EP. 115 AWARD WINNING 'NEW YORK TIMES' REPORTER & AUTHOR RALPH BLUMENTHAL ON HIS 2017 AATIP ARTICLE AND UFO CONGRESS

Award winning investigative journalist and brilliant author Ralph
Blumenthal, on his 45 year reporting career with the New York
Times, as well as his interest with the UAP topic. Ralph co-wrote
the groundbreaking 2017 New York Times article "Glowing auras and
'black money': The Pentagon's mysterious UFO program" which has
literally changed the topic of UFO's and unexplained military
sightings.





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Ralph's Professional Bio:  





Ralph Blumenthal is a Distinguished Lecturer at Baruch College of
the City University of New York, and summer journalism instructor
at Phillips Exeter Academy. He was an award-winning reporter for
The New York Times from 1964 to 2009, and has written seven books
on organized crime and cultural history.   


He led the Times metro team that won the Pulitzer Prize for
breaking news coverage of the 1993 truck-bombing of the World
Trade Center. In 2001, Blumenthal was named a Fellow of the John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to research the progressive
career and penal reforms of Warden Lewis E. Lawes, “the man who
made Sing Sing sing.” The book on Warden Lawes, Miracle at Sing
Sing, was published by St. Martin’s in June, 2004.  


During the coronavirus pandemic he has contributed articles to
The Times and other publications, worked from home on his Baruch
Archives blog, “An Adventure in Democracy”, and given virtual
talks on his new book, “The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard
Science, and the Passion of John Mack.”  


For more than 45 years, Blumenthal led an extensive and
illustrious career at The Times as Texas correspondent and
Southwest Bureau Chief (2003-8); arts and culture news reporter
(1994-2003); investigative and crime reporter (1971-1994);
foreign correspondent (West Germany, South Vietnam, Cambodia,
1968-1971); and metro and Westchester correspondent (1964-1968).
He began his journalism career as reporter/columnist for The
Grand Prairie Daily News Texan in 1963.


Blumenthal earned a Guggenheim Fellowship (2001), a Columbia
University Graduate School of Journalism Alumni Award (2001), and
the Nieman Foundation’s Worth Bingham Prize for distinguished
investigative reporting on USAir crashes. (1994.) He was named a
Townsend Harris medalist of the City College Alumni Association
in 2012 and inducted into the C.C.N.Y. Communications Alumni Hall
of Fame in May 2010. 


Since 2010 he has taught journalism in the high school
international summer program of Phillips Exeter Academy in
Exeter, N.H., and in 2010 was named a Distinguished Lecturer at
Baruch College where he taught journalism and currently oversees
historic collections in the Newman Library Archives.