Some people who came into contact with UFOs have later suffered from serious health issues. That's according to journalist and famous author, Leslie Kean.
In her latest podcast, UFO "Balloons," Afterlife, Cover-Ups, she explains how studies are currently on going at Stanford University and by government scientists exploring the side-effects these people claim to have experienced. Symptoms reportedly include blood disorders or cancer.
When explaining her understanding of a UFO, she told the podcast: "It incorporates so much more now than just a craft coming from another solar system or another galaxy. The phenomena takes so many different forms, it has so many abilities it affects people's consciousness sometimes, it has medical effects on people, it comes in just about every shape and size you can imagine.
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"The military has collected a lot of data on how the objects behave. So we have data about what they look like and how they behave.
"There have been some papers and writings about the medical effects, basically people who come too close to these things can have problems, can have blood disorders or cancer-related issues. There have been medical effects by people who have had close encounters.
"There have been Government-related medical doctors who have been studying these cases. Garry Nolan, the biologist from Stanford is involved with some of these studies. These people are affected when they get too close.
"Sometimes people have marks on their body after, or nose bleeds - but there are a lot more serious effects than that."
She said since 2017, there has been a huge shift in public perception after people learned the Pentagon had been studying UFOs for decades - and she claims there are convincing videos to go with the claims.
The investigative journalist said she knows lots of UFO claims can easily be dismissed, but she's only interested in the ones that 'no one can explain'.
"Now it's OK to take this seriously, the taboo has stepped into the background," she told the podcast. "We are in a new world with this. We've had legislation passed that's allowing witnesses and whistleblowers to come forward now.
"People have always been interested in this and now the lawmakers are involved and the Pentagon is involved, and that's all public, it's providing a whole different picture about what this is about."
She said there is still little knowledge about what a UFO is, but what is known is that we are being visited by something that's 'not human'.
The US government has received over 350 new reports of what the US government terms “unidentified aerial phenomenon,” commonly known as UFOs, since March of 2021 – roughly half of which are so far unexplained, according to a report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released in January.
According to the report, the Pentagon office responsible for tracking and studying the sightings has preliminarily identified 163 of the reports as “balloon or balloon-entities.” A handful of other reports have been attributed to drones, birds, weather events or airborne debris like plastic bags.
But “initial characterization does not mean positively resolved or unidentified,” the report cautioned. And the remaining 171 reported sightings of UAPs or UFOs continue to be unexplained by the US government.
Leslie's latest book Surviving Death has been made into a Netflix series. Find out more here. She has also written a number of articles for the New York Times. including No Longer in Shadows, Pentagon’s U.F.O. Unit Will Make Some Findings Public.
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