Matthew Tuttle is an American investment manager and the founder, chief executive and chief investment officer of Tuttle Capital Management, an exchange-traded fund firm based in Riverside, Connecticut. Known for thematic and contrarian funds, he entered the UAP story in 2026 when his firm launched the Tuttle Capital UFO Disclosure ETF, ticker UFOD, an actively managed fund built on the premise that official disclosure of advanced technology tied to unidentified anomalous phenomena could move markets.

Tuttle studied at Clark University and Boston University, according to his firm, and founded Tuttle Capital Management in 2012. The firm describes him as having more than two decades of investment management experience and as a regular commentator on Bloomberg Television, Fox Business and Schwab Network. It gained wide attention in November 2021 with the Tuttle Capital Short Innovation ETF, ticker SARK, a Nasdaq-listed fund designed to deliver the inverse daily return of Cathie Wood's ARK Innovation ETF. Tuttle argued it let investors bet against ARK without the short squeezes and margin calls of shorting directly, and the fund grew to about $234 million in assets by January 2022. The firm later ran an Inverse Cramer ETF, liquidated in 2024, and has launched dozens of funds, including the T-REX family of leveraged single-stock ETFs co-issued with REX Shares.

UFOD began trading on February 5, 2026. Its materials say it invests in companies positioned to benefit from "government disclosure, confirmation, or exploitation" of technologies tied to UAP, concentrating on aerospace, defense, advanced materials, sensing and energy, while its own risk disclosures call the theme "highly speculative and subject to rumor cycles." Liberation Times reported in May 2026 that its largest holdings included Amentum, Palantir, American Superconductor, Rocket Lab and Lockheed Martin. Tuttle told the outlet's Christopher Sharp that the fund is "really not about UFO disclosure" but about the disclosure of technology he believes governments already hold.

Tuttle frames that thesis around what he calls a "secret gap" between classified and public technology. He has argued that energy and propulsion breakthroughs would hit markets harder than an announcement of alien life, which he doubts would crash stocks on its own, and has suggested that investors could bet against oil and utilities. He has identified legal immunity for whistleblowers as the clearest catalyst, since insiders testifying without it would incriminate themselves. In June 2026 he sat for a full episode of NewsNation's Reality Check with Ross Coulthart, discussing disclosure obligations of listed defense contractors, Lockheed Martin chief executive James Taiclet's remarks about "magical" and "game-changing" company technology, and whether disclosure would trigger a market shock.

NewsNation, which also reported his view that the United States and rival nations have likely been developing ways to harness energy from the quantum field, described UFOD as one of the first U.S.-listed ETFs built explicitly around the UAP disclosure thesis. The fund made Tuttle a recurring voice in UFO-focused media during the 2026 disclosure push, extending a career built on packaging contrarian market themes into products ordinary investors can trade.