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Nike Pope |
Author, journalist and TV personality Nick Pope worked for the British
government for 21 years, at the Ministry of Defence. In the course of his
career, he served in a number of different posts, but is best known for work
that he did between 1991 and 1994, when he was posted to a division where his
duties included investigating reports of Unidentified Flying Objects. The
purpose of these investigations was to see whether anything reported might pose
any threat to the defence of the United Kingdom, or suggest the existence of
anything that might be of more general defence interest. Most sightings turned
out to be misidentifications of ordinary objects or phenomena, but a small
percentage remained unexplained. Contrary to popular belief, there was no
definitive evidence that any of these sightings were extraterrestrial in
origin. However, the Ministry of Defence remained open-minded about the
possibilities and took no position on the existence of extraterrestrial life.
Nick Pope was initially sceptical about UFOs, but his official research and
investigation convinced him that whatever the nature of the sightings that
remained unexplained, the UFO phenomenon raised important defence, national
security and air safety issues. He was particularly interested in cases
where the witnesses were pilots, or where UFOs were tracked on radar.
More recently, Nick Pope has been involved in the programme to declassify and
release the MoD’s UFO files and send them to the National Archives. This
involved selecting some cases that would be of interest to the media, making a
film to promote the release and giving newspaper, TV and radio interviews to
publicise the story.
Nick Pope left the Ministry of Defence in 2006. He now works as a freelance
journalist and media commentator, writing and broadcasting on a wide range of
subjects, including UFOs, the unexplained, conspiracy theories, fringe science,
defence, intelligence, space and science fiction.
Nick Pope works with a wide range of film companies, TV networks and production
companies, helping develop ideas for new films, TV shows and documentaries. He
contributes regularly to various news programmes, chat shows and documentaries.
Nick Pope works with various PR, marketing and advertising agencies, promoting
sci-fi films and advertising campaigns themed around the unexplained. He has
worked for clients that include Microsoft, 20th Century Fox and Sony Pictures
and has been involved in promoting The X-Files: I Want To Believe and
the remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still.
Nick Pope lectures all around the world and this has included addressing the
Oxford Union and the Cambridge Union Society, as well as speaking at the Science
Museum, the Royal Albert Hall and Global Competitiveness Forum 2011.
Nick Pope has written four books, all of which have been published by Simon &
Schuster. His non-fiction books are Open Skies Closed Minds, about
UFOs, and The Uninvited, about the alien abduction mystery. Both books
made the Top Ten in the Sunday Times list of hardback non-fiction books, with
Open Skies Closed Minds reaching number three and staying in the Top
Ten for ten weeks. These books have been translated into various foreign
languages. Nick Pope has also written two science fiction novels about an alien
invasion, Operation Thunder Child and Operation Lightning Strike.
There have been discussions about producing a film or a TV miniseries based on
these books.
Nick Pope lives in California.
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