Coulthart on Huntsville physicists and BAE
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| Speaker | Ross Coulthart, Australian investigative journalist |
|---|---|
| Year | 2023 (podcast) |
| Claims | People in high-level physics in Huntsville, Alabama, had "disappeared"; BAE Systems deserved scrutiny over possible UAP work |
| Names given | None |
| Related case | Amy Eskridge, Huntsville antigravity researcher, died 11 June 2022 |
| Later | In 2026 the White House said it was reviewing deaths and disappearances of scientists, including Eskridge |
| Status | Unverified |
| Date | 28 February 2023 |
| People | Ross Coulthart, Amy Eskridge |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 214 |
| Timeline | 2023 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 7 |
In a 2023 podcast, the Australian journalist Ross Coulthart said that people involved in high-level physics in Huntsville, Alabama, had disappeared. He also suggested that the British defense company BAE Systems deserved scrutiny over its possible involvement in UAP-related work.[1] He did not name the people he said had disappeared, and he offered no evidence.[1] Huntsville is a center of U.S. rocket, space and defense work. It is also where the antigravity researcher Amy Eskridge died in 2022, a death ruled a suicide that later drew wide speculation.[2][3][4] BAE's predecessor did fund a documented gravity-research effort, Project Greenglow, but no evidence connects the company to UAP programs.[7]
The claims
According to the testimony this article draws on, Coulthart made two points on the podcast:[1]
- Huntsville. Some people working in advanced physics in Huntsville had "disappeared". The phrase could mean vanished from public work or gone missing; the available material does not say which.
- BAE Systems. The company deserved a closer look over whether it had a role in UAP-related research.
Coulthart has also reported claims that the U.S. government secretly holds recovered craft. He interviewed the whistleblower David Grusch for NewsNation in June 2023, and critics have faulted his UFO reporting for its lack of evidence.[1]
Huntsville
Huntsville is Alabama's most populous city.[4] Its growth after the Second World War came from Redstone Arsenal, an Army base next to the city:[4][5]
- Rockets. After the war, German rocket scientists brought over under Operation Paperclip developed ballistic missiles at the arsenal, starting from the V-2. The team later moved to the new NASA, and the arsenal was the main site for space launch vehicle design into the 1960s.
- Tenants. Today it hosts more than 75 agencies, including NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, the U.S. Space Command, the Missile Defense Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency's Missile and Space Intelligence Center, and the FBI.
- Workforce. About 36,000 to 40,000 government and contractor staff work there each day.
The city's concentration of classified aerospace and defense work makes it a natural setting for claims about secret research.[5]
Amy Eskridge
Amy Eskridge co-founded the Institute for Exotic Science in Huntsville and served as its chairwoman and president. Her father, Richard Eskridge, is a retired NASA engineer.[2][3] She described her work as experimental propulsion, including what she called "antigravity" research.[2] In a 2020 interview with the YouTuber Jeremy Rys she spoke of harassment, sabotage and threats after what she called the discovery of antigravity. She said "I have to publish because it's only going to get worse until I publish".[2] She also suggested that researchers who reported breakthroughs on unconventional technology tended to "disappear" from public work or stop publishing. This echoes the wording of Coulthart's claim.[2]
Eskridge died in Huntsville on 11 June 2022, aged 34. Her death was reported as a self-inflicted gunshot wound, though neither police nor medical examiners released a public report.[2][3]
The 2026 review
In 2026 Eskridge's case resurfaced online as the eleventh in a list of scientists tied to military, nuclear and aerospace research who had died or disappeared in unusual circumstances.[2][3] The official response included the following:[2]
- President Donald Trump called the situation "pretty serious" and said, "I hope it's random".
- The press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said the White House was working with the FBI to review the cases together.
- Representative Eric Burlison called for an FBI investigation.
- The National Nuclear Security Administration said it was looking into reports involving its own employees.
Fox News reported that there was no public evidence linking Eskridge's death to the other cases, and that claims of foul play were unverified.[2] Newsweek noted that no link between the cases had been established.[3] None of this reporting names any Huntsville physicists who disappeared, as Coulthart had claimed.[2][3]
BAE Systems and Project Greenglow
BAE Systems is a British aerospace, arms and security company based in London. It was formed in 1999 when British Aerospace merged with Marconi Electronic Systems. It is the largest defense contractor in Europe, and its largest operations are in the United Kingdom and the United States.[6]
The researcher Keith Basterfield, surveying reports of aerospace-company UFO research, found one relevant British effort. From the late 1980s to around 2005, British Aerospace ran a small office named Project Greenglow. It was staffed by the engineer Ronald Evans and explored whether gravity could be controlled for aircraft propulsion. It produced no real results.[7] Greenglow is documented, but it was gravity research, not a UAP program. No evidence connects BAE to UAP work.[7]
Assessment
Coulthart's remarks name no one and cite no documents.[1] The deaths and disappearances later reviewed by the White House are real cases, but officials have not shown that they are connected or that any of them involved UAP work.[2][3] The claims remain unverified.
People and topics
- Ross Coulthart — Australian journalist who reported David Grusch's claims.
- BAE Systems — The British defence company that funded Project Greenglow.
- NASA — The U.S. civilian space agency, created in 1958.
- Amy Eskridge — Co-founder of the Institute for Exotic Science in Huntsville.
- Project Greenglow — Project Greenglow
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
On the Timeline
- Alfred O'Donnell's Area 51 saucer story (28 February 2023) — George Knapp says a former Area 51 contractor manager told him of a recovered saucer.
See every 2023 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- Ross Coulthart — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- "Lawmaker asks for FBI involvement as White House probes scientists' deaths, disappearances", Fox News (April 2026) · foxnews.com
- "Obituaries shed light on wave of dead, missing scientists as White House probes", Newsweek (2026) · newsweek.com
- Huntsville, Alabama · en.wikipedia.org
- Redstone Arsenal · en.wikipedia.org
- BAE Systems · en.wikipedia.org
- Keith Basterfield, "Aerospace companies and secret UAP studies" (2019) · ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com
Facts in this article are drawn in part from the Wikipedia articles “Ross Coulthart”, “Huntsville, Alabama”, “Redstone Arsenal”, “BAE Systems”, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
This page was last edited on 29 October 2026. Articles are written in our own words from the sources listed under References; disputed claims are attributed to the people who made them.
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