Ross Coulthart is an Australian investigative journalist known for in-depth coverage of UAP/UFO topics. He has closely followed the careers of key disclosure figures including lue-elizondo and has reported extensively on uap-disclosure developments for newsnation (the Reality Check podcast) and other outlets.
Coulthart publicly shared details of Elizondo’s March 17, 2026 near-fatal motorcycle crash and urged helmet use in public safety messaging (see src-elizondo-motorcycle-crash-2026-04).
On Trump’s disclosure directive (Feb 2026)
In src-newsnation-elizondo-pandoras-box-2026-02 (Feb 21, 2026), Coulthart issued a sharply procedural caution against over-reading donald-trump’s Feb 19 Truth Social announcement: Trump “is not saying… that he is going to declassify anything. All they are talking about is reviewing records.” This review-not-declassification caveat was largely absent from disclosure-community reception of the directive and held up against the eventual May 8 pursue launch, which surfaced existing-FOIA-holdings material rather than newly declassified content.