedom and Dignity – with Alan Clements. ISBN 978-0893815806.

2010. UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record - with a foreword by John Podesta, Harmony Books, New York. ISBN 978-0307716842.

2017. Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife. ISBN 978-0553419610.