Who they are
Helene Cooper coauthored the December 2017 New York Times report on the Pentagon UFO program with Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean. The online listing and print byline identify all three authors. Her role here is journalism that brought official funding and program accounts into a much broader public conversation.
She connects the timeline to the reporting that helped frame the modern disclosure debate.
Selected contributions
- Coauthored the 2017 Pentagon-program article, published online December 16 and in print December 17.Source ↗Source 2 ↗
Selected works
Journalism · 2017
Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program
Cooper, Blumenthal and Kean report on the Pentagon UFO program, its funding and accounts from participants. This is contemporary journalism about the program, distinct from its underlying government records.
Online December 16, 2017; print December 17 as “Real U.F.O.s? Pentagon Unit Tried to Know.”
Reading scope & citation
Coauthor’s article listing plus front-page opening/byline of coauthor-hosted print scan inspected; direct NYT retrieval failed. No complete article audit claimed.
In the timeline
- Dec 16, 2017 – Dec 17, 2017The story reaches the front page
Biography sources & portrait credit
- Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Non-Human Craft ↗The Debrief
- New York Times, “Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program” by Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean ↗Leslie Kean
- Real U.F.O.s? Pentagon Unit Tried to Know ↗The New York Times; print extract hosted by coauthor Leslie Kean
Portrait credit
Shearmichaeld. CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.
Photograph. Cropped to 4:5, resized to 320 × 400 and converted to WebP.
