# Is the US government covering up technology that would crash the oil industry? | Reality Check Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart-7475472/is-the-us-government-covering-up-technology-that-would-crash-the-oil-industry-reality-check Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart-7475472/is-the-us-government-covering-up-technology-that-would-crash-the-oil-industry-reality-check.md Podcast: [Reality Check with Ross Coulthart](https://stenobird.com/podcast/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart-7475472) Published: 2026-06-09T21:00:01+00:00 Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mike-ewing5/episodes/Is-the-US-government-covering-up-technology-that-would-crash-the-oil-industry---Reality-Check-e3ki9i9 Audio file: https://anchor.fm/s/1120e1b00/podcast/play/121234441/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-9%2F425814835-44100-2-556191df57c9e.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart-7475472/episodes/is-the-us-government-covering-up-technology-that-would-crash-the-oil-industry-reality-check Duration seconds: 2984 ## Resource Ross Coulthart explores untold stories using a fact-based approach to address various topics, from unidentified aerial phenomena to other mysteries that often go unreported. In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with Matthew Tuttle. He's the CEO and chief investment officer of Tuttle Capital Management, a U.S.-based thematic exchange-traded fund firm. Together, they examine the financial and legal aspects of UAP disclosure, an angle rarely explored in mainstream coverage of the phenomenon. Tuttle recently launched UFOD, one of the first U.S. listed ETFs explicitly built around the UAP disclosure thesis. The fund is anchored in what he calls the "secret gap," the long-standing disparity between classified government technology and what the public has been allowed to know while aerospace contractors, quantum computing firms, drone manufacturers and alternative energy companies are positioned to benefit if suppressed technologies are ever released. Coulthart and Tuttle dig into the legal implications of continuous disclosure obligations for publicly listed defense contractors, the extraordinary admission by Lockheed Martin CEO James Taiclet that the company possesses technology he described as "magical and game-changing." They also explore why the Department of War has now failed seven consecutive annual financial audits, leaving $1.8 trillion in assets unaccounted for. They also tackle the question of whether a formal UAP disclosure would trigger the market shock economists have warned about, or whether the world is already more prepared than most assume. #LockheedMartin #UAPdisclosure #UFOD CREDITS Host: Ross Coulthart Executive Producer: Andy Gipson Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick Segment Producer: Christine Jenkin… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart-7475472/episodes/is-the-us-government-covering-up-technology-that-would-crash-the-oil-industry-reality-check/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart-7475472/is-the-us-government-covering-up-technology-that-would-crash-the-oil-industry-reality-check.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.