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Reality Check with Ross Coulthart

by Ross Coulthart · English · News

NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart digs into stories the media is supposedly not meant to tell, taking a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to other mysteries often missing from the headlines.

New episodes: Several times a week
Typical length: 51 min
Latest: 13 Oct 2026
Language: English

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13 Oct 2026 · 1 hr 2 minNew

'Archive X' and the impossible | Reality Check

In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with Jeffrey J. Kripal, the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University and host of the new six-part series "Archive X: Unexplained Phenomena." Kripal oversees Rice's Center for the Impossible, formerly the Archives of the Impossible, a collection that holds the papers of John Mack and Jacques Vallée among more than a million items on telepathy, near-death experience, abduction and precognition. The conversation opens with the nonverbal autistic children of the series' first episode and the place…

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11 Oct 2026 · 51 min
NASA chief says all UAP data released; Coulthart says no | Reality Check
Ross Coulthart and Meagan Medick open with a “Reality Check” exclusive: NewsNation’s Nancy Loo sat down with NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, who said the agency has already released all of its UAP data. Coulthart says that isn’t the case and he walks through the Apollo, Gemini and Skylab records he says are still unreleased. In this week’s episode, Coulthart tackles questions about the Apollo 17 “blue dots” film still under Pentagon and NASA review, the Defense Intelligence Agency’s announcement that it has found missing files and Jake Barber’s new claim that a cylindrical “mothership”…
6 Oct 2026 · 56 min
Mapping the Palomar transient hotspots | Reality Check
In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with astrophysicist Dr. Beatriz Villarroel, founder of the VASCO project at Nordita in Stockholm, and Vanderbilt's Dr. Stephen Bruehl, whose new paper suggests something in near-Earth space was flashing sunlight onto the photographic plates at Palomar Observatory years before Sputnik ever reached orbit. Projected back down to the ground, those flashes don't scatter at random. They cluster over some very familiar places, including the Pacific off Southern Mexico near where the Nimitz Tic-Tac encounter took place in 2004, the…
4 Oct 2026 · 44 min
David Grusch: Americans killed by reptilian beings at crash site | Reality Check
Go to https://ground.news/ross to get 40% off unlimited access to the news tool I actually trust. It helps you cut through the noise and understand how stories are being reported across the spectrum. 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 whether UAP disclosure is "screwed" if Republicans lose the House in the…
29 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 13 min
The 'real' secret space program | Reality Check
If you’re ever injured in an accident, you can check out Morgan & Morgan. You can start your claim in just a click without having to leave your couch: “The Lawyer You Choose Matters” https://www.forthepeople.com/Ross In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with Canadian documentary filmmaker Darcy Weir, whose films "Dark Alliance" and "Dark Alliance: The Next Generation" examine the secret space program stories promoted by Corey Goode, David Wilcock and the New Age conference circuit. Weir describes a 2022 deposition in which Goode stated he had never physically been to…
27 Sep 2026 · 53 min
US just deployed space weapons — here's what we know | Reality Check
If you’re ever injured in an accident, you can check out Morgan & Morgan. You can start your claim in just a click without having to leave your couch: https://www.forthepeople.com/Ross 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 of "Reality Check," Coulthart tackles questions about why he believes "catastrophic disclosure" may be inevitable, the science…
22 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 55 min
The case for UAP science | Reality Check
In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with professor Matthew Szydagis, an astroparticle physicist at the University at Albany SUNY, who was recently appointed to the UAP Science Advisory Council for the White House and federal agencies. Szydagis describes what the council can and cannot do without security clearances, including the more than 50 declassification requests its members have already filed and names the Varginha UFO case as the one he most wants disclosed. He walks Coulthart through the energy a Tic Tac maneuver would demand, and why he treats the claim that…
20 Sep 2026 · 43 min
Ross Coulthart Q&A: Coulthart: New whistleblower rules are 'not transparency'
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 why there is still no official government platform for ordinary Americans to report UAP sightings, whether DMT could ever be used as a legitimate research tool at Skinwalker Ranch, and the ongoing speculation around a major UAP-related event in 2027. He also breaks down the "zoo…
15 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 50 min
Jacques Vallée's final report | Reality Check
In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with Dr. Jacques Vallée, the astrophysicist, computer scientist and venture capitalist whose seven-volume "Forbidden Science" diaries have shaped UAP research for six decades. They discuss the final volume, "Forbidden Science 7." Vallée describes the data warehouse of some 260,000 sightings he built for the Bigelow Aerospace project funded by the Defense Intelligence Agency, why the work was cut off after roughly three years before the analysis he designed could run and the fact he has never been debriefed from his clearance. He…
13 Sep 2026 · 33 min
Ross Coulthart Q&A: Did nonhuman intelligence really warn astronauts off the moon? | Reality Check
Check Out Odoo, The all-in-one platform to manage your business. Odoo Link: https://www.odoo.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=influ-mkt&utm_campaign=erp1-newsnation2026 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 Q&A, Coulthart tackles questions about the Kordylewski dust clouds and whether they could be conscious, long-circulating claims that nonhuman…
8 Sep 2026 · 59 min
Physicist, former NASA researcher takes UAP seriously | Reality Check
Check Out Odoo, The all-in-one platform to manage your business at https://www.odoo.com/r/4gMN 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…
6 Sep 2026 · 32 min
Ross Coulthart Q&A: Pentagon wants access to private UFO archive | Reality Check
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1 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 16 min
Why 250 British officers finally spoke about 'close encounters' | Reality Check
Check Out Odoo, The all-in-one platform to manage your business at https://www.odoo.com/r/4gMN 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…
30 Aug 2026 · 40 min
White House authorized secret UFO 'retrieval' program, Coulthart says | Reality Check
Check Out Odoo, The all-in-one platform to manage your business Odoo Link: https://www.odoo.com/r/4gMN Go to https://ground.news/ross to get 40% off unlimited access to the news tool I actually trust. It helps you cut through the noise and understand how stories are being reported across the spectrum. 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…
25 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 22 min
'Something is observing us': Man tracks every flyover at America's nuclear plants | Reality Check
Go to https://ground.news/ross to get 40% off unlimited access to the news tool I actually trust. It helps you cut through the noise and understand how stories are being reported across the spectrum. 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…
23 Aug 2026 · 37 min
'Give us the authorization': David Grusch's direct message to Trump | Reality Check
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 alleged decadeslong U.S. Air Force disinformation campaign, Rep. Eric Burlison's confirmation of an alleged "luring and shoot-down" operation at White Sands Missile Range involving high-pulse microwave weapons, and why the national media has failed to press President Trump.…
20 Aug 2026 · 33 min
Secret Soviet UFOs: What happened when two scientists knocked on a door in Estonia? | Reality Check
Something metallic turned up under a garden in a quiet Tallinn suburb in 1969, and the Soviets spent the next twenty years trying to get it out, bringing in excavators and scientists and military, borrowing the house from its owners and living in it, digging on and off until perestroika ended the whole effort and they walked away. Astrophysicist Dr. Beatriz Villarroel and Ocean X co-founder Dennis Åsberg went to that address to find out what is still down there. Nobody came to the door, but the neighbor who had watched all of it from his window talked to them for an hour. This is their full…
20 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 1 min
KGB swarms suburban house in UFO hunt | Reality Check: Secret Soviet UFOs
The UFO story is not just an American one. As a new era of drone war rages in Eastern Europe, strange sightings in the skies invite questions about an overlooked Cold War mystery in the same region. Archive records beg an urgent question: why did the Soviets seriously investigate an alleged crashed UFO behind the Iron Curtain, and why can't anyone close the case today? NewsNation takes you on the ground to Estonia with the scientists pushing for answers, and the man who claims to have a piece of the mysterious "Object M." Features new interviews between Ross Coulthart and Dennis Asberg, Dr.…
16 Aug 2026 · 32 min
Ross Coulthart Q&A: Skinwalker's dire wolf, CIA cover-ups, and time-traveling UFOs
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 reported dire wolf recovery and DNA results at Skinwalker Ranch, the CIA's continued influence inside the ODNI following Tulsi Gabbard's exit, and whether the legacy program is in possession of technology that could make time travel possible. Coulthart also responds to a…
11 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 8 min
Object M: The buried Estonian mystery the KGB spent years trying to reach | Reality Check
If you’re ever injured in an accident, you can check out Morgan & Morgan. You can start your claim in just a click without having to leave your couch: https://www.forthepeople.com/Ross In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with Estonian filmmaker and author Mart Sander, whose new book, "Object M: Estonia's Buried Mystery," traces one of the strangest and least understood cases in Europe. In 1969, a man drilling a well in the Tallinn suburb of Merivälja struck something solid roughly seven meters down, and the fragments he broke loose eventually reached Soviet…
9 Aug 2026 · 34 min
Ross Coulthart Q&A: What really happened to Skywatcher? | Reality Check
If you’re ever injured in an accident, you can check out Morgan & Morgan. You can start your claim in just a click without having to leave your couch: https://www.forthepeople.com/Ross 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 the most requested question to date: What really happened to Skywatcher? The UAP research group founded by…
4 Aug 2026 · 42 min
Inside 'Kona Blue,' the alleged Lockheed-to-DHS UFO transfer | Reality Check
In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with a UAP researcher known online as "UAP Gerb.” Picking up where Part 1 left off, they dig into the "Immaculate Constellation" document and whistleblower Matthew Brown's claims about nonhuman and reproduction vehicle data. Gerb walks through "Kona Blue," an alleged DHS-brokered program in which Lockheed Martin material was reportedly diverted before the CIA shut it down. Coulthart presses the national security case for controlled disclosure, while Gerb raises troubling allegations: directed-energy attacks on people close to the…
2 Aug 2026 · 35 min
Coulthart on Elizondo: 'Still constrained by his security oaths' | Ross Coulthart Q&A
Go to https://ground.news/ross to get 40% off unlimited access to the news tool I actually trust. It helps you cut through the noise and understand how stories are being reported across the spectrum.In this week's episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart returns from Toronto's Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies conference to answer viewer questions. He tackles questions about how the Five Eyes alliance, the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, is coordinating on UAP disclosure, why Australia's Defense Intelligence Organization is dodging freedom-of-information laws, and…
28 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 3 min
The secret history of America's UFO 'legacy program' explained | Reality Check
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26 Jul 2026 · 36 min
Ross Coulthart Q&A: What species are the human hybrids? | Reality Check
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21 Jul 2026 · 38 min
Dr. Phil on UFO files: 'There has been a massive cover-up' | Reality Check
In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with Dr. Phil McGraw, the psychologist and television host the White House invited to review the latest tranche of UFO files before it reached the public. Dr. Phil explains why an administration weighing disclosure went looking for a trusted voice rather than an astrophysicist, and what changed his mind once he started reading the government's own words: from Lt. General Nathan Twining's 1947 assessment that the phenomenon was something real and not visionary, to the 1949 classified conference at Los Alamos convened over sightings…
19 Jul 2026 · 37 min
Ross Coulthart Q&A: Mars face debate, energy weapons, defining the 'legacy program' | Reality Check
If you’re ever injured in an accident, you can check out Morgan & Morgan. You can start your claim in just a click without having to leave your couch: https://www.forthepeople.com/Ross 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 "Mars face" anomaly, allegations that officials with the Office of the Director of…
14 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 51 min
Is there a ruined civilization on Mars? A theoretical physicist runs the numbers | Reality Check
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12 Jul 2026 · 36 min
John Kerry, UFO tech and fusion energy | Reality Check with Ross Coulthart
Ross Coulthart and Meagan Medick (@producermeagan) answer your questions each week on the "Reality Check Q&A." This week, they respond to Lue Elizondo's claims that NASA knows more about the UFO mystery than they are letting on. As new astronaut UFO files release, and ahead of another Reality Check deep-dive into lunar anomalies with Max Derakshani, what is the latest on a new investigation into the agency? Ross Coulthart also reveals new reporting on secret American bases in Antarctica: Could they be tied to a visit by former Secretary of State and presidential candidate John Kerry? Also in…
7 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 6 min
Inside NASA's UFO coverup culture | Reality Check
In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with Michael Gold, president of Redwire Space and a former member of NASA's UAP Independent Study Team, for a candid look at how the agency has handled the subject. Gold explains what the study team was actually asked to do, which was to weigh whether UAP was worth NASA's attention and what resources it could bring to bear, rather than to analyze the anomalous imagery already sitting in the agency's own archives. He is direct about the stigma that shadows the field, describing scientists warned they could lose their jobs, tenure…

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Latest episode: 13 Oct 2026
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