Ross Coulthart: Trump Personally Authorizes Shoot-Down and Recovery of Non-Human Objects — Directed Energy Weapons Used Over White Sands (Aug 9, 2026)

Ross Coulthart reported on August 9, 2026 on NewsNation, based on multiple White House sources: President Trump has personally authorized a new intercept-and-recovery operation aimed at capturing suspected non-human exotic technology. The program is being run directly out of the White House by the President's most senior intelligence advisers and has been tasked to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is also involved. Crucially, the new program is being kept deliberately separate from the long-running legacy UAP retrieval effort — Coulthart: 'This is an attempt by the President to circumvent the legacy program.' Directed energy weapons have already been used in attempts to bring down craft over White Sands Missile Range. Those objects displayed anomalous performance matching the five observables that define UAP. The goal, according to sources: find out what these objects are and recover them.