Energy Department custody claim (2022)
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Contents 6
| Date | 13 January 2022 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Beings & bodies (topic) |
| People | Ross Coulthart, Eric W. Davis, Tim McMillan |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 204 |
| Year | 2022 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2022 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 6 |
In January 2022 Australian journalist Ross Coulthart said in an interview that his sources told him the U.S. Department of Energy held much of the non-human technology the government was alleged to possess, and that material had passed between government departments and private aerospace companies.[1][2]
Coulthart
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Coulthart is an investigative journalist who worked for Australian television programmes such as Sunday and 60 Minutes before turning to UFOs. His 2021 book In Plain Sight: An Investigation into UFOs and Impossible Science drew on interviews with intelligence and defence sources, and he later worked for the U.S. network NewsNation, where in 2023 he interviewed whistleblower David Grusch.[2]
The claim
In the January 2022 interview, Coulthart discussed claims about Energy Department custody of recovered material alongside other topics, including former CIA analyst John Ramirez. The testimony links the claim to physicist Eric Davis's statements that Energy Department laboratories had analysed material for others, and to reports that the Atomic Energy Commission handled UFO-related material in the late 1940s.[1][3]
Assessment
The claim rests on anonymous sources and has not been verified. The Energy Department has not commented on UAP material, and the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office reported in March 2024 that it found no verifiable evidence that the government or companies had access to extraterrestrial technology.[2][4]
People and topics
- Ross Coulthart — Australian journalist who reported David Grusch's claims.
- Non-human intelligence — A term for intelligent beings of non-human origin, used in UAP legislation.
- Department of Energy — The U.S. department that runs the nuclear weapons laboratories.
- Eric W. Davis — Physicist who worked on AAWSAP and has said the U.S. holds recovered craft.
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
- Tim McMillan — Journalist and co-founder of The Debrief.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
On the Timeline
- Coulthart's sources go quiet (2021) (17 December 2021) — Coulthart says his sources have gone quiet amid an intense security effort.
- John Ramirez finds no CIA program (2022) (30 January 2022) — A former CIA analyst says he never found an official UAP program.
See every 2022 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- "Ross Coulthart: DoE holds most ET tech?", Generation Zed (YouTube, Jan 2022) · youtu.be · archived copy
- Ross Coulthart — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- David Grusch UFO whistleblower claims — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- "Pentagon UFO office finds 'no empirical evidence' for alien technology in new report", Space.com (Mar 2024) · space.com · archived copy
- In Plain Sight (Ross Coulthart, 2021) — Goodreads · goodreads.com · archived copy
- youtu.be · youtu.be · archived copy
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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