The Ripple Effect Podcast

Ralph Blumenthal is an author and the investigative journalist, who along with Leslie Kean, broke the story about the Pentagon's mysterious U.F.O. program with United States Air Force officer and former intelligence official, whistleblower David Grusch. Ralph was a reporter for The New York Times from 1964 to 2009, and has written seven books based on investigative crime reporting and cultural history. His latest book The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack was published by High Road Books of the University of New Mexico Press. It’s the first biography of Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard Psychiatrist Dr. John E. Mack (1929-2004) who risked an esteemed career to investigate stupefying accounts of human abductions by aliens. Ralph and his wife, Deborah, have collaborated on a nonfiction picture book for children, “UFOhs!RALPH BLUMETHALTWITTER: https://twitter.com/ralphbluWEBSITE: https://ralphblumenthal.com/BOOKS: https://ralphblumenthal.com/books/NY TIMES ARTICLE: https://www.n