Ross Coulthart Says He Has a Bombshell UFO Photo From Antarctica, But Serious Questions Remain

Ross Coulthart says he has been given an extraordinary photograph of a metallic spherical craft hovering over a sled in Antarctica, taken by an Australian who served for years with Australia's Antarctic Survey. I have real questions about that claim, along with two other things Coulthart has said recently about Antarctica: that he's aware of at least two secret US bases there, and that a viewer question tied to a recent John Kerry interview about "new energy" might be pointing at zero point energy.

John Kerry's "new energy" remarks get read as a zero point energy hint

A question sent to Coulthart's NewsNation show claimed John Kerry gave a BBC News interview last month talking about "new energy" that "nobody can stop," and speculated Kerry might be hinting at zero point energy, the long standing but unconfirmed idea of pulling unlimited energy out of the quantum vacuum. Coulthart's on air response was: "I suspect John Kerry was talking there about fusion, which is apparently just around the corner, fusion energy. But all we can do is speculate." He added that if zero point energy is real, "we wouldn't have to go to fight wars in the Middle East anymore because oil wouldn't matter."

I went looking for the actual interview myself and it was hard to track down. The only John Kerry BBC interview I could find on YouTube was about the Middle East and the war, nothing to do with energy at all. What I did find was a BBC News radio interview recorded in mid June while Kerry was attending the Our Ocean Conference in Mombasa, Kenya, in which he said "the marketplace has decided the energy transition is taking place and will take place" and pointed to geothermal, better batteries, and cheaper solar as the technologies driving that shift.

I listened to the whole interview and it's about climate change and renewable energy, full stop. I don't in any way think he's talking about zero point energy at all, I didn't get that feeling listening to the entire thing. Go listen to it yourself and see what you think, but based on what's actually said, that connection just isn't there.

Antarctica's Nazi base and Anunnaki theories tied to Kerry's 2016 trip

Kerry was the subject of conspiracy theories about hidden UAP and Nazi bases during an actual trip he made to Antarctica back in 2016. One video I found argues that WikiLeaks released an image of Kerry heading toward Hutcheson's Hut, and claims the surrounding area is "completely covered in artifacts from the Anunnaki," now being exposed as the ice melts, including machinery, vehicles and megalithic structures Kerry was supposedly there to find. It's a wild theory and I'll let you judge it yourself, and apparently there's no shortage of other UFO related Kerry stories out there, including a claim that he met with aliens back in 2004.

The Nazi base version of the story goes back further, and Joe Scott, who I think is a great YouTuber, covered it a couple of years ago. That version holds that Nazis built a secret base in Antarctica, took Hitler there at the end of World War II, and used UFOs launched from it to shoot down American and British planes, before the US supposedly destroyed the base with nuclear weapons in the 1950s, with governments covering it up ever since. From there the theory shifts to aliens, the idea being that if aliens are on Earth, the most desolate and isolated place on the planet is exactly where they would base themselves.

What actually happened is more mundane. Nazis did land and camp in Antarctica, but for a whaling station so Germany would not depend on Norway for whale oil. They landed in an area Norway had already claimed, called Dronning Maud Land, planted flags, and named it Neu Schwabenland, before abandoning it in 1945 once the Nazis were out of power. Thousands of scientists have visited that same area since the 1950s, it has been mapped by satellite and aircraft, and nothing is there. Most of the supposed crashed UFO sightings in Antarctica turn out to be rocks, mountain peaks or tipped over icebergs, in a landscape that looks strange because, as Joe Scott put it, "things don't look normal because they're not normal."

Coulthart claims two secret US bases in Antarctica, one supposedly found through a fitness app

Coulthart said: "I've had conversations with people in Washington in the last few weeks which suggested to me that Antarctica is a very interesting place to be looking. One thing I'm aware of is that there's at least two American secret bases in Antarctica that I've been apprised of." He said one of those bases was "inadvertently revealed by a running app," describing a story about a student from the Australian National University who noticed the app he used to track runs in Canberra showed another user running in the middle of Antarctica, at a location that wasn't any known base, which turned out to be a secret US base.

My first reaction is that these bases don't seem very secret if Coulthart knows about them. If it's true and real, I don't understand why you'd reveal it, and I don't see how that helps America. I also don't know who is telling him this. There is no public record of a secret Antarctic base being uncovered through a fitness tracker, and this misconception likely stems from a real 2018 security breach elsewhere: Strava published a global heat map of user workouts that inadvertently exposed the outlines and patrol routes of US and allied military sites in conflict zones like Syria and Afghanistan, not Antarctica. Later that same year, an investigation into the Polar fitness app similarly exposed the identities and home addresses of intelligence and military personnel stationed around the world, prompting the Department of Defense to tighten security policies and both companies to adjust their data sharing.

So I'm left asking the same questions about the second base too: what is it, where is it, and who told Ross? It doesn't check out for me that the most secretive information humanity holds goes straight to Coulthart from secret sources, and he then talks about it freely on NewsNation with ads in between. There's no verification of the information and never any evidence attached to it. Antarctica is weird, I'll agree with that much, but whether these two bases exist, how Coulthart would know about them if they're secret, and whether any of it has anything to do with aliens are all questions I can't answer.

The bombshell photo: a metallic sphere over a sled, still unreleased

Coulthart said he's been in touch with an Australian who served for many years with Australia's Antarctic Survey, and that this man has "given me the most extraordinary image, which I'll be bringing you shortly, of a craft, a metallic spherical object that he photographed with a slide film camera hovering over his sled in the middle of nowhere in Antarctica." He described it as "clear as day," and said he is working with the man to get corroboration from members of a foreign country team who were with him at the time, so the sighting can be jointly corroborated.

Coulthart tied this back to Kerry and further back to "Admiral Byrd's very interesting expedition," saying Antarctica is an area that deserves close attention. Do I want to see the photograph? Yes, absolutely, and I'd like to hear the man's testimony too, along with reactions from whoever else was with him on the ice at the time, since he would otherwise be the only one who saw it. But Coulthart only said the image is coming "shortly," and I have no idea what that actually means. Could it be tomorrow, this week, a month from now, two, three, four months? I don't have any more information than what Coulthart has already revealed.

What do you think is actually going on in Antarctica?