For cable news, UFO story has ratings payoff — and reporting pitfalls

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For cable news, UFO story has ratings payoff — and reporting pitfalls
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NewsNation found good ratings in David Grusch’s murky claims of alien visitors but also had to correct Ross Coulthart’s reporting about the Intercept.

, appeared the next day in the Intercept — revealing the retired Air Force intelligence officer’s 2018 stay in a psychiatric facility and his wife’s concern that he was an alcoholic — the sourcing proved to be much less sinister.

Coulthart’s exclusive interview with Grusch in early June earned high ratings for NewsNation. The decorated Afghanistan combat veteran claimed in the broadcast that he had been told during his work with the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force that the United States possesses several spacecraft of unknown origin, including the bodies of pilots of an unknown species. Government officials say they have been unable to substantiate his claims.

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