Leslie Kean reports the French COMETA study in the Boston Globe

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Journalist Leslie Kean wrote about a 1999 French report on UFOs by retired officers and experts (the COMETA report) for the Boston Globe, which ran it after about six months of pitching. Kean later said the paper heavily edited it. She went on to co-write the 2017 New York Times story.

Sources

  1. PressThe woman who forced the US government to take UFOs seriously (opens in a new tab)The Guardian (via Yahoo News) / 2021-06-14
  2. PressHow the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously (The New Yorker, repost) (opens in a new tab)History News Network / 2021-04-30

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This reports on COMETA report published (1999).

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