It has been almost a decade since Lue Elizondo first emerged as one of the most prominent public faces of the modern UFO / UAP issue, following the New York Times’ 2017 reporting on AATIP, the Pentagon’s secretive Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.

Following recent reporting that White House and defense officials have sought advice on how to prepare the public for a possible announcement regarding UAP and non-human intelligence, Liberation Times has spoken to additional sources who believe the consequences of such a moment would extend far beyond Washington.

Matthew Tuttle is no stranger to unconventional investments. 

But with the Tuttle Capital UFO Disclosure ETF – ticker symbol UFOD – the chief executive and chief investment officer of Connecticut-based Tuttle Capital Management may have made the defining bet of his career: that UFO disclosure will not just reshape politics and culture, but markets too.

President Donald Trump’s administration has done something unprecedented. It has committed itself to UFO transparency, putting its weight and authority behind a series of intriguing files, images and videos. 

The official line: there are true anomalies which the head of the Pentagon’s UFO office does not understand with his physics and engineering background, and from his time in the Intelligence Community. 

The late U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Matthew Sullivan, who died in 2024 before he could, according to Representative Eric Burlison, testify in a federal UFO whistleblower case, is understood by Liberation Times to have been involved in an alleged legacy UFO program.

A War Department official has told Liberation Times that the Pentagon’s dedicated UFO office is working with the White House and federal agencies to prepare the release of previously unseen Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) material.

The first and most immediately obvious takeaway is that European NATO states have major problems of their own in the Baltic Sea, North Sea, Black Sea, Atlantic Ocean, Arctic and English Channel, just as President Trump wants them to deploy scarce, precious naval resources to the Straits of Hormuz.

Liberation Times has obtained records detailing drone incidents around sensitive U.S. nuclear facilities. The documents point to a spate of activity around critical infrastructure between September 2022 and February 2023. 

An alleged Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) investigation overseen by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has come under scrutiny over claims of whistleblower intimidation, false allegations and efforts to discredit those who came forward.

Two weeks have now passed since retired U.S. Air Force General William ‘Neil’ McCasland vanished from the edge of Albuquerque, and the facts, such as they are, remain spare, cold and strangely resistant to meaning.

A passenger jet crossing the North Atlantic can move from one system for handling reports of unidentified objects to another without anything on board changing at all.

Liberation Times understands Representative Eric Burlison, a key congressional Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena advocate, visited Naval Air Station Patuxent River (Pax River) in Maryland last month on a White House-approved trip. 

Former President Barack Obama unleashed a storm, whether he meant to or not. When American podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen asked, “Are aliens real?”, Barack Obama gave an answer that exceeded expectations: “They’re real, but I haven’t seen them, and they’re not being kept in Area 51,” he said in the interview released on 14 February.

On a bitter Sunday morning in January 2023, as New York sat cold and dry beyond the Fox & Friends studio walls, former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said something that should have sent a chill through the American national security apparatus.

November to December 2024 saw some fascinating events at many strategically important Royal Air Force bases used by the Americans in the UK.

They had all the ingredients for a genuinely anomalous UFO mystery: strange lights in the sky, multiple locations, repeat incidents, nuclear weapons, deployment of Special Forces, unknown actors, with the major East Anglia base cluster in a region already steeped in UFO history around airbases and nukes.

Multiple sources have told Liberation Times that, during the Obama administration, senior intelligence figures James Clapper and Stephanie O’Sullivan oversaw a program relating to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. 

Two months ago, the documentary The Age of Disclosure premiered in theaters and on Amazon Prime Video. In the film, 34 government officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and senior members of Congress from both parties, reveal what they are able to disclose publicly about unidentified flying objects (UFOs).

Liberation Times understands that an exotic vehicle of unknown origin has been stored for decades at Naval Air Station Patuxent River (‘Pax River’) in Maryland. When asked, sources have declined to describe the vehicle or disclose where it was found.

In 2025, Senator Mitch McConnell and his staff played a central role in the derailment of major Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) transparency legislation, according to sources who spoke to Liberation Times.