Ross Coulthart is a multi-award-winning investigative journalist and best-selling author who has worked over three decades for The Sydney Morning Herald, ABC TV’s Four Corners, Channel Nine’s Sunday and 60 Minutes programs and Channel Seven’s Sunday Night. Ross has won five Walkley Awards for his journalism and in 2015 his investigation into a rogue doctor earned him Australia’s highest journalism award, The Gold Walkley. He also won a Logie for his investigative journalism.
Ross is currently working as special correspondent for US TV network News Nation based in Chicago.
You can watch Ross’ Reality Check News Nation show, which regularly investigates the UAP issue, here:
You can watch Ross’ Need To Know podcast with Bryce Zabel here:
In 2021 Ross published his best-selling multi-year investigation into the UAP mystery, In Plain Sight. He has also broadcast multiple UAP-related documentaries for Ch7 News Australia:
The UK UFO investigations (Rendlesham/Cosford)
Need To Know documentary with Bryce Zabel
Interview with Professor Michio Kaku
Interview with Professor Garry Nolan, Stanford University
Ross has also written three World War One histories, including the international bestseller, The Lost Diggers, the story of his discovery of a hitherto hidden collection of photographs of allied soldiers behind the Somme Valley WW1 frontlines. His biography of Australia’s Official First World War historian Charles Bean won the 2015 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Australian History. His other books, best-sellers Dead Man Running and Above The Law explored organised crime in outlaw motorcycle gangs.
A law graduate, Ross is married and he has two daughters. He lives in the Southern Highlands south of Sydney in Australia’s NSW.