Trump UFO file release sparks new disclosure frenzy as Corbell, Grusch, and Coulthard weigh in

This week, The Cosmic Report rounds up some expert opinions on what they thought President Donald Trump’s UFO file release would amount to, just days before the drop.

As another action-packed week draws to a close, chatter around disclosure day is going full throttle.

Heavyweight space podcaster Jeremy Corbell announced on May 8th that the White House had briefed him, along with fellow Weaponized host George Knapp, that the disclosure process would begin on the weekend, and we got it on Friday instead.

For anyone not au fait with what’s been happening, President Trump has said on numerous occasions that he would disclose decades' worth of buried Pentagon UFO evidence, despite what his predecessors say.

And when the time actually came for the files to be released, it felt surreal.

However it’s interesting to see what the UFO experts had on their minds, shortly before the big drop happened.

What could possibly happen next?

Corbell seemed to think that “it will be slow and steady at first” with “nothing shocking initially.”

In his post on X, Corbell pointed to the administration's positive noises about releasing something interesting and said the datasets on offer will hopefully convince more people to support the cause he champions.

Just now... sources in the White House as well as Congressional members tell me and @G_Knapp that the Presidential UFO file release will begin tomorrow.

We are told it will be slow and steady at first. Nothing shocking initially. Let's see where this goes! This is VERY… pic.twitter.com/g3QbEq48Ue

undefined Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell (@JeremyCorbell) May 7, 2026

“Substantive empirical holdings”

One of the most credible whistleblowers, Dave Grusch, used more formal language in an interview this week, pointing to potential "substantive empirical holdings” rather than straight-up Reddit fodder like UFO pics and clicks.

While he wasn’t explicit in his interview with Judicial Watch, Grusch could be talking about technical reports featuring multi-sensor tracking (of potential spaceships), or even lab analyses of test results from who-knows-what.

Grusch gave a useful, though not prophetic, timescale of 60 to 90 days, stating he believes in “coming together to advance humanity on the subject.”

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“We’ll still be teased”

The iterations of the UFO predicament make a lot clearer sense than the end of last week, at least.

One journalist who is always helpful in debunking unsubstantiated myths is Australian seasoned pro Ross Coulthard.

Speaking on Cuomo on NewsNation, Coulthard said he is expecting “very limited releases of maybe more blurry videos, maybe some good videos.”

Coulthard cut through the fog by purporting that “there is a reality that is being concealed from the American public and from the rest of the planet.”

He went on to say:

We’ll still be teased with the idea that there is a mystery there that’s worth investigating when we actually know the US government knows a great deal more.

This sings from the same hymn sheet as Barack Obama, who expressed reservations about secret sites that the US takes up, as conspiracies of reverse-engineering are commonly what drives the disclosure narrative.

Obama reckons “some guy guarding the installation would have taken a selfie with one of the aliens and sent it to his girlfriend.”

This might be a whimsical leap of the imagination, but it’s good, clean fun and less murky than what was going on last week.

And alas, we have the files!