Summary
- A prominent journalist and UFO disclosure advocate is now publicly contesting that position, claiming Musk has been briefed into a classified government program involving unidentified aerial phenomena.
- Ross Coulthart, an Australian investigative journalist who has reported extensively on UFO disclosure and government transparency around the issue, said he believes Musk has been read into the program.
- His longstanding public position remains that he has seen no credible evidence of extraterrestrial life, and that neither he nor SpaceX has been briefed on any such program by the US government.
Elon Musk has consistently maintained on record that neither he nor anyone at SpaceX has been given evidence of extraterrestrial life. A prominent journalist and UFO disclosure advocate is now publicly contesting that position, claiming Musk has been briefed into a classified government program involving unidentified aerial phenomena.
Ross Coulthart, an Australian investigative journalist who has reported extensively on UFO disclosure and government transparency around the issue, said he believes Musk has been read into the program. He was referring to allegations made by Pentagon whistleblower David Grusch, who testified that the US government is running a covert program to recover and reverse-engineer technology from unidentified aerial phenomena, and that American authorities are aware of what he described as non-human intelligence.
Coulthart went further, suggesting that employees at SpaceX may hold the kind of security clearances that could give them access to parts of this program. “People in SpaceX do have top-secret SCIF clearance,” he said, “and I think they’ve been read into various parts of the programme, maybe not the whole thing.”
He also offered a speculative interpretation of a strategic shift in Musk’s space ambitions. Musk has in recent years moved away from his much-publicised focus on reaching Mars, pivoting instead toward lunar exploration. Coulthart suggested this change of direction may not be coincidental. “I would not be surprised at all if that’s why Musk changed strategy from Mars to the moon,” he said.
Musk himself has not responded to Coulthart’s claims. His longstanding public position remains that he has seen no credible evidence of extraterrestrial life, and that neither he nor SpaceX has been briefed on any such program by the US government.
It is worth being clear that Coulthart’s claims are unverified allegations from a journalist who advocates for government disclosure on UFO related matters. Grusch’s congressional testimony, while dramatic, has not been independently corroborated by verifiable documentary evidence. The existence of the program Grusch described has not been officially confirmed by any US government body. This remains a contested and speculative area, and the claims should be understood as such.
