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 breaks down the White House's new UAP Governance Board, warning it could become another "toothless tiger" like Project Blue Book, lacking subpoena power and reliant on the Pentagon's goodwill.

He also makes the case for whistleblower amnesty, drawing on his experience covering South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission to argue why immunity may be the only realistic path to real disclosure. Plus, Coulthart digs into newly surfaced Apollo 16 audio describing unexplained gravity and gamma-ray anomalies near the dark side of the moon.

Watch Unreported with Meagan Medick here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6PrA6lo8rJKtTsTq9eAtpNdZzuyST-R-

#UAP #GovernanceBoard #WhiteHouse

CREDITS:

Host: Ross Coulthart

Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

Segment Producer: Christine Jenkinson

Associate Producer: Will Tomasi

Research Producer: Rob Jones

Editor: Sarah Jackson

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.

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CHAPTER SUMMARY:

:50 UAP governance board

5:45 Concerns that disclosure is being stalled

12:46 David Grusch’s revelations

19:14 Amnesty for whistleblowers

23:33 Dark side of the moon

29:43 Ross on the World Cup

Jonathan Caplan KC, a veteran British barrister and King’s Counsel, joins Ross Coulthart this week for "Reality Check" to discuss Caplan's new book Not For Disclosure, the culmination of 50 years investigating the UAP mystery. Applying the same evidentiary standards he used in court, Caplan explains why he believes the phenomenon deserves serious attention.

Ross asks what Britain may quietly know about UAPs, which UK cases are most credible, and what to make of persistent claims involving British special forces and crash retrievals. The conversation also explores Prince Philip’s interest in UFOs, reports of UFO-curious British nobility, and the mysterious figure Air Marshal Sir Peter Horsley called “Mr. Janus.”

A major focus is the controversial Majestic 12 documents. Caplan explains why he considers key papers authentic, addresses claims they were forged, and examines documents tied to Timothy Cooper, Ryan Wood, White Sands, Richard Drain, and the 1953 effort to debunk the subject.

The discussion then turns to allegations involving President John F. Kennedy, Howard Hunt, Watergate, and the so-called Lancer document. Finally, Caplan and Coulthart tackle the biggest question of all: if nonhuman intelligence is interacting with Earth, what exactly is it—and are we ready to know?

JONATHAN CAPLAN'S BOOK, "NOT FOR DISCLOSURE":

Blackwell's (free hardback shipping for US customers, hardback available June 11): https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Not-for-Disclosure-by-Jonathan-Caplan/9781529979961

Amazon UK (ships hardback to the US, delivery charged, hardback available June 11): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Not-Disclosure-UFOS-Worlds-Secret/dp/152997996X/

Amazon US (audiobook and ebook available June 11, hardback available August 18): https://www.amazon.com/Not-Disclosure-Jonathan-Caplan/dp/152997996X/

CREDITS

Host: Ross Coulthart

Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

Segment Producer: Christine Jenkinson

Associate Producer: Will Tomasi

Research Producer: Rob Jones

Editor: Anthony Diasio

CHAPTERS

:00 Intro

2:06 What Pulled a Fraud Barrister Into the UFO Question

3:44 What Britain's Establishment Knows, and the UK Case Worth Your Attention

5:50 British Special Forces, Crash Retrieval, and the Goodwood Aerodrome Video

7:28 Prince Philip's Quiet Interest, and a Long Line of UFO-Curious Nobility

9:45 The Mr. Janus Story, an Air Marshal's Strangest Encounter

12:28 A Senior RAF Officer's Portal Story, and Forrestal's Meeting With Tizard

16:20 The MJ12 Documents, and Why Caplan Thinks They're Real

21:13 Were the Documents Forged by James Jesus Angleton?

23:28 Corroborating the Papers, a Fraud Investigator's Standard of Proof

28:35 Tim Cooper's Originals and the New Documents Ryan Wood Recovered

33:43 The Blair House Document, and Politicians as "Temporary Employees"

36:00 A Craft Forced Down at White Sands, and the Mantell Case

37:42 The Richard Drain Letter, and the 1953 Decision to Debunk

41:19 Why These Papers Are Hard to Fake, and How They Surfaced

46:55 The Holloman "Advanced Contact" Meeting With a Nordic Being

49:19 JFK, UFOs, and Howard Hunt's Lawyer Douglas Caddy

54:18 Was Watergate Really About Hiding UFO Secrets?

58:11 The US and Russia's Agreement to Deconflict Over UAP

59:28 The Lancer Document, Pulled From a Burning Fireplace

1:03:28 Do the Documents Tie JFK's Death to UFOs?

1:05:14 Frank Sturgis, the Grassy Knoll, and a Confession Never Chased Down

1:07:51 Marilyn Monroe, Dorothy Kilgallen, and a Leaked Wiretap

1:11:19 A Cancer at the Heart of the Mystery, and the CIA's Air Warfare Branch

1:13:46 Chris Sharp's UK Office of Global Access, Does Caplan Buy It?

1:17:58 An Astronaut Sent to Russia for a Retrieval, and What Clinton Knew

1:17:59 Uri Geller, Haim Eshed, and the Contacts Caplan Is Still Chasing

1:21:41 Is a Non-Human Intelligence Here, and Keel's Cryptoterrestrials

1:26:00 Why Disclosure Won't Come From Trump

1:27:09 The Condign Report, Sentient Plasmoids, and Whether We're Ready

In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with John Seer, a UK-based former Royal Navy sailor and author who says decades of intuitive "downloads" from nonhuman intelligence began with a UAP encounter at sea when he was just 16 years old. Seer traces the story back to a childhood near-death experience at age 12, when a golf club to the head sent him to a place he describes as pure white and filled with love, an experience he believes opened the channel everything else would later flow through.

He recounts the sighting witnessed from the bridge of his warship, the jets scrambled in response and the captain's announcement over the intercom that what the crew had just seen, they had not. He then describes the lowest moment of his life, a train ride during which a monk-like figure appeared, turned around, and held a conversation with him that seemed to move outside of time, the encounter that set the downloads in motion.

From there, the conversation widens into the philosophy of death, the idea of bodies as containers for souls, urgent warnings about artificial superintelligence and the year 2027, and the hypothesis, drawing on Dr. Michael Masters' work, that the "Greys" are not visitors from another world but a future iteration of humanity returning to its own past. John answers the skeptics directly, explains why he believes full disclosure will never come, and shares the downloads he says the public needs to hear before time runs out.

#JohnSeer #nonhumanintelligence #neardeathexperience

CREDITS:

Host: Ross Coulthart

Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

Segment Producer: Christine Jenkinson

Associate Producer: Will Tomasi

Research Producer: Rob Jones

Editor: Maria Morales-Salazar

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 RealityCheck@NewsNationNow.com

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/

CHAPTERS

:00 Intro

4:50 "Are You a Madman?" Meeting John Seer

5:35 A Golf Club to the Head, John's Childhood NDE

7:38 "A Place of White, Love Everywhere"

9:31 Do NDEs Open the Door to Downloads?

12:05 The Royal Navy Years and an Encounter at Sea

19:31 On the Bridge Before the Jets Arrived

24:20 "This Is Your Captain Speaking. What You Have Just Seen, You Have Not."

25:48 Enemy Craft or Something Else, What John Saw

28:32 The Train Ride at John's Lowest Point

32:24 When the Downloads Began

33:50 The Monk Turns Around

39:44 How Long Did It Last, and Where Did They Go?

43:18 "Why Were You Sad?"

45:36 Containers for Souls, an Illusion, Not a Simulation

50:32 Warnings About Artificial Superintelligence

54:01 What John Has Been Told About 2027

55:58 What Exactly Is a Download?

58:54 Their Most Important Message to Humanity

1:03:25 Answering the Skeptics

1:05:45 Are the Greys Us From the Future? Dr. Michael Masters' Hypothesis

1:08:46 Other Downloadees and a War He Foresees

1:12:50 Here for a Reason?

1:14:51 Why John Wrote the Book

1:16:20 The Downloads the Public Needs to Hear

1:18:42 Final Thoughts