Summary

Pentagon correspondent for The New York Times who co-authored the December 16, 2017 article 'Glowing Auras and Black Money: The Pentagon's Mysterious U.F.O. Program' — the single most consequential UAP story in modern journalistic history. Written with Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal, the article revealed the existence of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), published the GIMBAL and FLIR1 videos, and simultaneously launched the modern UAP disclosure era and mainstream press coverage of the phenomenon. Cooper served as the institutional anchor of the piece, lending the credibility of a seasoned Pentagon correspondent to the story at a moment when most editors would not have touched the subject.

Roles

• -Pentagon Correspondent, The New York Times
• -Co-Author — 'Glowing Auras and Black Money' (NYT, December 16, 2017)
• -Author — The House at Sugar Beach (2008)

Organizations

Education

• -B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Early Career

• -Born in Monrovia, Liberia in 1966; fled Liberia following the 1980 military coup led by Master Sergeant Samuel Doe
• -Relocated to the United States; documented her early life and the Liberian experience in the memoir The House at Sugar Beach (2008)
• -Began journalism career at The Wall Street Journal, covering international economic affairs
• -Joined The New York Times; rose to serve as a White House correspondent and later Pentagon correspondent