Leslie Kean, an investigative journalist, was about 1990 working for public radio in California when a contact in Paris sent her an English copy of the Cometa report by former French generals and others about "solid . . . unexplained objects in the sky." They analyzed lots of sights and decided about 5% could not "easily be attributed to earthly sources." These sober fellows wrote that the "extraterrestrial hypothesis" was the most logical explanation.
Leslie acquired a problem as she read the report, because it was a subject most of her fellow journalists thought "ridiculous, or titallating at best," yet she started looking soberly at it in some depth. She started to feel like she was covering up something "shameful and forbidden, like the use of an illegal drug." The story was journalistically elusive, contaminated by conspiracy theories, disinformation. She came to see the "aggregate data" on sightings as fully "compelling" and "mystifying."
She broke the news of the Cometa report in the Boston Globe and the story was picked up by many outlets. She figured it would make a news buzz and other journalists would go after the story. She was wrong. "Amazingly, nothing happened. It was as if everyone was pretending [unidentified aerial sightings] didn't exist."
As Luis Elizondo said in 2017, "the phenomena are real," and there's enough data to make that clear to anyone who studies it. And as Tucker Carlson said, "I don't see why this isn't more interesting than Vladimir Putin." Yet I doubt that Carlson ran a single follow-up story--because he's concerned that it would hurt his journalistic reputation.
All above is from Kean's book UFOs, 2010, Three Rivers Press, pp. 1-6.
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