Josh Boswell
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PersonJournalistJosh Boswell is a CBS News investigative reporter and former Daily Mail chief investigative reporter who co-wrote a run of UFO stories with Christopher Sharp.
Josh Boswell is a CBS News investigative reporter and former Daily Mail chief investigative reporter who co-wrote a run of UFO stories with Christopher Sharp.
Josh Boswell is an investigative journalist based in Los Angeles who joined the CBS News investigative unit as a reporter and producer in June 2026, after seven years at the Daily Mail. Most of his work has concerned politics and crime, but he also reported regularly on UFOs, usually with the British journalist Christopher Sharp.
Boswell joined the Daily Mail in 2019 and was named its chief investigative reporter in January 2026. The paper credits him as the first reporter to authenticate Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop with the help of cyber-forensics experts. According to the Daily Mail, his investigations of alleged Biden family corruption won first place for national political reporting at the Southern California Journalism Awards in 2023, and he won the same category in 2025 for reporting ahead of the 2024 presidential election. He also reported new information on the Black Dahlia and Zodiac murders, and the paper says his murder investigations led to the reopening of two cold cases.
His UFO reporting with Sharp began with a May 2022 story publishing newly obtained photographs of ground imprints from the 1994 Ariel School encounter in Ruwa, Zimbabwe, a sighting reported by more than 60 schoolchildren. In November 2023, Boswell, Sharp and the podcaster Matt Ford reported that three anonymous sources, each briefed by people involved, said the CIA's Office of Global Access had coordinated the retrieval of crashed UFOs since 2003; one source claimed at least nine craft had been recovered. The article quoted a Nuclear Emergency Support Team spokesperson saying the team had never encountered UAP-related material, while Joint Special Operations Command declined to comment and Representative Eric Burlison said he could not confirm the account.
The partnership continued into 2025 and 2026. In November 2025 Boswell and Sharp published retired fighter pilot Dan Isbell's account, given after 45 years, of a 50-foot triangular craft at a nuclear base, and a report arguing that video and incident logs from a police helicopter's November 2024 encounter with unidentified drones over a U.S. air base contradicted initial aviation officials' accounts. In February 2026 they reported remarks by Tim Phillips, a former deputy and acting director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, that "highly qualified observers" had detected objects in space that stopped and accelerated in ways known spacecraft do not. In March he and Stacy Liberatore covered the disappearance of retired Air Force Major General Neil McCasland in New Mexico.
At CBS News, where the investigative unit works under editor in chief Bari Weiss, Boswell's early bylines have focused on alleged Chinese intelligence activity in California. His Daily Mail collaborations with Sharp brought witness accounts and crash-retrieval claims to a mass audience. The 2023 Office of Global Access story drew renewed attention in 2026, when it disappeared from the paper's website in the spring and was restored in June, according to Ford and Sharp.
RT @ChrisUKSharp: This seemed like a good opportunity to recirculate my article with Josh Boswell from 2022: 'Never-before-seen photos rev…
This seemed like a good opportunity to recirculate my article with Josh Boswell from 2022: 'Never-before-seen photos reveal extraordinary wedge-shaped impressions and oval imprints left in a grass field by UFOs during famous 1994 sighting witnessed by more than 60 schoolchildren in Zimbabwe' https://t.co/YNCXDby6hT [Quoted] @technopopulist Why have they never landed in Africa, Australia, Europe, South America, Canada....or in fact anywhere outside Hicksville, Idaho....(or Kamchatka). Never in...
hmmm... maybe CBS News is getting interested in the phenomenon. @JoshTBoswell could certainly help out there. At any rate, congratulations to Josh. https://t.co/r68hZb6asi [Quoted] I’m joining @CBSNews investigations team! I’ll be an Investigative Reporter-Producer. That means some work on-camera, some behind it. I’ve had a great time at @Daily_MailUS, and was proud to serve there as Chief Investigative Reporter. I start the new gig Monday. So if you’ve https://t.co/FYSRYXaC9Z
The issue, @RepEricBurlison, is that there is a classified FISA workaround, a backchannel through which the IC/DoW informally requests that British MI-5 (or other Five Eyes partners) conduct technical collection on United States citizens when it is deemed necessary to bypass FISA. The classified collection is then handed back to the US DoW/IC. Hours after Christopher Sharp, Josh Boswell, and I released a bombshell article in The Daily Mail regarding The CIA Office of Global Access, I was trac...
Good news, that. https://t.co/EXKpQcxquK [Quoted] I am very happy to report that the Office of Global Access story is back on Daily Mail's website. Thank you to editorial for their efforts. I am very proud to have delivered this story alongside @GoodTroubleShow and @JoshTBoswell - it has aged extremely well and I hope it
I am very happy to report that the Office of Global Access story is back on Daily Mail's website. Thank you to editorial for their efforts. I am very proud to have delivered this story alongside @GoodTroubleShow and @JoshTBoswell - it has aged extremely well and I hope it continues to inform the UAP discussion. https://t.co/vVvEI6L80v
They Deleted Our UFO Story, Surveilled Me, and Are Spying on Congress - Splinter the CIA
The Daily Mail sometime between February 28th and now removed the article I co-wrote for The Daily Mail. Archived version here: https://web.archive.org/web/20260228120927/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12796167/CIA-secret-office-UFO-retrieval-missions-whistleblowers.html
@JoshTBoswell @ChrisUKSharp @realannapaulina @Daily_MailUS The article was taken down somewhere between February 28th and now.
🚨Daily Mail Removes Article About the CIA Office of Global Access UAP Crash retrieval program. Matt Ford co-wrote and article with Christopher Sharp and Josh Boswell regarding the CIA Office of Global Access UAP Crash retrieval program. The Daily Mail perma deleted the https://t.co/vQlF8LYwYn
