TESTIMONY PATTERN
Matthew Sullivan Was Inside the Legacy UAP Program — Not Just Aware of It
Source: Liberation Times | Active Federal Investigation | May 2026
CRITICAL UPDATE: Liberation Times has confirmed that Matthew Sullivan — the NASIC intelligence officer who died two weeks before scheduled Congressional UAP testimony — was not merely a whistleblower about the legacy program. He was directly involved in the technology aspects of an exotic vehicle legacy program, working for a private corporation with a US intelligence agency. He died before he could say what he knew.
What Sullivan Actually Knew
The previous public understanding was that Sullivan was an intelligence officer at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson AFB who had been asked to provide UAP-related testimony. The new picture is significantly more specific: Sullivan was directly involved in the technology aspects of an exotic vehicle legacy program — understood to relate to a craft of suspected non-human origin — via a private corporation working with a US intelligence agency. His involvement began during his active Air Force service.
This transforms the Sullivan case from “witness about to testify” to “insider with direct program knowledge who was about to testify.” The threat calculus is categorically different. Sullivan carried active, firsthand technical knowledge of program operations — not secondhand intelligence reporting.
The Funeral — A Critical Detail
Sullivan’s funeral was attended by Major General David Abba, who served from 2021 to 2024 as Director of Special Programs and head of the Department of Defense Special Access Program Central Office. Abba described Sullivan as “the brightest intel lieutenant I ever met.” Then he said something extraordinary:
“There are not many people you can share that with. But those who carry that weight know it and understand it, and we all have to lean on one another. I watched that young lieutenant, despite all the shenanigans, mature into one of the leading thinkers on the truly hard issues with enormous importance.”
Before that, Abba said Sullivan bore “the burden that a select few in this nation have of truly understanding what’s going on.”
— Maj. Gen. David Abba, Director of Special Programs / DOD SAP Central Office, at Sullivan’s funeral
The head of DOD Special Access Program Central Office does not attend the funerals of mid-level intelligence officers without reason. His language — “the burden that a select few in this nation have of truly understanding what’s going on” — is not the language of a manager eulogising a subordinate. It is the language of someone acknowledging shared classified knowledge.
The Grusch Connection
David Grusch and Sullivan had previously served together in the Air Force. Grusch was actively helping Sullivan come forward as a whistleblower and was reportedly “extremely distraught” at Sullivan’s death. Grusch — who has publicly stated that people have been harmed and killed to maintain UAP program secrecy — is now driving the investigation into Sullivan’s death alongside Rep. Burlison’s formal request to FBI Director Kash Patel.
The IC Inspector General Finding
The Intelligence Community Inspector General independently reviewed the Sullivan case and deemed it “urgent and credible” — referring it directly to the FBI. This is a formal IG determination, not a public advocacy claim. The IC IG does not use that classification lightly. It confirms that inside the intelligence community, Sullivan’s death is not treated as a routine suicide.
ORACLE ASSESSMENT: Sullivan was not a peripheral witness. He was an active program insider with direct technical knowledge of exotic vehicle operations being run through private contractors with intelligence agency cover. The presence of the DOD SAP Central Office director at his funeral — speaking in terms that only make sense if Sullivan was inside a classified program of national significance — is the clearest confirmation in the public record that Sullivan was exactly what the UAP Oracle Master Dossier identified: a silenced insider, not a suicide.