At the 20th Annual International UFO Congress (IUFOC), held over five days in February 2011 in Scottsdale (Arizona), about 30 speakers took part, presenting opinions on extraterrestrial technologies, government cover-ups, black projects, circles in chains, visits by extraterrestrials, etc.
Paul Hellyer, former Canadian Minister of Defense, retired American colonel John Alexander, Linda Moulton Howe, TV producer and reporter, nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman, etc. were present. Also present was Nick Pope, the author of the highly successful book “Open Skies Closed Minds”, who was, between 1991–93, a civil servant, the head of the UFO office in the Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom. He was said to be Britain’s real-life “Fox Mulder” (the one from the “X-files” series).
When asked by AOL News reporters, Nick Pope stated: “I was tasked with investigating every UFO sighting reported to the ministry and assessing whether it had any defense significance… for example, whether the sightings could tell us anything useful about aerodynamics and propulsion systems. Regardless of what these objects were, regardless of whether they presented a threat or not, they could be interesting from a technological perspective.”
During his 21-year career at the Ministry of Defense, Pope held numerous positions. In 1991, when he began his three-year internship in the aforementioned office, he was skeptical about the UFO phenomenon. “The position of the Ministry of Defense was: We don’t know what these things are, we don’t think they have any military significance (since after decades of investigations there is no evidence of any hostile intent), but the ministry says it remains receptive, including to the possibility of alien intelligence. In other words, the department does not assume a point of view in one sense or another”.
After three years in charge of the British Ministry of Defence’s UFO office, Pope was far less skeptical than at first. His activity allowed him to draw some conclusions: “I think I found, like others who were before me in government UFO programs, that these apparitions have, for the…
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