Ross Coulthart is an Australian investigative journalist, author, and documentary producer whose recent work centers squarely on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), commonly known as UFOs. He holds the position of senior special investigations correspondent at NewsNation and has authored In Plain Sight: An Investigation into UFOs & Impossible Science, a book that surveys global UFO cases, eyewitness accounts, and government documents while expressing concern over what he perceives as institutional cover-ups of extraterrestrial encounters. He has publicly stated that he believes governments possess knowledge—ranging from crashed craft to non-human entities—that has been hidden from the public. These claims are attributed to Coulthart’s interpretations of interviews and unnamed sources rather than verified physical evidence.

His professional track record includes decades in traditional investigative reporting in Australia: work on public affairs programs, print journalism, historical investigations, and major broadcast TV. That background gives him both credibility among those interested in disclosure and vulnerability to critiques from skeptics who argue that his UFO-focused reporting sometimes leans toward conjecture, especially when sources are anonymous.

From the public signals tied to his name:

• In commentary about Trump (as president or candidate), Coulthart has argued that simply ordering the release of UFO/UAP documents is insufficient unless accompanied by an executive order mandating declassification. He insists that without such forceful action, the files will remain inaccessible under existing classification and bureaucratic review systems.

• In one episode of Debriefed (Episode 76), Coulthart engaged with allegations about “legacy retrieval and reverse-engineering programs,” claims of internal government secrecy across private contractors, and the possibility of retrieved craft and non-human pilots. He emphasized ethical implications around what is recovered and how oversight—both legislative and internal—has allegedly failed to verify or disclose much of what insiders report.

Open questions remain: Which of Coulthart’s sources are independently verifiable; whether any material evidence corroborates the most extraordinary claims; and how much of government knowledge—even among agencies—is unified versus compartmentalized. His work may not satisfy standards of scientific proof, but among disclosure proponents it contributes to a broader pressure for transparency.