Summary

Ralph Blumenthal is a veteran New York Times investigative reporter whose December 2017 co-byline on 'Glowing Auras and Black Money: The Pentagon's Mysterious U.F.O. Program' - with Helene Cooper and Leslie Kean - broke the existence of the AATIP program to the public and triggered the modern UAP disclosure era. With over 45 years at the Times, Blumenthal brought institutional credibility to UAP journalism and has continued covering the subject through subsequent reporting and his 2021 biography of Harvard psychiatrist John Mack.

Roles

• -Investigative Reporter, New York Times (1964-2009)
• -Author - The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack (2021)
• -Contributing Writer, The New York Times (post-retirement)

Organizations

Education

• -B.A., City College of New York, 1960

Early Career

• -Joined the New York Times as a staff reporter in 1964
• -Covered organized crime, the mafia, and corruption in New York City for decades
• -Investigated the Iran-Contra affair and Whitewater scandals
• -Co-authored 'The Stork Club' (2000), a history of the famous New York nightclub
• -Retired from the Times after 45+ years in 2009 but continued as contributing writer