A bombshell news report from The Debrief quotes an intelligence community whistleblower who says that the United States government has captured a craft of “non-human origin,” and has hidden the object from Congress and the public.

One of the journalists who wrote that report spoke exclusively on News 12 New Jersey’s Power & Politics program.

Leslie Kean also co-wrote a 2017 New York Times article that exposed a $22 million Pentagon program investigating unidentified flying objects. Kean says she began speaking with whistleblower David Grusch this past March.

“I've been aware of this for a while, and just so people know, there are many others in the wings who know the same information, they're just not ready to come forward on the record,” Kean says. “And some of them have already talked to Congress. So I think this is just the beginning of much more that's going to come out."

Kean is a member of New Jersey’s Kean political family. Her cousin is Republican Rep. Tom Kean, Jr. and her uncle is former Gov. Tom Kean Sr.