Trump briefed on secret UFO program, Ross Coulthart claims
Is the president getting the full UAP picture?
UAP Legacy Program folder on the White House Desk; UFO emerges outside. Image by Cybernews.
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- Ross Coulthart says Trump knows about an alleged crash retrieval and reverse-engineering program.
- Coulthart named Devin Nunes as a key figure, but the article says this does not prove program oversight.
- Reddit users reacted skeptically, reflecting wider distrust of politicians within parts of the UFO community.
- Coulthart also speculated that UFO disclosure may become harder to avoid, but his claims remain unverified.
Key Takeaways by nexos.ai, reviewed by Cybernews staff.
Journalist Ross Coulthart has said that the White House is grappling with the issue of UFO disclosure, but that President Donald Trump is fully in the loop.
Coulthart claims that President Trump now knows about an alleged longstanding crash retrieval program, which is allegedly responsible for intercepting non-human craft for reverse-engineering purposes.
Speaking on NewsNation’s Reality Check, Coulthart said: “I know the president knows full well now about the existence of the legacy retrieval and reverse engineering program.”
Coulthart said the effort is overseen by figures operating “at a very high level” within Trump's orbit, singling out Devin Nunes, chair of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board as a key figure in this process.
Who is Devin Nunes and why is he important?
Former Republican Congressman Devin Nunes chaired the powerful House Intelligence Committee from 2015 to 2019, allowing him the experience to oversee US intelligence agencies.
After he left Congress in 2022, Nunes became CEO of Trump Media & Technology Group, the company behind Trump’s social media platform Truth Social.
In February 2025, Trump appointed him chairman of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, which provides assessments of US intelligence activities. Despite having a genuine senior intelligence role, this doesn’t establish that Nunes oversees any UAP program.
The reaction on Reddit was dubious. Commenters pointed out that using such divisive figures to control the narrative and potentially run a psychological operation (“psy-op”).
It’s common in the UFO community to doubt politicians and suspect that the US could be covering up secret military tech.
These remain conspiracy theories. But outright distrust, like “I absolutely do not believe or trust this regime to do anything other than cheat or lie,” doesn’t correspond to the community waiting with bated breath for the government’s next move.
UFOs may soon be harder to hide
Coulthart went beyond claims about Trump's awareness, suggesting that the phenomenon itself may eventually become impossible to keep hidden from the public.
“It is more likely than not that it will show itself to people and allow itself to be revealed,” said Coulthart.
He speculated that the apparent increase in visibility could be “part of a steady conditioning,” adding that the phenomenon “doesn't want to alarm us” or “frighten us.”
By saying that he “wouldn't be surprised at all” if disclosure eventually revealed “a non-human intelligence engaging with this planet.”
It's not Coulthart's first time waxing lyrical about the topic. In May, he spoke out about how Trump had been briefed on the legacy program, and even said a White House statement about humans not being alone was imminent.
