Lee Speigel

Lee Speigel is an American journalist who has specialised in UFOs and unexplained phenomena for more than half a century. Raised in Concord, New Hampshire, inspired by the Apollo missions, he established himself in New York in the early 1970s. In 1978 he delivered the only UFO presentation in United Nations history — as an official member of the Grenadian UN delegation and in direct cooperation with Prime Minister Eric Gairy.

• American journalist with more than fifty years of reporting on UFOs and unexplained phenomena
• Grew up in Concord, New Hampshire; established in New York from the early 1970s
• CBS documentary record album UFOs: The Credibility Factor
• Host of the NBC Radio show Edge of Reality with nearly 1,500 episodes; feature writer for OMNI
• In 1978 delivered the only UFO presentation in UN history as a member of the Grenadian UN delegation, key figure behind resolution A/33/426
• Joined AOL News in 2010, moved to full-time work at the Huffington Post in 2011
• 2012 "Researcher of the Year" of the International UFO Congress

For the UAP timeline, Speigel is the journalist who made the first UN engagement with UFOs (the Gairy resolution) organisationally possible — and at the same time the mainstream bridge-builder who anchored UFO coverage as proper editorial work inside major U.S. media houses.