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Reality Check with Ross Coulthart

Reality Check with Ross Coulthart

By: Ross Coulthart
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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 (UAPs) to other mysteries often missing from the headlines.

Ross Coulthart
Politics & Government
Episodes
  • The Lakenheath drone incursions | Reality Check
    Oct 21 2026

    In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with Mike Morgan, a former senior investigating officer with 30 years in British policing and the author of "The Silence is Deafening," and Liberty, a plane spotter who lives near Royal Air Force Lakenheath. The conversation centers on the objects reported over Lakenheath, Mildenhall, Feltwell and Fairford in November 2024, which officials called drones without naming an operator or releasing a single photograph.


    Morgan explains what his Freedom of Information requests turned up, from a police helicopter's near-miss report to an investigation staffed by part-time officers who, by his account, made no inquiries of local drone operators. Coulthart presses both men on the case for Russian or Chinese involvement and on why bases associated with nuclear weapons might draw that kind of attention. Liberty describes the silent craft that crossed his field the day before the incursions began and the radio call he says he heard from one of the pilots sent up to chase them.


    Mike Morgan's book, "The Silence is Deafening": https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G3WSXH6D


    Footage courtesy of Liberty, Military Aviation Channel.


    Senator Mark Warner audio courtesy of Matt Laslo, Ask a Pol UAPs: https://www.askapoluaps.com/p/chinese-drones-shuttered-air-force-base-on-us-soil


    Images of General Glen VanHerck courtesy of the United States Department of Defense.


    SOCIAL TAGS:

    Ross Coulthart

    X: @rosscoulthart https://x.com/rosscoulthart

    Instagram: @rosscoulthart https://www.instagram.com/rosscoulthart/


    Mike Morgan

    Website: msmorganbooks.co.uk https://www.msmorganbooks.co.uk/


    Liberty

    YouTube: @MilitaryAviationChannel https://www.youtube.com/@MilitaryAviationChannel

    TikTok: @militaryaviationchannel https://www.tiktok.com/@militaryaviationchannel


    #UFO #RAFLakenheath #UAP


    CREDITS:

    Host: Ross Coulthart

    Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

    Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

    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 RealityCheck@NewsNationNow.com


    NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.

    More from NewsNation: https://www.newsnationnow.com/

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    CHAPTERS:

    0:00 Intro

    1:30 Senator Warner on Langley

    4:48 The British Base Incursions

    10:42 Drones as the Official Answer

    12:53 A Sighting the Day Before

    17:37 The Police Helicopter Encounter

    24:44 The Air Force Statement

    28:38 What Liberty Heard on the Radio

    31:04 Reports of a Drone Brought Down

    32:37 The Russian Sabotage Theory

    35:00 Nuclear Weapons at the Bases

    39:06 Why Officials Say Drones

    44:23 The Five Observables

    50:34 Freedom of Information Refusals

    55:53 Inside the Police Investigation

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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Ross Coulthart: The White House is going around the legacy program | Reality Check
    Oct 18 2026

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    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 Avi Loeb’s plan to deploy scientific sensors at orb hotspots, starting with White Sands, and why he believes the White House is working around the legacy program’s cover-up. He explains why older UAP accounts describe gears and shafts while modern ones don’t and why Europe’s UAP hotspots include Greece. Plus, he gives his take on Jake Barber’s new mothership video and the Cold War-era nuclear explosions that may have brought down a UAP.


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


    #UAP #UFO #AviLoeb


    CREDITS:

    Host: Ross Coulthart

    Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

    Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

    Segment Producer: Will Tomasi, Christine Jenkinson

    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 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/


    CHAPTER SUMMARY:

    0:00 Intro

    0:45 Ross’ reacts to Jay Stratton’s book release

    4:45 Ross responds to NASA

    7:55 Will the government ever admit there was a cover-up?

    11:33 Did David Grusch work for the CIA?

    13:00 Is there NHI tech that resembles human tech?

    19:43 Europe’s UAP hotspots

    24:15 Is there legal risk for corporations holding onto NHI technology?

    35:18 Beyond institute UAP video

    39:32 Could a nuclear event harm NHI?

    42:33 Final thoughts

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    43 mins
  • 'Archive X' and the impossible | Reality Check
    Oct 13 2026

    In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with Jeffrey J. Kripal, the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University and host of the new six-part series "Archive X: Unexplained Phenomena." Kripal oversees Rice's Center for the Impossible, formerly the Archives of the Impossible, a collection that holds the papers of John Mack and Jacques Vallée among more than a million items on telepathy, near-death experience, abduction and precognition.


    The conversation opens with the nonverbal autistic children of the series' first episode and the place they call the hill. Then, moves to the abduction account of Karin Austin, the artist Andrew Paquette's dreams of disasters that later happened and Kripal's argument that the brain is a receiver of consciousness rather than its producer. Coulthart puts the harder questions to Kripal, including why a nonhuman intelligence would block a witness's memory, whether a future human civilization is behind the encounters and what to make of Christian arguments that the phenomenon is demonic. Kripal's answer runs through all of it, that these experiences cluster around trauma and love, that they have happened for millennia and that the task is to listen before reducing them to any worldview.


    SOCIAL TAGS:

    Ross Coulthart

    X: @rosscoulthart https://x.com/rosscoulthart

    Instagram: @rosscoulthart https://www.instagram.com/rosscoulthart/

    Jeffrey Kripal

    Substack: @jeffkripal https://jeffkripal.substack.com/

    Website: https://jeffreyjkripal.com/


    #telepathy #abduction #nonhumanintelligence


    CREDITS

    Host: Ross Coulthart

    Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

    Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

    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 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

    0:00 Intro

    3:07 Has the Phenomenon Increased?

    4:59 Non-Local Consciousness

    6:16 The Telepathic Autistic Children

    12:15 The Hill

    18:23 Becoming Superhuman

    19:58 Karin Austin's Abduction Account

    28:38 The Future Human Hypothesis

    31:50 Andrew Paquette and Precognition

    39:28 Trauma and the Thinned Veil

    44:47 Unreliable Space-Time Sensors

    49:20 Ross's Esalen Experience

    51:26 The Demonic Interpretation

    52:38 The John Mack Archives

    56:22 Gnosticism and the Nag Hammadi Texts

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    1 hr and 2 mins
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