Trump Reportedly Briefed On UFO Crash Program
- Cristina Gomez
- May 19
- 3 min read
The President of the United States has reportedly been read into the program that has been kept from sitting presidents for decades. According to investigative journalist Ross Coulthart, the President is now briefed on the legacy UAP crash retrieval program. Coulthart credited four lawmakers for forcing the issue. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, Congressman Eric Burlison, and Congressman Tim Burchett. In Coulthart’s framing, the open question is what the President plans to tell the American people now that he is fully read in.
The report arrived in the same window the President posted what appears to be an artificial intelligence generated image of himself walking next to a gray figure at what looks like a military base, posted directly to Truth Social.
For months, whistleblower David Grusch has publicly stated the President may have been briefed during his first term, an idea he raised earlier this year. On May 16th, Dr. Eric Davis, the physicist who served as science advisor to the original UAP Task Force, posted that Grusch likely misspoke. According to Davis, what the President received during his first term was the standard UAP Task Force briefing under Jay Stratton’s team, and that briefing did not include the legacy crash retrieval program. Davis has argued elsewhere that the legacy program was hidden through financial fraud and concealment from the executive branch itself, which is why he has questioned whether any sitting President could have been fully briefed until very recently.
Congressman Eric Burlison is opening a separate front. Burlison sent a formal letter to MIT Lincoln Laboratory in Massachusetts requesting a classified 1952 briefing video referenced internally as a flying saucer talk. Burlison posted on X that the lab’s attorneys responded quickly and committed to comply within thirty days. His investigation is now following the trail into RAND, MITRE, Aerospace Corporation, MIT Lincoln Labs, and Northrop Grumman.
The week also saw a shift from Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, chairwoman of the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets. According to reporting from Matt Laslo of Ask a Pol, Luna told reporters after a closed door classified UAP briefing at FBI headquarters that the briefing was a ten out of ten, and that it makes her reconsider AARO, the Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office. The shift is interesting given that Luna had previously called for AARO to be defunded and disbanded, then more recently posed for a photo with AARO director Jon Kosloski and publicly endorsed the office. (Read more here).
The most recent on the record statements from former Pentagon AATIP director Lue Elizondo, drawn from his appearance on Keeping It Real with Jillian Michaels, frame the personal stakes for the people who pushed this disclosure window open. Elizondo confirmed that he and David Grusch, while working together at US Space Force after Elizondo left the Pentagon, were both directly threatened to stay silent or have their mouths shut for them. Elizondo also described, on the record, an incident involving a senior CIA officer he says is a personal friend and the officer’s wife, a CIA psychologist. According to Elizondo, the couple woke up in a state of panic in their Virginia home and then woke up again outside on their back lawn. Agency doctors reportedly found a puncture wound on the back of the officer’s neck, and his wife later sneezed out a small piece of foreign material that Elizondo described as a technological metal chip.
Sources
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Coulthart, R. [@rosscoulthart]. (2026, May 18). I am told @POTUS is indeed now briefed on the legacy UAP crash retrieval program… [Post]. X. https://x.com/rosscoulthart/status/2056221299500843056
Jillian Michaels. (2026, May 17). What Trump’s files are about to expose about UAPs & nonhuman observers — Luis Elizondo warns us [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SyeUHMxZaM
Laslo, M. (2025, May 17). “Makes us reconsider AARO,” Secrets Chair Luna says after FBI UAP briefing. Ask a Pol UAPs. https://www.askapoluaps.com/p/fbi-makes-us-reconsider-aaro
Trump, D. J. [@realDonaldTrump]. (2026, May [approximate date]). [Image post depicting President Trump with a grey alien] [Post]. Truth Social.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116591901587847680
Walsh, M. (2026, May 18). Coulthart says Trump knows the UFO truth, but Reddit isn’t so sure. Cybernews. https://cybernews.com/news/trump-coulthart-ufo-uap-disclosure/
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