When it comes to UFOs, there’s little that surprises Nick Pope these days. The former British civil servant spent 21 years at the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and between 1991 and 1994 was assigned to its highly classified ‘UFO desk’, charged with looking into reports of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, or UAPs, a phrase Pope adopted internally to get away from the “pop-culture baggage” associated with the term UFO. It wasn’t your average job. “The remit was to investigate all sightings in the United Kingdom air defence region and assess whether there was evidence of any threat,” Pope explains.
The Cold War had come to an end but that didn’t mean that unknown, advanced technologies from a hostile state couldn’t be out there testing the UK’s capabilities. And if they were, the MOD wanted to know about it. While Pope was in charge he would receive around 300 reports a year. Most had a rational explanation. Meteors or misidentified planes. Satellites or weather balloon
The Truth Is Out There But Will They Really Admit It
In 180 days or less, Congress is supposed to get the lowdown on UFOs. Will they? If so, will they tell us about it? I doubt it.
When it comes to UFO s and aliens, I m a wannabe -liever. Meaning that I feel it s more than possible that there are other life forms out there and have seen, read, and heard things that seem to back that up. I have no hard proof though since, neither I nor any of my friends have yet been abducted.
I really want to believe in them but, so far, the only aliens I have encountered were humanoid in appearance and came bearing tequila.
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A dossier with more than 700 unsealed CIA reports on UFOs was published on The Black Vault last week
The documents revealed chilling accounts of hundreds of UFO sightings across the globe dating back to the 1950s - along with the international intelligence community s efforts to understand them
One report describes a 1952 meeting where top US officials discussed plans for Project Blue Book
The project was launched by the CIA and the Air Force in 1952 and reviewed thousands of UFO sightings at home and abroad to determine whether they posed a true threat to the US during the Cold War
Declassified report from the CIA s bombshell UFO dossier reveals the meeting where top military officials launched 16-year Project Blue Book study of flying saucers in 1952
A dossier with more than 700 unsealed CIA reports on UFOs was published on The Black Vault last week
The documents revealed chilling accounts of hundreds of UFO sightings across the globe dating back to the 1950s - along with the international intelligence community s efforts to understand them
One report describes a 1952 meeting where top US officials discussed plans for Project Blue Book
The project was launched by the CIA and the Air Force in 1952 and reviewed thousands of UFO sightings at home and abroad to determine whether they posed a true threat to the US during the Cold War
an interagency process of ensuring timely data collection
centralized analysis of all unidentified aerial phenomena and a designated official responsible for reporting this information to the Federal Government
identify any national security threats posed by UFOs
asses whether any of the nation s adversaries could be responsible for the activities
NOTE: While the report must be unclassified, it can contain a classified annex.
The last few years have seen a great deal of UFO activity around the globe, and the Pentagon has been surprisingly forthcoming about UFO activity that was once classified, going so far as to release unidentified aerial phenomena video clips to the public that are confirmed by the U.S. Navy to be genuine.