British Military Has UFO Videos and Must Release Them, Says Nick Pope
Article by Henry Holloway May 13, 2021 (thesun.co.uk)
• Nick Pope, who turned a brief stint working at the UFO desk of the British Ministry of Defense in the 1990s into a career as a UFO ‘expert’, says he “knows for a fact” that the MoD has footage of UFOs filmed from RAF fighter jet gun cameras from the 1950s and 60s. He has no doubt that the British military has in its possession UFO footage and photos similar to what has been officially released by the US military. Pope is calling upon the British to release what they have, although the official British line is that their UFO videos have been lost and destroyed.
• Pope said that he would be “staggered” if there is not more recent footage in the hands of MoD brass given the stunning videos released by the US from the last two decades. “We have exactly the same kit as the US government, so I am sure there is a treasure trove of official photos and videos of UFOs… sitting there in MoD headquarters.”
• During his own time working with the MoD in the 1990s, military pilots would tell him about their own up close and personal encounters with UFOs. But they typically would not file a report due to fears of ridicule or “psychological evaluation”. MoD officials tells the The Sun Online that its UFO program was terminated in 2009. It is suspected that highly classified investigations continue behind closed doors, and that the UK continues to liaise with the US on UFOs.
• A potentially bombshell report on UFOs is due to be released in June after investigations by the Director of National Intelligence into a string of unexplained encounters with US warships and fighter planes. Pentagon officials have taken the unprecedented step of confirming videos and pictures of UFOs are real and admitting they don’t know what they really are.
• Pope says what is happening in the US right now is a “big deal” – and not to be underestimated. The UK Government was due to release a potentially bombshell UFO dossier in January due to the 30-year rule of declassification. But this has now been blocked until 2072.
• Pope thinks that a rally of support for the UFO disclosure in the UK could help the government publicly treat it as the “national security issue that it is”, but added the MoD will likely have to be dragged into it “kicking and screaming”. It appears there has been some information sharing. US officials are certainly aware of infamous UK incidents such as Rendlesham Forest UFO and the “Calvine UFO Photograph” from 1990.
• “Nowadays if people see something strange, they’ll report to a variety of different places, including military bases, airports, police stations, the media, and civilian UFO groups and researchers,” Pope said. But this results in everyone getting “a few pieces of the puzzle, but nobody’s seeing the whole picture”.
• “I call on the MoD to reopen the real-life X-Files and treat the issue in the way that it should be treated – as a serious defense and national security issue,” says Pope. UFO investigations may be ongoing behind closed doors, but the UK needs to be more transparent as officials are being in the US.
• UFO incidents in the UK are looked at in the same category as flight safety incidents and near misses, referring to sightings in coded language such as “‘unusual aircraft”, “unconventional helicopter” and “unidentified drone” – perhaps in an effort to dodge any British Freedom of Information Act requests.
• “It can’t have escaped the MoD’s notice that over the last three years the US government position on UFOs has fundamentally changed,” says Pope. The US “went from denying any interest and involvement, to a situation where they released videos of UFOs taken from US Navy jets, issued instructions to military pilots telling them what to do if they encounter a UFO, and had classified briefings in Congress.” “If the US thinks this is a serious defense and national security issue – and their actions clearly show they do – the UK should too.” “So either the MoD is engaged, and the truth hasn’t come out, or they’re not. Either scenario is scandalous.”
• Competing theories on the strange videos continue to rage. Some claim the videos capture never-before-seen military aircraft or drones, while others claim it shows otherworldly craft possibly piloted by aliens. The usual skeptics remain dismissive, blaming camera tricks, natural phenomena or even outright hoaxes.
• The US DoD was forced to admit that reports claiming their investigations were stopped in 2012 were not true. In 2019, the Pentagon admitted it launched investigations into UFO sightings and will continue to probe such reports in a bid to keep the nation safe. Luis Elizondo, who headed up the Pentagon’s UFO program said that ‘UFOs are here – and we cannot stop them’.
UFO videos just like the infamous US “Tic-Tac” clip
are likely being held by the British military, an ex-MoD investigator has said.
Nick Pope, one of the world’s leading experts on UFOs, has called on the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to release information about its own unexplained encounters.
Mr Pope, who worked to investigate UFOs for the MoD in the 90s and worked in Whitehall until 2004, told The Sun Online now it is time for Britain to come clean about its role in investigating UFOs.
Britain was due to release a bombshell UFO dossier in January but this has now been blocked until 2072.
He called for the release of any footage and photos being held by the MoD, with him being in no doubt Royal Navy and Royal Air Force have likely filmed clips similar to what are now being officially released by the US.
The investigator told The Sun Online he knows for a fact the MoD had footage of UFOs filmed from RAF fighter jet gun cameras on 8mm film from the 50s and 60s.
However, the official line is that the videos have been lost and destroyed.
But he said he would be “staggered” if there is not more recent footage in the hands of military brass given the stunning videos released by the US have occurred in the last two decades.
“We have exactly the same kit as the US government, so I am sure there is a treasure trove of official photos and videos of UFOs or UAPs – whatever they are – sitting there in MoD headquarters,” Mr Pope told The Sun Online.
During his own time working with the MoD, military pilots would tell him about “stunning” up close and personal encounters with UFOs.
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