Christopher Sharp studied English and media at the University of Winchester and built a career in communications, working as a senior consultant at a UK public relations firm specialising in the built environment. In 2021 he founded Liberation Times, an independent online publication covering unidentified anomalous phenomena from London. By 2022 he was also writing for the Daily Mail as a senior contributing journalist. The combination of an independent platform for analysis and a global tabloid for reach has made him one of the most consequential UAP journalists working outside the United States.
His About page describes Liberation Times with a single line: “Liberation Times provides insights about some of today’s most compelling stories, most notably relating to Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.” The tagline is “Reimagining Old News.” The site operates on Squarespace, supported by a Patreon with 279 paying members and a donation function. It is primarily a one-person operation. Sharp is the sole named editor and primary byline.
The Reporting Record
Sharp’s most significant reporting has appeared under Daily Mail co-bylines, reaching an audience the independent site alone could not. The stories have included the first publicly revealed UAP footage from a US spy plane in a conflict zone (a metallic orb over Mosul, January 2023), leaked thermal images of a cylindrical object near Baghdad (March 2023), footage of a large triangular object hovering over a California Marine base (May 2023), and evidence files from an Italian researcher relating to an alleged 1933 UAP crash in Magenta, Italy (July 2023).
The most consequential story appeared on 28 November 2023. Co-bylined by Sharp, Josh Boswell, and Matt Ford, the Daily Mail reported that the CIA’s Office of Global Access, within the Science and Technology Directorate, had coordinated recovery missions at a minimum of nine alleged crash sites worldwide, according to three anonymous sources. Ross Coulthart independently corroborated the reporting on NewsNation the following day: “They have been doing crash retrieval for many years. I’ve got it also confirmed independently by multiple senior intelligence sources.” Missouri Representative Eric Burlison told the Daily Mail: “These are the kind of specific programs we’ve been trying to get the names of.”
In early 2026, the Daily Mail removed the article from its UK website without issuing a retraction or explanation. Matt Ford republished the full text on his Substack in May 2026. Ford’s account of the reporting described Sharp as having initiated the story, with Ford contributing contacts and Boswell carrying it to publication.
Sharp’s independent reporting on Liberation Times has included early reporting that Congress had verified information about retrieval programmes (October 2022), sourced claims about non-human craft being stored at Naval Air Station Patuxent River (January 2026), and an account of a White House-approved congressional trip to examine a suspected UAP facility in Maryland (March 2026). He has also obtained records documenting drone incursions at US nuclear sites (April 2026).
The UK Dimension
Sharp’s London base shapes what he covers and how. His reporting on RAF Lakenheath and the East Anglia base cluster addresses UAP activity at US-operated facilities on British soil. A March 2024 Daily Mail exclusive reported an alleged British special forces recovery of a non-human craft in northern England in the late 1980s, sourced to Franc Milburn, a former Parachute Regiment veteran and Defence Intelligence officer. In October 2024, Sharp referenced the Pathfinder intelligence fusion facility at RAF Wyton, described in the Telegraph as “the largest Top Secret, Five Eyes by design, military intelligence fusion and assessment facility in the world.”
A March 2026 piece titled “An Invisible Atlantic Boundary Where UFO Reporting Changes” examined why American and British reporting on the same phenomena differs so markedly. The UK dimension is not incidental to Liberation Times. It is structural: Sharp covers the transatlantic relationship from the side that receives less attention.
Sourcing and Method
Sharp relies substantially on anonymous sources, using the formulation “Liberation Times understands” as a marker for information from undisclosed intelligence and defence contacts. Named sources appear alongside anonymous ones: congressional representatives, whistleblowers, and figures such as Jeremy Corbell are quoted on the record. The Daily Mail co-bylines add a layer of institutional editorial oversight to stories that originate in Sharp’s independent sourcing network.
The archive documents Liberation Times because the disclosure story is partly a journalism story. Who reports what, from where, using which sources, determines what enters the public record. Sharp operates at the junction of an independent platform and a global tabloid, UK-based sourcing and Washington policy, named testimony and anonymous intelligence. The documentary record includes the journalism that produces it.
From the Archive
- The Black Vault: Greenewald works through FOIA requests; Sharp works through source cultivation. Both feed the documentary record.
- uNHIdden: both UK-based. Sharp is networked with uNHIdden’s advocacy circle and covers the institutional context in which uNHIdden’s public health argument operates.
- The Disclosure Foundation: Sharp covers the Washington policy space where the Disclosure Foundation operates. His CIA/OGA reporting and the Foundation’s congressional engagement address the same institutional questions.
- Americans for Safe Aerospace: the Nimitz encounter that Sharp’s August 2024 exclusive revisited is the same incident that shaped ASA’s founding.
