Case file · Disclosure & CE-5
Ross Coulthart
Australian investigative journalist (b. 1962) and NewsNation correspondent who interviewed David Grusch in June 2023.
2023 CE · 38.91, -77.04 · status: claim
The account
A veteran of Australian current-affairs TV, Coulthart wrote 'In Plain Sight' (2021) about UFOs and co-hosted the podcast 'Need To Know'. His 2023 NewsNation interview with Grusch carried the whistleblower's claims to a television audience, and Coulthart has argued that the US runs a secret retrieval programme.
The sceptical view
ABC's Media Watch questioned the lack of evidence for his claims, Australian Skeptics gave him its 2023 Bent Spoon award, and a 1995 review found an earlier programme of his 'skewed towards the false'.