You've entered the Paracast with your host, Jean Steinberg and David Beedney.

Leslie Kane, you're one of those rare James Steinberg and David Beattie.

Leslie Kane, you're one of those rare people who have come into the UFO field with a background in traditional journalism. I have to say I do have a background in traditional

broadcast journalism, but I'm looking at your credits and you have covered a whole gamut of

very mainstream things so what led you to this crazy universe of ours thanks well that's a

that's an interesting question as you said i was just a kind of a what i might call a normal

journalist you know i was i had covered a range of topics and freelance media, I mean, published in a lot of newspapers like the Boston Globe and the Providence Journal.

And a whole range of newspapers before I came across the subject.

And I also was working for a public radio station in Berkeley, California, KPFA Radio, producing and hosting a daily news program.

So I was very active in sort of covering progressive news stories.

And what happened was a colleague from France sent me an English translation in the mail of the Commetta report out of France.

Now, I don't know if your listeners need an explanation as to what their report is, or can we assume that everybody knows?

Yeah, I think we can assume people know.

Okay.

So that report was sent to me, and this was an English translation, but the fun for you if our research did an English translation,

but I ended up with one before it was released to anybody else.

And as colleague in France said to me, this is your story, this is an exclusive, we're not

giving it to anybody else.

Here it is.

And I had had a little bit of an interest in UFOs over the years.

I'd read, you know, Whitley Streber's book, Communion, when it came out, and I'd read

things here and there, and was sort of curious, but that was it. I never thought that I would end up pursuing it in any way.

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