UFO investigations by British government were blocked by ‘demonic forces’

The U.K.’s foremost UFO expert said that the British government failed to investigate reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena(UAPs) in the 1990s because they feared ‘demonic forces’ were at play.

Nick Pope, a former high-ranking member of the Ministry of Defence and their UFO chief between 1991 and 1994, said that Lord Hill-Norton, the chief of staff, nixed any probes into possible extraterrestrial encounters because he was influenced by a priest who deduced that UFOs were demonic.

The U.S. government, Pope claims, has had similar religious objections in the past. Many American officials had looked for biblical reference points to inform their investigations into UFOs, which are now known as UAPs.

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«It’s counter-intuitive that some official resistance to taking UAP seriously comes not from hard-nosed science-minded sceptics who think studying the subject is a waste of government time and money, but from a faction that believes UAP are real – but demonic,» the UFO expert said when talking to Metro.co.uk.

«This stems in part from a biblical description of Satan as being “the prince of the power of the air” – a quotation from the book of Ephesians,» Pope said when explaining further.

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There is an abundance of theories bandied about the internet that UFOs may indeed have religious origins. A new documentary titled God Vs UFOs has explored that very topic. However, there has never been an official confirmation from a government that their extraterrestrial policy may be shaped by scripture.

These religious theories, Pope said, are impeding extensive research into extraterrestrials. «The thinking seems to be that if UFOs are some sort of demonic manifestation, engaging with it feeds them, by giving them energy, and should therefore be avoided,» he reasoned.

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«This was likely to have been a factor in something reported by Pentagon UFO investigator Luis Elizondo. He said that when trying to get a senior defence official engaged on the subject, he was rebuffed by the officer, who told him to go and read his bible.»

This line of thinking, Pope says, emerged from the United States and eventually became the school of thought among many governmental officials in Britain. «I saw a similar thing in the UK, when the former Chief of the Defence Staff Lord Hill-Norton – who I briefed on several occasions – fell increasingly under the influence of a maverick priest, Paul Inglesby, who believed the phenomenon was demonic,» he said.

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Reverend Inglesby is a WWII veteran who served in the Navy. During the war, he became extremely ill and suffered from hallucinations, including «an out of body journey to Mars» and this colored his views on extraterrestrials.

After his service was up, Inglesby joined a church where he would become an influence on figures such as Earl Mountbatten, the uncle of Prince Phillip. This influence, Pope believed, proved malign in the context of getting the British government to throw their weight behind UFO investigations.

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‘This was particularly unfortunate because Lord Hill-Norton was arguably the leader of what might be called a “believer faction” in the establishment,’ outlined Mr. Pope.

‘He’d tabled numerous questions in Parliament about UAP, and was pressuring defence ministers to release information on UFO cases such as the Rendlesham Forest incident.

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‘Inglesby’s steering him away from a defence and national security focus and towards a religious interpretation of UAP was an unwelcome distraction and something I fought hard to counter.’

The Rendlesham Forest incident refers to Britain’s most notorious extraterrestrial sightings. Starting on Boxing Day(December 26) 1980, there were three days of sightings of scorch marks and broken branches attributed to a ‘craft of unknown origin’ in the woods near a military base in Suffolk in England.

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The unsolved case is described by many as «Britains Roswell.» The UFO department of the Ministry of Defence closed down in 2009 because none of the reports they had received in over 50 years had been deemed a threat to Britain militarily.

«It makes one wonder what other government scepticism and pushback on UAP is motivated by extreme religious views and belief in the reality of demons,» said Pope, when speculating that the closure may be religious in motivation.

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