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The Good Trouble Show with Matt Ford.

An independent investigative program covering UFOs, UAP, congressional oversight, FOIA-driven document recovery, and the intelligence community. Hosted and reported by Matt Ford. Produced solo from Los Angeles.

HOST · REPORTER
Matt Ford
EPISODES
246 · weekly
YOUTUBE
139K subscribers
ESTABLISHED
August 2022
Matt Ford, host of The Good Trouble Show
Matt Ford, photographed in the Los Angeles studio.
HOST & REPORTER

Matt Ford.

Matt Ford is a journalist and host of The Good Trouble Show, an investigative platform covering national security, government accountability, and UAP disclosure. His reporting draws on a deep network of sources inside the U.S. intelligence and defense communities.

Ford has interviewed Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Congressman Eric Burlison, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Christopher Mellon, and Pentagon whistleblower Luis Elizondo, and met privately with UAP whistleblower David Grusch a year before he came forward publicly.

Ford previously served as Director of Strategy for the Disclosure Foundation (formerly the UAP Disclosure Fund), the civil society organization advancing UAP policy research, legal support, and public education. He has appeared on News Nation, had his reporting amplified by Real Time with Bill Maher’s social channels, and contributed commentary to The Daily Mail, The Debrief, and Crooks and Liars.

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BEHIND THE CAMERA

From behind the camera to in front of it.

Matt Ford has spent more than two decades working in lighting for network television, on shows including Jimmy Kimmel Live!, America's Got Talent, and Penn & Teller: Fool Us.

As a lighting director on the lighting team for the 70th and 71st Annual Academy Awards telecasts, he won Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lighting Direction in 1998 and 1999. He earned three more Emmy nominations in Lighting Direction, for Jimmy Kimmel Live!, American Idol, and America: A Tribute to Heroes.

Matt discovered he enjoys being in front of the camera instead of behind it, and in August 2022 he launched The Good Trouble Show.

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WHAT WE COVER

The beats.

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UAP & UFOs

Original reporting on UAP encounters, sensor data, witness statements, and the public-record evidence base. The show interviews named officers, pilots, scientists, and analysts on the record.

Congressional Oversight

Coverage of every open and reportable closed UAP hearing since May 2022, with a focus on the House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

AARO, AATIP & the Pentagon

Investigation of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, its predecessor programs (AATIP, AAWSAP), and the Department of Defense’s historical record review.

FOIA & Document Recovery

Document-driven reporting on declassified materials, FOIA litigation, and records the federal government has acknowledged exist but has not released.

Intelligence Community Oversight

Investigation of compartmented programs, special access programs, the CIA Office of Global Access, and the gap between what is briefed and what is not.

UAP / UFOs & Nuclear Weapons

Witness-driven reporting on incidents at U.S. and Soviet nuclear weapons facilities, including the 1965 Minuteman incident and related congressional record.

ON THE RECORD

The record.

DAILY MAIL · 28 NOVEMBER 2023
INVESTIGATION

CIA's secret office has conducted UFO retrieval missions on at least NINE crash sites around the world, whistleblowers claim

Co-bylined by Josh Boswell, Chris Sharp, and Matt Ford.

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HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE · 18 NOVEMBER 2024
WRITTEN STATEMENT

Written Statement of Matthew Ford

Posted in the House committee repository for the 13 November 2024 joint subcommittee hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena, with Luis Elizondo's witness documents.

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CYBERNEWS · 4 JUNE 2026
COVERAGE

UFO journalist claims CIA tracked him after bombshell report

By Marcus Walsh.

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