Reality Check with Ross Coulthart

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In this episode of "Reality Check," recorded at the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies conference in Toronto, Ross Coulthart sits down with professor Kevin Knuth, the University at Albany SUNY physicist and former NASA Ames researcher. His 2019 peer-reviewed paper in the journal Entropy estimated the 2004 Nimitz Tic-Tac at thousands of G with no sonic boom, no exhaust and no heat signature.

Knuth opens with the anomalous experiences that shaped him long before physics, from a childhood intuition on a Wisconsin bench seat to the night he and his toddler son both saw a boy standing at a bedroom gate in their Albany home. The conversation moves through the 1988 Montana cattle mutilations, the Malmstrom missile shutdowns and Knuth's own hypothesis for how a craft warping spacetime could knock out an ICBM's navigation system, and his account that AARO had a copy of his paper two months before Sean Kirkpatrick told the Senate no such peer-reviewed work existed.

He describes sonar data from a New Zealand Navy frigate showing an 800-foot object closing 2.5 kilometers in 25 seconds underwater, the UAPx sensor network now deploying radar and RF spectrum analysis in Connecticut, and the limits already placed on the new UAP Science Advisory Council, which has been told it will see only unclassified material. Asked what he wants most, Knuth says he would like to stand inside one of these crafts, and he has spoken with people who say it's possible.

#UAP #TicTacUFO #AARO

CREDITS
Host: Ross Coulthart
Executive Producer: Andy Gipson
Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick
Associate Producer: Will Tomasi
Research Producer: Rob Jones
Editor: Kanyon Lyons

On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines.

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CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
2:51 A Childhood Premonition
5:35 A Word from Our Sponsor, Odoo
7:02 The Boy in His Son's Room
14:22 Montana Cattle Mutilations, 1988
17:17 Malmstrom Missile Shutdowns
21:51 The 2019 Entropy Paper
23:26 Kirkpatrick's Senate Testimony
25:41 Energy Conservation and G-Limits
29:56 JAL 1628 and the NASA Report
35:42 UAPx Sensor Network
40:21 NDAs and Crash Retrieval
42:09 Transmedium Cases and Sonar Data
47:22 Stigma in Academia
52:03 The UAP Science Advisory Council

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Ross Coulthart explores mysterious untold stories using a fact-based approach to address various topics, from unidentified aerial phenomena to other mysteries that often go unreported. Now, he is turning to viewers, answering their pressing questions each week. In this week's episode, Coulthart tackles questions about President Trump's NDA-waiver executive order and why he says it doesn't go far enough to protect whistleblowers.

Plus, a report on drone incursions at White Sands Missile Range that Coulthart says is an attempt to muddy the waters on the real lure-and-shoot-down operation, including a new claim that nuclear technology is involved. He also dives into historical contact cases involving so-called "Nordic" humanoid beings. Coulthart reacts to Sandra Bullock's on-record UFO sighting account and delivers a passionate take on why the topic still gets mocked. And an explosive new report states that AARO is requesting private records from a database relating to UAP sightings. Ross confirms its existence and calls it the “most comprehensive” archive possibly in the world.

#UAPs #disclosure #AARO

CREDITS:
Host: Ross Coulthart
Executive Producer: Andy Gipson
Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick
Segment Producer: Will Tomasi, Christine Jenkinson
Research Producer: Rob Jones
Editor: Anthony Diasio

On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines.

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CHAPTER SUMMARY:
0:00 Intro
0:35 AARO requesting private records
4:46 Trump waiving NDAs
12:38 Are NHI allowing craft to be shot down?
19:14 20th century Nordic cases
26:39 Celebrity UFO sightings
31:06 Final thoughts

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In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with inspector Roy Teague, a serving West Midlands Police tactical firearms commander whose new book, "Close Encounters of the Police Kind," collects unidentified aerial phenomenon encounters from about 250 British police officers. Teague explains how a 2016 documentary on UAP over American missile fields led him to ask which witnesses the public would find hardest to dismiss and why he concluded the answer was serving police.

The conversation works through his strongest cases, among them a metropolitan police helicopter crew and an Army warrant officer who watched a dart-shaped aircraft over central London accelerate away and disappear into an opening in the sky in July 1997; an off-duty constable who lost two and a half hours on the A14 with his wife, his children and the family dog; and a Grampian officer whose MRI shows a small metallic object behind his right eye. Teague also details the pressure that follows these sightings, from a colleague grounded and quietly debriefed by the RAF at a private address in Croydon, to the senior officers who advised him to pick another subject to write about. Of the officers who came to him, all but nine agreed to be named and Teague argues the ridicule attached to this subject is exactly why so few of these accounts have ever surfaced.

#UAP #UFO #Britain

CREDITS:
Host: Ross Coulthart
Executive Producer: Andy Gipson
Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick
Associate Producer: Will Tomasi
Research Producer: Rob Jones
Editor: Anthony Diasio

On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines.

More Reality Check: https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart/

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CHAPTERS:
0:00 Intro
1:51 Why a Serving Inspector Started Asking
4:50 London 1997, a Police Helicopter
7:52 A Word From Odoo
9:21 What They Did With the Footage
16:40 Ninety Nine Percent Said Nothing
20:34 Missing Time on the A14
24:52 Aldridge 1971 and J. Allen Hynek
29:00 Aboyne 1989 and an MRI Scan
34:22 Benbecula, 640 Miles in 80 Seconds
37:38 PC Barman's Malta Photographs
40:50 A Black Triangle a Mile Wide
44:20 The Risks of Speaking Out
48:50 Sergeant Spinks and the Vigo Village Saucer
54:36 The Too Difficult Box
59:08 Chased Down the A19 in 1973
1:02:28 Todmorden, Adamski, and PC Alan Godfrey
1:10:06 The Hitchhiker Effect and 250 Officers

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Ross Coulthart explores mysterious untold stories using a fact-based approach to address various topics, from unidentified aerial phenomena to other mysteries that often go unreported. Now, he is turning to viewers, answering their pressing questions each week. In this week's episode, Coulthart tackles questions about the Majestic 12 documents and the alleged 1954 "Eisenhower Alien Treaty."

He also answers questions about Eric Davis' claim that the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program might still be active alongside a White House-authorized covert retrieval program and whether scientist Avi Loeb is being used unwittingly in a government disinformation effort. Coulthart addresses the mysterious disappearance of a U.S. general, ongoing drone incursions at an Australian air force base, new evidence tying Donald Rumsfeld to the legacy UAP program and why NASA has never released a single continuous video of a full orbit around the moon.

#AATIP #UFOs #UAP

CREDITS:
Host: Ross Coulthart
Executive Producer: Andy Gipson
Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick
Segment Producer: Will Tomasi, Christine Jenkinson
Research Producer: Rob Jones
Editor: Mariko Charvat

On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines.

More Reality Check: https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart/

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CHAPTER SUMMARY:
0:00 Intro
0:45 Robert Bigelow breaking his silence
3:41 Is the U.S. working with NHI?
7:51 Is AATIP still active under a new name?
12:24 Is Avi Loeb being used for disinformation unknowingly?
16:21 Missing sources
18:14 Drone sightings at Williamstown Air Force base in Australia
26:21 Donald Rumsfeld’s link to the legacy program

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In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with Daryl Johnson, the former senior security specialist at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, who spent more than a decade monitoring and trending every reported drone and UAP flyover at America's commercial nuclear power plants. Johnson reveals that close to 300 flyovers were logged between 2014 and 2025, with fewer than one percent ever traced back to an operator, and that the vast majority of plants still have no no-fly zone, no radar and no aerial detection requirement of any kind.

Johnson recounts the incidents that defied a conventional drone explanation, including a black triangle that hovered over Pennsylvania's Susquehanna plant for more than two hours in 2022 and a December 2024 incident near Virginia's Surry plant in which lights vanished and reappeared a mile away within seconds before ascending out of sight. Johnson also describes the resistance he met inside the NRC when he pushed for UAP reporting guidance, and the AARO data request that first put the phenomenon on his desk. His conclusion, drawn from his new book "Unguarded Skies," is blunt: something is observing us and we don't know what it is or who controls it.

#nuclearplant #UAPs #drones

CREDITS:
Host: Ross Coulthart
Executive Producer: Andy Gipson
Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick
Associate Producer: Will Tomasi
Research Producer: Rob Jones
Editor: Tony Diasio

On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines.

More Reality Check: https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart/

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CHAPTER SUMMARY:
0:00 Intro
4:04 What Are These Drones?
5:06 Why Nuclear Plants Are Targets
7:40 A Word From Our Sponsors
10:12 How Serious is this Threat?
11:08 Bigger Than a Vehicle
13:11 Two Hours Over Susquehanna
15:33 No Detection Equipment
17:09 Less Than One Percent Identified
18:09 Discovering the UAP Question
20:05 Where Plants Are Vulnerable
23:47 Lessons From Ukraine
25:43 Only Two No-Fly Zones
28:06 Fighting His Own Agency
32:09 Security Rolled Back
37:21 The Inexpensive Fix
39:26 How Japan Solved It
41:47 An Order Without Teeth
44:52 Triangles in the Archive
47:18 The Surry Incident
48:51 Laughed at by Management
52:14 Incomplete Data to AARO
55:57 "Something Is Observing Us"
1:00:20 Nearly 300 Flyovers
1:01:25 Told to Stand Down
1:04:29 A Secret American Craft?
1:06:08 The White Paper
1:08:25 The Pantex Contrast
1:11:07 No Aerial Detection Required
1:14:07 Can't Jam, Can't Shoot
1:16:26 Safer Skies and Cotton Bill
1:18:51 What Does He Think?