Lee Speigel – 2014 MUFON Symposium

UFOs: ALL THE NEWS THAT’S FIT TO PRINT: FROM CAVE WALLS TO MODERN REPORTS, TO THE UNITED NATIONS AND THE INTERNET

LEE SPEIGEL has presented UFO stories to the public since 1975, when he produced and wrote a documentary record album, “UFOs: The Credibility Factor,” for CBS Inc. It marked the first time that military and scientific voices came together to disclose their personal UFO encounters and to call for government recognition of the phenomenon. It was the first UFO product offered to the public via a TV 2- minute commercial, and was one of the few UFO items — chosen by former Air Force Project Blue Book scientific consultant astronomer J. Allen Hynek — offered in the renowned Edmund Scientific catalog.

In 1978, Speigel’s second attempt at UFO disclosure took place on a world stage when he became the only person in history to produce a milestone presentation on UFOs at the United Nations. Also that year, he was the first to uncover written reports and hours of audio tapes at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., detailing a 1965 event where 12 UFOs flew all around Edwards Air Force Base in California in front of many military eyewitnesses. Speigel eventually wrote about the multiple UFO encounter for OMNI Magazine.

Between 1978 and 1986, Speigel produced, wrote and hosted nearly 1,500 local and national programs on NBC Radio, dealing with UFOs and unexplained phenomena.

In 1980, he was one of the first media reporters – through his NBC Radio features – to bring public awareness of the now-legendary 1947 Roswell, NM, UFO crash.

Speigel produced and wrote, in 1993, “Lincoln’s Music In America: The Classics In Space,” a national award-winning one-hour classical music special, focusing on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). Broadcast over the Concert Music Network, the program was co-hosted by astronomer Frank Drank, founder of the SETI Institute.

Since 2010, Speigel has written hundreds of stories about UFOs and unexplained phenomena for The AOL-Huffington Post Media Group, and in 2012, he was honored as the International UFO Congress Researcher of the Year.