Need to Know (NTK)
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OrgNeed to Know is a UAP current-affairs podcast associated with Ross Coulthart and Bryce Zabel, combining news analysis, source reporting, and commentary.
Need to Know is a UAP current-affairs podcast associated with Ross Coulthart and Bryce Zabel, combining news analysis, source reporting, and commentary.
Bryce Zabel
Ross Coulthart
Need to Know is a podcast and video program developed by journalist Ross Coulthart and writer-producer Bryce Zabel to analyze UFO and UAP developments. The series grew from their prior collaboration and combined Coulthart’s investigative reporting with Zabel’s experience in television, media history, and disclosure advocacy. Its conversational episodes respond to breaking stories while situating them within a longer narrative about secrecy and public knowledge.
The hosts discuss sources, documents, hearings, official reports, witnesses, and the media treatment of new claims. Coulthart has sometimes used the program to add context to reporting released through NewsNation or other venues. Because source-protection limits what can be shown, some consequential statements rest on the host’s description of confidential information. The podcast records those assertions clearly but cannot by itself provide the missing corroboration.
Need to Know closely followed David Grusch, congressional hearings, the UAP Disclosure Act, AARO, alleged retrieval programs, and the Nimitz case. Its combination of reporting and advocacy has helped maintain attention between major news events. It has also produced disagreements when a host stated a strong conclusion without presenting supporting evidence, illustrating the tension between privileged sourcing and the public’s ability to evaluate the claim.
The program’s importance to UAP disclosure is its continuity and access to central participants. It preserves how leading advocates interpreted events in real time and often identifies the policy consequence of a new development. Its most durable contribution comes when confidential reporting is later matched by documents or on-record sources, and when the hosts distinguish what they know firsthand from what they infer about the larger system. The archive also captures the hosts’ own revisions and disagreements, an important check on a narrative built partly from protected sources.
We agree with this overview, and encourage people to watch and judge for themselves. https://t.co/T1Lm9c3RAX https://t.co/aUC12VJOAv [Quoted] This issue is more than "He Said, He Said," even though it clearly is a dispute where both sides can't be a little bit right. One of them is not telling the truth. https://t.co/EjmI222uq8 Brent Friedman says he was a neighbor of former Secretary of Energy John Herrington and that, as an 18-year-old, he was asked to drive Herrington's cars (plus his pet)...
[Retweeted] This issue is more than "He Said, He Said," even though it clearly is a dispute where both sides can't be a little bit right. One of them is not telling the truth. https://t.co/EjmI222uq8 Brent Friedman says he was a neighbor of former Secretary of Energy John Herrington and that, as an 18-year-old, he was asked to drive Herrington's cars (plus his pet) across the country after he'd taken a job in the Reagan Administration. Friedman says that Herrington told him (in the summer of...
Probed ingest of: #34 THE HERRINGTON DENIAL — Sound, Light & Frequency
[Retweeted] This is not "He Said, He Said." Brent Friedman is telling the truth. John Herrington is not. Go listen to Brent react to Herrington's now public denial on SOUND, LIGHT & FREQUENCY wherever you get your podcasts. https://t.co/bopVSpP2mE
[Retweeted] YANKEE BLUE? A draft dated 29 May 1992, titled Special Access Program Supplement to the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual, contains a provision for 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐮𝐧𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐬. It describes their purpose as protecting the program from people without a need to know. It calls for believable explanations that conceal the contract’s true nature, subject to approval by the Program Security Officer. One sentence is p...
[Retweeted] Premiere TONIGHT: New Need to Know Bryce Zabel and Richard Dolan are back for a new episode exploring UFO hardware, consciousness, the latest UAP files, and what it could all mean. Join us tonight at 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT. https://t.co/TszGMjJ7Jz https://t.co/VTeyl1msOq
#78 Can the Phenomenon Be Both Hardware & Consciousness? — Need To Know — October 2026
▶️Everything you need to know about the viral Tehran UFO footage spreading online: Something unusual was filmed over Tehran, Iran this weekend, and the story is spreading quickly because there appears to be more than one angle of the same event. Several videos now circulating online show a bright, multicolored object or cluster of lights over the city. The footage has been picked up across Reddit, X, and mainstream reporting, but at this point there is still no verified identification for wha...
The fact that the 6th tranche dropped on Friday, and yet it still feels like a slow news weekend should tell you everything you need to know about the release. The public deserves so much more. #ufox #ufotwitter
Are we close to Disclosure and a speech from Trump? @jaystratton's words tell you all you need to know. Stratton: "The meetings I've been sitting in, even recently, I'm like, well, wait a minute, what did I do for the last 20-plus years? Why are we back to the drawing board for something?" And this... Stratton: "Disclosure isn't about what the government does next, it's about what those of us who were there do next."
