Post by auntym on Nov 13, 2015 14:58:19 GMT -6
loaded.co.uk/why-the-truth-about-aliens-will-never-be-out-there/
11.11.2015
by John Earls / loaded.co.uk/author/john-earls/
why the truth about aliens will never be out there
Ex-MOD investigator Nick Pope reveals the catch-22 used to hide UFO cases.
Uninvestigatable Flying Objects The Ministry of Defence’s former UFO analyst says his bosses’ policy was to refuse to probe alien cases marked ’unexplained’.
UFOs: typically only ever spotted by drunks, oddballs, Robbie Williams and Shaun Ryder, and especially in the woods.
If anyone truly has the answer to whether the truth is out there, it should be Nick Pope. He spent three years getting paid by the government to study UFO reports and is now a consultant on films including The X Files.
A real-life Mulder, Pope was a regular civil servant in the Ministry of Defence when, in 1991, he was transferred to the vague-sounding Air Staff (Secretariat) department.
He was later named head of the British government’s UFO Project. What Pope saw during his years as a MoD UFO investigator turned him from, in his words, a “total sceptic” to someone who was convinced aliens were a reality.
Pope is currently helping the MoD sift through around 2,000 previously-secret UFO files that will soon be released to the public, possibly as early as this month.
“Once a case is marked ‘Not explained’ it sits there on file, with no resource to investigate further”
Now, he reveals the Catch-22 irony at the heart of his old job.
Pope was paid to investigate what couldn’t be explained. But when UFO sightings couldn’t be accounted for by Chinese lanterns and the like the files were marked ‘unexplained’. (They were therefore the cases that merited in-depth investigation.) Yet – and here’s the Catch-22 – if any cases were marked ‘unexplained’ the government refused to investigate them any further. So, the real-life X Files are left to gather dust. Earnest, bespectacled, suited and with short greying hair, Pope appears every inch the typical civil servant.
Even after he found fame within UFO circles after he published his first book Open Skies Closed Minds in 1996, Pope carried on working for the MoD for another 10 years.
Pope studied around 250 UFO reports a year for the British government and continues to get dozens of emails a week from people giving accounts of alien sightings.
Most can be very quickly dismissed as aeroplane lights, Chinese lanterns, weather balloons, weird clouds and so on. Once a year on average, however, something comes along the coolly rational Pope can’t explain.
CONTINUE READING: loaded.co.uk/why-the-truth-about-aliens-will-never-be-out-there/
11.11.2015
by John Earls / loaded.co.uk/author/john-earls/
why the truth about aliens will never be out there
Ex-MOD investigator Nick Pope reveals the catch-22 used to hide UFO cases.
Uninvestigatable Flying Objects The Ministry of Defence’s former UFO analyst says his bosses’ policy was to refuse to probe alien cases marked ’unexplained’.
UFOs: typically only ever spotted by drunks, oddballs, Robbie Williams and Shaun Ryder, and especially in the woods.
If anyone truly has the answer to whether the truth is out there, it should be Nick Pope. He spent three years getting paid by the government to study UFO reports and is now a consultant on films including The X Files.
A real-life Mulder, Pope was a regular civil servant in the Ministry of Defence when, in 1991, he was transferred to the vague-sounding Air Staff (Secretariat) department.
He was later named head of the British government’s UFO Project. What Pope saw during his years as a MoD UFO investigator turned him from, in his words, a “total sceptic” to someone who was convinced aliens were a reality.
Pope is currently helping the MoD sift through around 2,000 previously-secret UFO files that will soon be released to the public, possibly as early as this month.
“Once a case is marked ‘Not explained’ it sits there on file, with no resource to investigate further”
Now, he reveals the Catch-22 irony at the heart of his old job.
Pope was paid to investigate what couldn’t be explained. But when UFO sightings couldn’t be accounted for by Chinese lanterns and the like the files were marked ‘unexplained’. (They were therefore the cases that merited in-depth investigation.) Yet – and here’s the Catch-22 – if any cases were marked ‘unexplained’ the government refused to investigate them any further. So, the real-life X Files are left to gather dust. Earnest, bespectacled, suited and with short greying hair, Pope appears every inch the typical civil servant.
Even after he found fame within UFO circles after he published his first book Open Skies Closed Minds in 1996, Pope carried on working for the MoD for another 10 years.
Pope studied around 250 UFO reports a year for the British government and continues to get dozens of emails a week from people giving accounts of alien sightings.
Most can be very quickly dismissed as aeroplane lights, Chinese lanterns, weather balloons, weird clouds and so on. Once a year on average, however, something comes along the coolly rational Pope can’t explain.
CONTINUE READING: loaded.co.uk/why-the-truth-about-aliens-will-never-be-out-there/