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The New Yorker: 'How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously'

When: 30 Apr 2021
Sources: 2 public sources

Gideon Lewis-Kraus published a long New Yorker account of how UFOs moved from punch line to Pentagon concern, centered on journalist Leslie Kean and the 2017 AATIP story. It ran online weeks before a promised intelligence report on UAP was due to Congress.

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PressHow the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously (opens in a new tab)The New Yorker / 2021-04-30
OtherHow the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously (excerpt and link) (opens in a new tab)History News Network / 2021-04-30

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