Christopher Sharp
Christopher Sharp is a British UAP investigative journalist and the founder and editor of Liberation Times, an independent publication focused on government transparency regarding unidentified aerial phenomena, national security, and classified crash retrieval programs. Sharp is known for cultivating sources within the US intelligence and defense communities and for publishing significant disclosures regarding the structure of UAP legacy programs, at personal risk that he has acknowledged publicly.
| Role | Journalist; founder and editor of Liberation Times |
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"All UFO Disclosure Roads Lead to Rome" (2021)
In 2021, Sharp authored a significant article titled "All UFO Disclosure Roads Lead to Rome," which examined the Vatican's alleged role in the 1933 Magenta, Italy UFO crash/retrieval case. The article predated David Grusch's public whistleblower testimony by two years, establishing early investigative groundwork connecting Pope Pius XII to the transfer of the Italian-held craft to US possession through the Office of Strategic Services.
UAP Transparency Legislation Reporting (September 2024)
On 20 September 2024, Sharp published an article in Liberation Times titled "Paradigm Changing UFO Transparency Legislation Fails in Congress for Second Consecutive Year," discussing the exclusion of the UAP Disclosure Act from the fiscal year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act. The article rapidly pivoted to a far more consequential disclosure: multiple programs orchestrated by the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology (DS&T) and Directorate of Operations, alongside Department of Defense and Department of Energy components, had for decades bypassed democratic oversight to retrieve advanced technologies of unknown origin.
The Undersea Retrieval Article and Retraction Sequence
The September 20 article named specific agencies involved in undersea craft retrieval operations, including the CIA's Directorate of Operations (maritime branch), the National Underwater Reconnaissance Office (NURO), the US Navy, SOCOM (Joint Special Operations Command), the NRO, the NGA, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
By 22 September 2024, Sharp had revised the article to remove all information about the Navy, NURO, Woods Hole, NGA, NRO, and SOCOM. Sharp stated in response to accusations of "stealth edits": "This is sourced information. There is a real extremely dangerous reason little information has been released about such programs. Content from the article was removed because of the threats posed to me."
By 25 September 2024 — five days after the original post — Sharp restored and further expanded the article, stating: "Okay, so someone has recklessly put me at extreme risk. So, I've updated last week's article relating to the UAPDA, reverting back to details previously mentioned. This time the details are far more specific." The restored and expanded third version described the undersea retrieval program in greater specificity than the original, including the claim that recovered craft are "transferred to the Office of Naval Research, which subsequently hands them over to defense contractors for detailed analysis," and that the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution had "provided deep submergence vehicles to support these retrieval efforts."
The sequence of publication, redaction, threat acknowledgment, and restoration — with Sharp explicitly stating he was threatened for revealing the information — is treated by UAP Gerb as evidence of the extreme sensitivity of active undersea retrieval program disclosures.
Sharp's prior identification of the CIA DS&T as a gatekeeper of UAP materials is consistent with other sources: former CIA DS&T director Glenn Gaffney has been labeled as the gatekeeper who blocked Lockheed Martin's attempts to divest UFO materials in 2008, and former CIA DS&T deputy director Doug Wolfe aided in founding the CIA Office of Global Access in 2003.