Episode 582: The Ripple Effect Podcast (Ralph Blumenthal | INSIDE The NY-Times UFO Article That Changed Everything)
The Ripple Effect Podcast
Ricky Varandas
4.6 • 603 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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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 BLUMETHAL
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NY TIMES ARTICLE: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html?_r=0
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| 0:00.0 | believe in the ripple effect. |
| 0:25.6 | The ripple fact. I'm gonna' I'm gonna I'm |
| 0:38.3 | I'm |
| 0:39.3 | Avaughan What's up, what's up? |
| 1:12.5 | Another episode of RipEffect podcast. |
| 1:17.1 | Of course, I'm your host, Rick Rutherandis, also known as Ricky Vrandis, and a great episode for you today. |
| 1:18.2 | I am very happy to be back. |
| 1:19.8 | It's been a while. |
| 1:20.8 | I've been very busy, and also I've had some crazy computer problems. |
| 1:25.9 | For some reason, during this interview with my returning guest, journalist, author, Ralph |
| 1:31.7 | Blumenthal, my computer just constantly crashed. |
| 1:35.1 | I could not get it to work. |
| 1:36.1 | I could not get it to record. |
| 1:37.9 | Unfortunately, I had to record this podcast with my laptop because it was a last resort, |
| 1:44.1 | and Ralph was very nice and polite |
| 1:46.1 | and just waited as I attempted to restart my computer, clean my computer, do a million |
| 1:52.1 | different things and try to problem solve and fix the problem, which I didn't. And then just |
| 1:57.0 | recently, finally after a week or two of trying to resolve this issue, I think my computer |
| 2:03.0 | is now working and healthy. And the good news is I did end up recording the podcast. The bad |
| 2:10.3 | news is I had to do it with my laptop and for some reason I couldn't get my microphone to work |
| 2:15.4 | with my laptop. So it was a webcam microphone |
| 2:18.7 | that ended up recording the conversation on my end luckily I think I cleaned it up and edited |
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