Leslie Kean
Director

Leslie Kean is an investigative journalist who has published widely in national and international mainstream media, such as the Boston Globe, the Baltimore Sun, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Newark Star Ledger, The Nation magazine, the International Herald Tribune, the Globe and Mail, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Bangkok Post, the Irish Independent, and the Journal of Scientific Exploration, among many others. Her stories have been syndicated through Knight Ridder/Tribune, Scripps-Howard, New York Times Wire Service, Pacific News Service and the National Publishers Association. She is co-author of Burma’s Revolution of the Spirit: The Struggle for Democratic Freedom and Dignity (Aperture, 1994) published in three languages; and Henry Hyde’s Moral Universe: Where More than Time and Space are Warped (1999, Common Courage Press). Her essay is included in the anthology Stone Soup for the World: Life-changing Stories of Everyday Heroes (Three Rivers Press, 1999, 2002).

While she was also a producer and co-host for a KPFA radio daily news program in Berkeley, CA during the 1990's, Kean’s work as a freelance investigative reporter was supported by grants from The Fund for Investigative Journalism, the Open Society Institute of the Soros Foundation, the Threshold Foundation, the Vanguard Public Foundation and the Nation Institute.

In 2000, Kean published an investigative feature for the Boston Globe, syndicated by the New York Times wire service and reprinted in European media, about the authoritative French study “UFOs and Defense.” The following year her Providence Journal story about pilot sightings and aviation safety was widely syndicated through Knight Ridder/Tribune. Since then, her reporting has focused exclusively on providing serious, on-going coverage of the UFO issue for the mainstream media while she has been spearheading the many projects and initiatives of CFi.

Kean has been featured in documentaries for the History Channel, Discovery Channel, and SCI FI Channel, and her work has been covered extensively by radio, television and print media. She is a producer for the new James Fox documentary “I Know What I Saw” and is the subject of a second feature documentary now under production by Break Thru Films.
E-MAIL: lkean@ix.netcom.com

Larry Landsman
Co-founder and Associate

Larry Landsman has served the entertainment industry for three decades most notably as a television development executive and corporate communications professional with a proven track record of accomplishments in entertainment public relations and photographic services. Most recently, he served as Director, Special Projects for SCI FI Channel where he was responsible for developing original investigative programming, and overseeing the Channel’s public affairs initiative “Visions for Tomorrow.” Larry conceived and developed SCI FI's highest rated documentary specials including "Mystery of the Crystal Skulls," “The Roswell Crash: Startling New Evidence,” and “The Bermuda Triangle: Startling New Secrets.” He is the author of Planet of the Apes Revisited, with a foreword by Charlton Heston (St. Martin’s Press, 2001).

Larry and other SCI FI CHANNEL executives were instrumental in launching the Kecksburg initiative and in supporting CFi during the filing of the NASA lawsuit. Larry remains a close consultant to Kean and CFi.

Consultants

Major General Wilfried De Brouwer, Belgian Air Force (Ret.)
Stan Gordon, investigator
Richard Hall, researcher and historian
Lee Helfrich, Law Offices of Lobel, Novins & Lamont
Nick Pope, Ministry of Defence, UK, 1985-2006
Fife Symington III, Governor of Arizona, 1991-97

Website content director: Robert Mitchell robmitche@ca.astound.net