https://www.liberationtimes.com/Late Air Force Officer Linked To Alleged Legacy UFO Program
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Written by Christopher Sharp - 24 April 2026
The late U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Matthew Sullivan, who died in 2024 before he could, according to Representative Eric Burlison, testify in a federal UFO whistleblower case, is understood by Liberation Times to have been involved in an alleged legacy UFO program.
Liberation Times further understands from sources that Sullivan was allegedly directly involved in the technology aspects of the UFO legacy program, believed to be related to an exotic vehicle suspected to be of non-human origin.
Liberation Times was told that Sullivan carried out this work for a private corporation working with a U.S. intelligence agency, although his involvement in the alleged legacy UFO program is understood to have begun during his time as an Air Force officer.
Representative Burlison has stated, “He [Sullivan] was scheduled to come in for an interview. Within two weeks, he had suspiciously committed suicide.”
Burlison has said he has “grave concerns” that Sullivan’s death appears “suspicious”, suggesting the veteran intelligence officer may have been silenced before he could reveal what he knew.
Sullivan had been contacted by Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) whistleblower and retired U.S. Air Force Major David Grusch before the intelligence officer’s sudden death, which reportedly left Grusch extremely distraught.
'Grusch was helping him come forward as a whistleblower,' Burlison told the Daily Mail last week.
Liberation Times understands that Grusch and Sullivan had previously served together within the Air Force.
As a U.S. Air Force intelligence officer, Sullivan served at a number of high-level institutions, including the National Air and Space Intelligence Center, the National Security Agency and the Air Force Intelligence Agency.
He also deployed to U.S. Central Command and U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, and his obituary states that he earned a Bronze Star for his valor during Operation Enduring Freedom.
Notably, Sullivan’s funeral was attended by Major General David Abba, who served between 2021 and 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” and worked as his supervisor at Langley Air Force Base.
Abba said Sullivan carried “the burden that a select few in this nation have of truly understanding what’s going on”, adding that he bore that weight every day.
“There are not many people you can share that with,” he said. “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 implications for our country. It frustrated him to no end that we so often could not get out of our own way.”
Sullivan’s death has come to light amid wider media coverage of eleven scientists and defense-linked figures in the United States who have reportedly died or disappeared, many of them tied to classified aerospace and defense programs.
Among the most notable cases is the disappearance of retired U.S. Air Force General William “Neil” McCasland, who vanished from his home in Albuquerque in February.
McCasland was a former commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, placing him at the centre of some of the Pentagon’s most advanced aerospace research.
After leaving the military, he became involved with Blink-182 musician Tom DeLonge and his UAP-related efforts, which helped lay the groundwork for the modern congressional push for disclosure on UAP.
One note I would add to this is that as it says in the article that Abba was ”head of the Department of Defense Special Access Program Central Office.” As I understand it McCasland was one of his predecessors on that post, an interesting coincidence.
