Personal Life
In the mid-to-late 1950s, Leon volunteered at the Civil Defense Filter Center in White Plains, helping track and identify aircraft flying over the New York metropolitan area. He devoted much of his free time to the study of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). He convinced a Congressional Committee to force the Air Force to permit him to publish and distribute, in its entirety, the Air Force's Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14, the primary source book on the Air Force’s findings related to UFO’s.
An avid thinker, Leon spent many hours analyzing major national and world events including the Kennedy assassination, questionable Presidential elections, and the Jonestown (Guyana) Massacre.
Leon died in White Plains Hospital on New Year's Day 2007. His ashes are buried in White Plains, New York, He is succeeded by his wife, Doris, his 3 children (Ed, Carole, and Martha), his two granddaughters (Leah and Rachel), and his three great-grandsons (Alex, Wesley, and Nathan).
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