Ross Coulthart's 'Catastrophic Disclosure' Warning Is Going Viral, but Counting on a UFO Leak Is a Pipe Dream

Ross Coulthart has warned that what he calls "catastrophic disclosure" may be coming: a moment when someone puts a huge trove of UAP files onto a hard drive and simply walks out of the building with it. The clip of that warning is going viral, but I think waiting on a lone whistleblower to deliver that kind of revelation is a pipe dream, and the fuller context of his comments shows why.

The viral section is only part of a roughly five minute answer, so I want to go through it from the beginning. There is a lot more around what he said than the short clip suggests.

Coulthart calls the presidential UAP records release a 'dog and pony show'

The comments came in response to a question about whether whistleblowers might come forward with inside information on why these particular files are being released rather than better ones. The person asking put it bluntly: the files released by this administration are barely throwing the public a bone.

Coulthart agreed. He described the presidential UAP records release as "essentially a dog and pony show. I think we're being played." In his view, the real story is happening behind the scenes, in what he describes as UAP summoning and shootdown operations at White Sands Missile Range involving ODNI, the Department of Defense and the FBI, which he says are still ongoing. He also pointed to what he says is an active FBI investigation into allegations of breaches of oversight laws, the congressional laws that entitle Congress to access all UAP related information.

He was careful to say he did not want to sound ungrateful that documents are being released at all. But he questioned why some of this material was held back for so long.

Why was the Ruppelt recording withheld for decades?

Coulthart's main example was a 1952 audio recording of Edward Ruppelt, the captain in charge of Project Blue Book, which he says was being held by MITRE Corporation. He asked why on earth it could not have been released years ago.

His biggest takeaway is that the Defense Department and other agencies are sitting on historical records that should have come out years ago. He argued that the Air Force, and the CIA in particular, did not want them released because they would only build public interest in the phenomenon, which he says is now happening anyway because of the Defense Department's own stupidity. If they had been more open, he suggested, the public would know a lot more and would probably be less enthused about it. He added that he thinks the public is ready.

On the releases themselves, Coulthart makes some good points that I actually agree with. I took a lot of criticism early on for not supporting the tranches, and I have been right. They have just been so bad, and I think a lot of people have caught on.

Coulthart's warning: someone could walk out with a hard drive

Coulthart said he does not necessarily agree that whistleblowers will come forward to talk about how poor these records are. Instead, he said: "What I think we might see is what I've been warning about for months. Catastrophic disclosure." He described a disclosure day style revelation where "somebody throws a huge number of files, some of which may compromise national security, onto a hard drive and walks out the building with it."

He called the stupidity, arrogance and hubris of people in the defense department and intelligence community who think they can suppress this secret for another 80 years "just breathtaking." That attitude, he argued, creates the climate for what he called a Daniel Ellsberg situation.

Coulthart walked through the Ellsberg story at length. Ellsberg was a researcher inside the RAND Corporation who did research for McNamara and was involved in compiling the Pentagon Papers, documents Coulthart says showed young men and women were being sent to their deaths in Vietnam in a war that should never have happened. Ellsberg photocopied a vast number of documents and gave them to the New York Times and the Washington Post. In Coulthart's telling, the papers were published with no harm to national security, only harm to the embarrassed egos of certain people in the Department of Defense, and they revealed that the war was being driven by people who knew it could not be won.

Frustrated insiders, and a plea to the President

Coulthart, who said he knows people in Australia who served in Vietnam and knows names on the Vietnam wall in Washington, argued that this kind of story involves patriots who care about their country. Sooner or later, he said, somebody will walk out with a hard disk in their briefcase and leak the secrets of UAP legacy retrieval and reverse engineering programs. He said he knows this because he has talked to some of them, and they are very frustrated with the obfuscation, lying and deceit of the national security state and the apparent unwillingness of the White House to confront the issue.

He then offered the White House some benefit of the doubt, saying he believes it is taking the issue seriously and is wrestling with what to do about it. He closed with: "Mr. President, this is your moment."

I don't know if the President sees it that way. That line is very easy to say, but where is the proof? It cannot be his moment without the proof. Clearly President Trump has not been moved by any proof, or by anyone around him, to take up this moment. First establish the proof, then take up the moment, and I think that is what people are forgetting. There have been a lot of pleas to President Trump, and I just don't think he is hearing any of it. We have the war, and the midterms are coming up. To me this is the worst time to do it. It should have been done before.

The pros and cons of catastrophic disclosure

So much of this seems to be going nowhere. There is the issue of waiving the NDAs, which the whistleblowers don't want to do. Hearings are coming up. The tranches are horrible. It is not looking good. Against that backdrop, Coulthart is saying he sees it as more likely that a whistleblower might do something like this.

That is what a lot of people have wanted for a long time. But could it put people at risk or harm national security? Clearly we don't want that. So how do we get both? How do we get someone to tell us about the aliens and UFOs without affecting national security? I don't know. It is easier said than done, and I'm trying to be nuanced about this. Yes, I would love for someone frustrated with the administration to come out and reveal this stuff. But as much as we want it, we need to consider the cons. Could Americans, including Americans overseas, be endangered? I don't know what the information could reveal or what ripple effect it could have. Is that worth it to get humanity the truth?

You know what could solve all of this, the administration, the frustrations, the whistleblowers, everything? The aliens could disclose themselves. Then we wouldn't have to worry about any of this. I do wonder why they would secretly decide to only communicate with a few humans.

The biggest UFO claims have already been made

At this point I just want any kind of disclosure, alien disclosure, catastrophic disclosure, something, because the bubble is growing and it is going to burst at some point. The biggest claims that could be made have been made. Craft, bodies, reverse engineering, agreements: the whole lot has been claimed, and by people deemed the most credible, David Grusch and his crew among them.

There is really nowhere else to go. People are saying they know where it is and what is going on and that they have seen the evidence, but somehow it is not getting out to the public. This is the top floor. There are no more floors to go to.

Why waiting on a whistleblower is a pipe dream

Citizen disclosure is what we should be supporting more than anything. Waiting on some random whistleblower to come forward and provide catastrophic disclosure "is a pipe dream." It sounds good as a sound bite for Coulthart to say on his show and make a plea to the President, and it ends up being something I cover, so "it gets attention, but it's not effective."

We have not had catastrophic disclosure up until now. It has been described as an 80 year cover up, and no one has come out yet. Do we really think they will all of a sudden come out now? Maybe one day it has to happen, but I see nothing on the verge.

If anything, this would be the worst time to come out, because whistleblowers are being treated so badly. Before they came forward, that story was not out there, so that would have been a better time. Now a lot of what whistleblowers talk about in podcasts and interviews is how hard it is to come out and the problems they went through. I can't quantify it, but they talk about it a lot. So why would anyone hear that and think it is a great time to come forward? We will have to wait and see.

Do you think a catastrophic disclosure leak would be worth the national security risk, or is citizen disclosure the better path?