Reality Check with Ross Coulthart

Reality Check with Ross Coulthart

By Ross Coulthart

NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart digs into stories the media is supposedly not meant to tell, taking a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UA

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  1. Number 1: 'Something is observing us': Man tracks every flyover at America's nuclear plants | Reality Check

    Go to https://ground.news/ross to get 40% off unlimited access to the news tool I actually trust. It helps you cut through the noise and understand how stories are being reported across the spectrum. In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with Daryl Johnson, the former senior security specialist at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, who spent more than a decade monitoring and trending every reported drone and UAP flyover at America's commercial nuclear power plants. Johnson reveals that close to 300 flyovers were logged between 2014 and 2025, with fewer than one percent ever traced back to an operator, and that the vast majority of plants still have no no-fly zone, no radar and no aerial detection requirement of any kind. Johnson recounts the incidents that defied a conventional drone explanation, including a black triangle that hovered over Pennsylvania's Susquehanna plant for more than two hours in 2022 and a December 2024 incident near Virginia's Surry plant in which lights vanished and reappeared a mile away within seconds before ascending out of sight. Johnson also describes the resistance he met inside the NRC when he pushed for UAP reporting guidance, and the AARO data request that first put the phenomenon on his desk. His conclusion, drawn from his new book "Unguarded Skies," is blunt: something is observing us and we don't know what it is or who controls it. #nuclearplant #UAPs #drones CREDITS: Host: Ross Coulthart Executive Producer: Andy Gipson Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick Associate Producer: Will Tomasi Research Producer: Rob Jones Editor: Tony Diasio On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines. More Reality Check: https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart/ Email your questions to [email protected] NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans. More from NewsNation: https://www.newsnationnow.com/ Get our app: https://trib.al/TBXgYpp Find us on your screen: https://www.joinnn.com/ CHAPTER SUMMARY: 0:00 Intro 4:04 What Are These Drones? 5:06 Why Nuclear Plants Are Targets 7:40 A Word From Our Sponsors 10:12 How Serious is this Threat? 11:08 Bigger Than a Vehicle 13:11 Two Hours Over Susquehanna 15:33 No Detection Equipment 17:09 Less Than One Percent Identified 18:09 Discovering the UAP Question 20:05 Where Plants Are Vulnerable 23:47 Lessons From Ukraine 25:43 Only Two No-Fly Zones 28:06 Fighting His Own Agency 32:09 Security Rolled Back 37:21 The Inexpensive Fix 39:26 How Japan Solved It 41:47 An Order Without Teeth 44:52 Triangles in the Archive 47:18 The Surry Incident 48:51 Laughed at by Management 52:14 Incomplete Data to AARO 55:57 "Something Is Observing Us" 1:00:20 Nearly 300 Flyovers 1:01:25 Told to Stand Down 1:04:29 A Secret American Craft? 1:06:08 The White Paper 1:08:25 The Pantex Contrast 1:11:07 No Aerial Detection Required 1:14:07 Can't Jam, Can't Shoot 1:16:26 Safer Skies and Cotton Bill 1:18:51 What Does He Think?

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  2. Number 2: 'Give us the authorization': David Grusch's direct message to Trump | Reality Check

    Ross Coulthart explores mysterious untold stories using a fact-based approach to address various topics, from unidentified aerial phenomena to other mysteries that often go unreported. Now, he is turning to viewers, answering their pressing questions each week. In this week's episode, Coulthart tackles questions about the alleged decadeslong U.S. Air Force disinformation campaign, Rep. Eric Burlison's confirmation of an alleged "luring and shoot-down" operation at White Sands Missile Range involving high-pulse microwave weapons, and why the national media has failed to press President Trump. Plus, Coulthart responds to a viewer question on alleged Chinese government contact with reptilian entities and China's own UFO crash-retrieval program. #DavidGrusch #UFOs #UAPs CREDITS: Host: Ross Coulthart Executive Producer: Andy Gipson Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick Segment Producer: Christine Jenkinson, Will Tomasi Research Producer: Rob Jones Editor: Mariko Charvat On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines. More Reality Check: https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart/ Email your questions to [email protected] NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans. More from NewsNation: https://www.newsnationnow.com/ Get our app: https://trib.al/TBXgYpp Find us on your screen: https://www.joinnn.com/ CHAPTER SUMMARY: 0:00 Intro 1:36 Ross responds to Grusch’s new claims 9:38 Reddit leak about a disinformation campaign ran from an air force base 16:20 Rep. Burlison’s claims that the U.S. government is downing UAPs 19:00 Why doesn’t the media ask Trump directly about UAPs 29:05 Reports of Chinese government contact with NHI 34:08 Final thoughts

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  3. Number 3: Ross Coulthart Q&A: Skinwalker's dire wolf, CIA cover-ups, and time-traveling UFOs

    Ross Coulthart explores mysterious untold stories using a fact-based approach to address various topics, from unidentified aerial phenomena to other mysteries that often go unreported. Now, he is turning to viewers, answering their pressing questions each week. In this week's episode, Coulthart tackles questions about the reported dire wolf recovery and DNA results at Skinwalker Ranch, the CIA's continued influence inside the ODNI following Tulsi Gabbard's exit, and whether the legacy program is in possession of technology that could make time travel possible. Coulthart also responds to a retired detective's daytime sighting of a silver metallic cylinder over a Southern California freeway and why the phenomenon may be capable of manipulating who does and doesn't see it. Plus: new details on Admiral Thomas Wilson's alleged legacy-program briefing to Dr. Eric Davis, why his national security oath may outlast any presidential order, and whether Soviet-era "underwater beings" have anything to do with modern USO (Unidentified Submerged Objects) sightings.Watch Unreported with Meagan Medick here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6PrA6lo8rJKtTsTq9eAtpNdZzuyST-R-Ross' interviews with Brandon Fugal 2025: Skinwalker Ranch owner says former AARO Director Sean Kirkpatrick lied, shows proof | Reality Checkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtilGOcNmgYRoss' interviews with Brandon Fugal 2024: Skinwalker Ranch, Oak Island curse and Kona Blue | Reality Checkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNEJaw-ErksRoss' interview with Jacques Vallée Jacques Vallée: Project Blue Book, space travel and military secrecy | Reality Checkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqptVKs7wbcReality Check: Underwater UFOs with Richard Dolan interview Reality Check with Ross Coulthart: Underwater UFOshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbvorziWMm8CHAPTER SUMMARY:0:00 Intro0:36 Reaction to Jesse Michael’s interview with Brandon Fugal5:50 Lack of reports from Brandon Fugal on Skinwalker Ranch8:24 Aaron Lukas’ role at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence11:50 Has the legacy program cracked time travel?17:39 Why does the phenomenon only reveal themselves to certain experiencers22:37 Was Admiral Thomas Wilson recruited to the legacy program?26:12 Is there a connection between mermaids and USOs?29:02 Final thoughtsCREDITS:Host: Ross CoulthartExecutive Producer: Andy GipsonEditorial Producer: Meagan MedickSegment Producer: Christine Jenkinson, Will TomasiResearch Producer: Rob JonesEditor: John NockOn "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines. More Reality Check: https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart/ Email your questions to [email protected] NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans. More from NewsNation: https://www.newsnationnow.com/ Get our app: https://trib.al/TBXgYpp Find us on your screen: https://www.joinnn.com/

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  4. Number 4: KGB swarms suburban house in UFO hunt | Reality Check: Secret Soviet UFOs

    The UFO story is not just an American one. As a new era of drone war rages in Eastern Europe, strange sightings in the skies invite questions about an overlooked Cold War mystery in the same region. Archive records beg an urgent question: why did the Soviets seriously investigate an alleged crashed UFO behind the Iron Curtain, and why can't anyone close the case today? NewsNation takes you on the ground to Estonia with the scientists pushing for answers, and the man who claims to have a piece of the mysterious "Object M." Features new interviews between Ross Coulthart and Dennis Asberg, Dr. Beatriz Villarroel, and Mart Sander. Watch the full interview with Mart Sander here: https://youtu.be/OQULI6QqIhY?si=LahZm4UFT_lF4PmY Follow Reality Check on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/@RealityCheckNN CHAPTER SUMMARY 0:00 The Drone Wars 2:49 Stalin and the Soviet Union 4:56 George Knapp smuggles Soviet KGB files out of Russia 13:08 David Grusch: U.S. in UFO Cold War with Russia & China 15:47 Dennis Asberg and Beatriz Villarroel investigating 'Object M' 19:24 Why KGB flooded this Estonian suburb 26:30 Meet Igor Volke, Estonian UFOlogist 28:43 NewsNation visits the so-called 'UFO House' 33:17 Meet Mart Sander & where is 'Object M' today? 46:10 Can testing results on 'Object M' be trusted? 50:05 Estonia's long history of UFO sightings 54:28 How NATO nations monitor airspace today in former Soviet Union 57:22 Russian drone incursions 1:00:07 Ross Coulthart's Closing Message CREDITS: Host: Ross Coulthart Executive Producer: Andy Gipson Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick Associate Producer: Will Tomasi Research Producer: Robert Jones Editor: Kanyon Lyons Photographer: Augustin ‘Gus’ Chauvet Designers: Lauren Cowin, Doug Howell Additional footage and images provided by: Getty, Associated Press, Enigma Labs, Mart Sander, Timo Tahvanainen | YT Shadow Camera, Jesse Michels, KLAS-TV #ufo #kgb #sovietunion #realitycheck #rosscoulthart #newsnation On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines. More Reality Check: https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart/ Email your questions to [email protected] NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans. More from NewsNation: https://www.newsnationnow.com/ Get our app: https://trib.al/TBXgYpp Find us on your screen: https://www.joinnn.com/

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  5. Number 5: Secret Soviet UFOs: What happened when two scientists knocked on a door in Estonia? | Reality Check

    Something metallic turned up under a garden in a quiet Tallinn suburb in 1969, and the Soviets spent the next twenty years trying to get it out, bringing in excavators and scientists and military, borrowing the house from its owners and living in it, digging on and off until perestroika ended the whole effort and they walked away. Astrophysicist Dr. Beatriz Villarroel and Ocean X co-founder Dennis Åsberg went to that address to find out what is still down there. Nobody came to the door, but the neighbor who had watched all of it from his window talked to them for an hour. This is their full conversation with Ross Coulthart, recorded for "Secret Soviet UFOs" and running well past what the special had room for. Villarroel walks through the peer-reviewed work that brought her to Estonia, highly reflective objects photographed in orbit years before anyone on Earth had launched a satellite, and why she thinks the same search belongs in the ground. Åsberg ties Merivälja to the Baltic Sea anomaly his team found on sonar roughly 300 kilometers away and argues that both could predate the last ice age. Between them, they count five European cases and will not give up the coordinates of one of them. What nobody can answer yet is what sits under that garden, and the only thing that would settle it is ground-penetrating radar in the yard of a man who has already told them no. This interview is part of our Secret Soviet UFOs special, which you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-vjO5Xn56s Watch the full interview with Mart Sander here: https://youtu.be/OQULI6QqIhY?si=LahZm4UFT_lF4PmY Follow Reality Check on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/ ⁨@RealityCheckNN⁩ #ObjectM #Estonia #UAP CREDITS: Host: Ross Coulthart Executive Producer: Andy Gipson Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick Associate Producer: Will Tomasi Research Producer: Rob Jones Editor: Anthony Diasio On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines. More Reality Check: https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart/ Email your questions to [email protected] NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans. More from NewsNation: https://www.newsnationnow.com/ Get our app: https://trib.al/TBXgYpp Find us on your screen: https://www.joinnn.com/ CHAPTER SUMMARY: 0:00 Intro 1:55 The European Crash Retrieval Initiative 3:09 The Australian Who Sent the Tip 4:39 The Whole Street Knows 5:44 An Unanswered Door, and an Hour With the Neighbor 7:13 Is It Still Down There? 10:03 Reflective Objects Before Satellites 12:00 The Nuremberg Engraving and The Baltic Sea Anomaly Connection 14:22 Five Cases, Coordinates Withheld 16:16 Dead Sensors and KGB Reports 17:41 Too Large to Move 19:13 The Japanese Radar Survey 21:45 Twenty Years in the House 23:14 The 2017 Analysis 24:53 Before the Last Ice Age 27:58 Why Science Assumes the Mundane 30:17 How to Reach Us

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