Reality Check with Ross Coulthart

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.

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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

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
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#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 RealityCheck@NewsNationNow.com

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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

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

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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 RealityCheck@NewsNationNow.com

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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 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 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/

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In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with Estonian filmmaker and author Mart Sander, whose new book, "Object M: Estonia's Buried Mystery," traces one of the strangest and least understood cases in Europe. In 1969, a man drilling a well in the Tallinn suburb of Merivälja struck something solid roughly seven meters down, and the fragments he broke loose eventually reached Soviet laboratories that concluded the alloy could not have been produced on this planet.

Sander walks Coulthart through the two decades of excavation that followed, the shafts sunk under the garden, the KGB files stamped top secret and the researchers who reported burns, blackouts and stranger effects the closer they got to whatever sits beneath the upper layer. He also lays out the counterarguments, from the meteorite explanation to the claim this is a forgotten first World War superalloy buried in a hurry, and explains why the physical evidence points in two directions more than a 100,000 years apart.

What neither man can account for is why, years after the Soviets left Estonia, two strangers turned up at the homeowner's door with a suitcase of cash for a small suburban house that nobody had ever proven held anything at all.

#unexplained #mystery #objectm

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

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
6:00 A Story That Found Him, and a Hundred Thousand Year Contradiction
7:26 An Ancient Wildlife Camera, and We Are the Wildlife
8:22 Shards of an Outer Layer, and No Way to Reach What Lies Below
11:04 A Word From Our Sponsors
13:10 His Favorite Teacher Lived in the House
14:43 What Two Years of Digging Did to the Family Inside
17:12 Viivika, the Caretaker Paid to Keep the Legend Alive
19:30 Seven Meters Down, Into Soviet Laboratories, and Out of Estonia
24:03 A Claim About Two Occupants
25:37 Aleksander Dejev, the Villain of the Book
29:27 Is It Still There, or Is It Moving Through the Soil
30:13 Nuremberg, April 1561, and the Calculation That Led to Tallinn
34:33 What the Vatican Archives Say
36:03 D Generators in the Basement
39:11 A Swedish Psychic and a Russian File
42:03 Photographs of the Dig, and Nothing of the Object
44:06 Igor Volke's Two Objects
45:58 Bottomless Pockets
47:40 A Meteorite, or a 1917 Superalloy Buried in a Hurry
51:05 Books Flying, and a Dog That Would Not Settle
52:41 Vormsi Enn Says Bury It, and by 1988 They Do
54:54 Even the Hardened Skeptics Agree Something Is Down There
55:41 Japanese Television Arrives
58:48 The Public Discrediting of Aleksander Dejev
1:01:42 A Suitcase of Money
1:04:17 Ross Asks Mart
1:06:10 The Book, the Movie, and an Invitation to the Dig
1:07:22 Coming Up on Reality Check