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Ross Coulthart

👤 Person📝 Journalist🇦🇺 AUSince 2021🔗 Visit Website

Methodology

8/10

Transparency

9/10

Institutional

5/10

Peer Review

7/10

Track Record

7/10

Fact vs. Spec.

8/10

Self-Correction

7/10

The CRED-7 framework evaluates sources across seven criteria: Methodology (20%), Transparency (20%), Institutional Affiliation (15%), Peer Review (15%), Track Record (10%), Fact/Speculation (10%), and Self-Correction (10%).

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Description

Overview
Australian investigative journalist with over 30 years of experience at 60 Minutes Australia, ABC Four Corners, and The Age. Author of 'In Plain Sight: An Investigation into UFOs and Impossible Science' (2021). Co-host of the podcast 'Need to Know' with Bryce Zabel.

UAP Engagement
Intensive congressional source work since 2021. Interviews with David Grusch (exclusive before the NewsNation debut 2023). Regular reporting on NewsNation about UAP developments in the Pentagon and Congress. Focus on crash retrieval and reverse engineering narratives.

Strengths and Weaknesses
Excellent journalistic craftsmanship (Walkley Award, gold standard of Australian journalism). Access to high-ranking US sources despite Australian origin. However: tendency toward narrative dramatization. Some of his claims (incl. 'biggest story in human history') exceed journalistic neutrality. Strongly emotionally involved.

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Ross Coulthart is an Australian investigative journalist currently working for NewsNation, specialising in UAP reporting for an international audience. He has conducted several landmark whistleblower interviews — including with David Grusch and Jake Barber — and published the book In Plain Sight in 2021, which comprehensively documents the global UAP phenomenon and has become a reference work in the international debate.

Australian investigative journalist
Works at NewsNation with a focus on UAP investigations
Specialises in UAP reporting for international audiences
Landmark interviews with UAP whistleblowers David Grusch and Jake Barber
Author of In Plain Sight (2021), examining the global UAP phenomenon
Combination of long-form interview reporting and a comprehensive book as main formats

Coulthart is the extra-American counterpart to Leslie Kean in the U.S. press: he anchors UAP reporting in the English-speaking world beyond the United States and delivers the kind of long-form investigations in which whistleblowers like Grusch and Barber prefer to embed their high-risk statements. Without his interview series several central cases of the most recent disclosure wave would hardly have left the U.S. East Coast in journalistic terms.