title: Ralph Blumenthal
text: # Ralph Blumenthal
  
  Ralph Blumenthal is an American journalist and author. He was a staff reporter for The New York Times from 1964 to 2009.
  
  ## Reporting
  
  On 16 December 2017, the New York Times featured an article written by Leslie Kean, Helene Cooper, and Blumenthal, which revealed the fact that the US Department of Defense had spent $22.5M on a secret program titled the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program that investigated UFOs.
  
  On 5 June 2023, Blumenthal and Leslie Kean reported that former Air Force officer David Charles Grusch claimed that the United States has a secret UFO retrieval program with multiple vehicles of non-human origin as well as records of dead pilots in its possession.
  
  ## Books
  
  * The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack (University of New Mexico Press, 2021)
  * Miracle at Sing Sing (St. Martin’s Press, 2004) ISBN 978-0-312-30891-9
  * with Deborah Blumenthal UFOhs! Mysteries in the Sky (2023)
  