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William Ramsey Investigates

The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack with Author Ralph Blumenthal. (2021)

William Ramsey Investigates

William Ramsey Investigates

News Commentary, News, True Crime, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 15 November 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Author Ralph Blumenthal discusses The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack. (2021)

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0:00.0

Hi, this is William Ramsey.

0:02.7

Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on Tonight Show of a very special guest.

0:05.9

I just finished his book this morning.

0:07.5

It's an excellent book.

0:08.2

I highly recommend you read it.

0:09.4

I was not very knowledgeable about UFOs.

0:11.5

I can't say it's my expertise, but I really felt like this advanced my understanding of the field.

0:16.5

The title of the book is The Believer, Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John

0:21.2

Mac.

0:21.8

And I'd remember seeing John Mack's videos on YouTube.

0:25.3

I found him to be an interesting character, and he really is a fascinating person.

0:29.5

And the author of the book is Ralph Blumenthal.

0:32.4

He just published this book February 21st, 2021.

0:35.8

So I'm delighted to have him.

0:37.4

Ralph has written six books. He was a New York Times reporter from 1964, Supreme Court. book, February 21st, 2021, so I'm delighted to have him.

0:38.6

Ralph has written six books.

0:43.2

He was a New York Times reporter from 1964, serving as a foreign correspondent in West Germany, South Vietnam, and Cambodia.

0:45.5

He was the National, a National Bureau Chief in the Southwest, and an investigative reporter

0:50.2

and arts writer.

0:50.9

He was a member of the Metro Des desk that won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking

0:54.5

news coverage of the 1992 truck bombing of the World Trade Center. So he has something in common

0:59.5

with John Mack. In 2017, he and two colleagues broke the story of a secret Pentagon program to

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