Corey Goode is an American public speaker and online personality who says he served for two decades in a secret space program and has been in contact with benevolent extraterrestrials. He became widely known as co-host, with David Wilcock, of the Gaia streaming series Cosmic Disclosure from 2015 to 2018. No government record or independent source has confirmed his account, and his split from Gaia led to federal litigation that has run since 2020.

According to The Daily Beast, Goode says he was recruited as an "empath" at the age of six into the Secret Space Program and later served a 20-year term known as "20 and Back," during which he met friendly, bird-like beings he calls the Blue Avians. On his website he has described himself as part of a "Blue Avian soul group" brought to Earth to help with planetary ascension. The exopolitics writer Michael Salla, who wrote that Goode first appeared "in late 2014 as a whistleblower," became his best-known promoter, publishing interviews and briefings built on Goode's testimony about secret fleets, extraterrestrial alliances and a coming disclosure.

Goode joined Gaia in 2015, and by 2021, The Daily Beast reported, he had earned tens of thousands of dollars in alien-themed conference speaking fees. Wilcock quit the show in July 2018 with a resignation letter describing a Gaia program as involved in "Luciferian" activities, and Goode left the same year, saying a senior Gaia employee had abused and threatened him; Gaia said he had grown anxious because he was running out of material. About two months later Gaia began featuring Jason Rice, who said he too had served as an empath on "20 and Back" missions, an account Goode's lawyer called "a lackluster counterfeit" of Goode's story. Goode filed trademark applications for "Secret Space Program," "20 & Back" and "Blue Avians," which The Daily Beast observed would be an odd step if the program and beings were real rather than his own creations.

In March 2020 Goode and his company sued Gaia, several of its executives and others in federal court in Colorado, bringing claims that included civil racketeering conspiracy, trademark infringement, libel and slander. Gaia countersued, accusing him of defamation and of schemes to sabotage the company, including helping to circulate Wilcock's letter. Court filings show that the judge dismissed Goode's claims against some of the individual defendants, several of whom then sought attorney fees from him, and the case was still active in October 2026.

Filmmaker Darcy Weir traced Goode's rise in the documentary Dark Alliance (2024) and returned to the wider scene in Dark Alliance: The Next Generation (2026). In September 2026 Weir said Goode had used "completely fraudulent tactics" to have both films' trailers removed from YouTube through copyright claims, and he told NewsNation's Reality Check that a 2022 deposition recorded by Leon Isaac Kennedy's defense team sat at the center of the dispute, footage Weir says he used with Kennedy's permission. Goode's account of a 20-year career in space helped build a paying audience for secret space program stories on streaming television, and the trademarks, lawsuits and documentaries that followed have made him a central figure in disputes over who owns and profits from those claims.