My name's Nick Pope and I used to run the British Government's UFO project, Ask Me Anything

reply to post by NickPope


Good morning to you, sir. I am John Skieswanne, pleased to meet you.

I would be honoured to know some of your thoughts about some wild theories around here.

1) I once theorized that some of these UFOs could in fact be military projects whose appearance causes confusion and thus can operate without risking persecution. According to this possibility, all UFOs are manmade crafts with different technological evolution, and this "E.T." thing is just some sort of a worldwide craze.

2) Another theory is that higher levels (a "cryptocracy") works hand-in-hand with non-human beings (namely, renegade Sirians, or other allies to the draconian empire, such as the greys, renegades Aldebaranians or even reptilians such as the J-rods) to increase and ensure tight control over the Earth and the solar system. In such a possibility, it is obvious the "cryptocracy" would keep the relation a secret.

3) Another yet theories is that there's an invasion coming, but due to the failed panic test of the Edwards Base, the people wasn't notified, so to avoid general panic, and, thus, enormous casualties.

According to your investigations, what would you say is, really, going on? I know from one of your interview transcripts that you feel there's efforts at Hollywood to make Mankind less afraid of E.T.s. It is my understanding that you are confident that extraterrestrial life does exist and did contacted governments. Obviously, if a more advanced civilisation exists, the first military to contact it and get a grip on its technology, wins undeniable advantages over other nations.

But if I may ask... what could make us confident that there is any ET life out there? I would like to cite for instance the Rendelsham Forest incident to demonstrate my point. The craft had egyptian-like markings, and carried high level of radioactivity. How can we be sure that this craft wasn't made by some secret agency in an attempt to explore cutting-edge technologies? If an "advanced" civilisation was to use a power source, antimatter would be a far better choice since it directly converts to 100% energy, against about 6% (non-kinetic) energy for nuclear.

Also, on now an unrelated line of thought:

I was wondering if perhaps you would know the motive behind NASA's Kepler Project (searching for habitable exoplanets) choice to look into Cygnus . Why Cygnus?

I sincerely hope I'm not taking too much of your time.

Respectfully,

Swan

reply to post by sheepslayer247


The US and UK governments exchanged information on UFOs at various times in the past, but I'm not aware of any current liaison on this subject.

reply to post by NickPope



Dear Mr Pope,

Please could you use the quote button when replying, thank you.

reply to post by NickPope


Mr. Pope, first of all, thank you for visiting ATS and inviting us to ask you anything. We are very honoured.

I do not wish to take your precious time, so, I'll go right to the point:

Does Greys truly exists on Earth? Their descriptions states clearly that they have a huge head, a very long and slim neck, and a very small body, with no muscular strenght.

Yet, that directly contradicts Earth's gravity law. No being with such a small and tiny body can support such big and heavy head, and most importantly, the long and thin neck itself wouldn't be able to support the head. Long story short, the neck would break, and the body would fall under the weight.

On Earth, all beings, that is humans or animals, have first of all a large and short neck, in proportions to the being's head size, and an equally proportioned and muscular body, unlike Greys

So I cannot understand how Greys can even walk or fly at low altitude on Earth, such as claimed.

Could you please enlighten me? Can Greys really interact on Earth, or are they rather an elaborate military/governmental illusion, to keep us away from discovering the real aliens visiting us?

Thank you,

Starheart.

Hello Nick

Did recorded sightings and cases have to pass through a sort of check list ticky box form.

reply to post by NickPope


Thank you sir - great having you on here - and to have the chance to speak to you again.

Could you answer if the British Investigators took the alleged abduction reports as seriously as they did alleged craft possibly being other countries military craft or unknown (ET)?

Again, thank you for your consideration.

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Hi Nick,

At your level of clearance while working in the government, were there ever cases that even YOU weren't allowed to investigate?

this is my 1,000th post
how fitting that i get to ask mr. pope a question with it
howaya nick,
have you ever seen any relics that you couldnt explain?

Welcome Nick and great to have you on this site! Maybe this question has been asked or is not your area of expertise but what can you tell of the so called Planet X or as some would like to call it...Nibiru?

reply to post by unphased


While I'm aware of theories that there may be an inter-dimensional aspect to the UFO phenomenon, I've seen no evidence to support this hypothesis. Naturally, however, I'm following with interest some of the research being done on "extra dimensions" at the Large Hadron Collider and elsewhere.

also sorry second question,have you any information on why bonnybridge in scotland seems to be ufo capital of was going to say scotland but seems to be britain.

reply to post by PsykoOps


Compared to civilian UFO groups and researchers, MoD received comparatively few hoax accounts and fake photos/videos. I suspect people (rightly) judged that it wasn't a wise move to waste our time!

As mentioned before. Could you please use the quote button when replying so we can see the question your answering.

Thank you

reply to post by Freenrgy2


I've not seen evidence of any technology that would reduce or eliminate our dependence on oil. However, we were well aware that if any of the exotic claims about UFOs were true, the possibility existed that some sort of non-conventional energy source/propulsion system was involved. Technology acquisition was therefore a key factor in official interest and one reason for the secrecy. Also, while not popular with those who take a more spiritual/New Age view of all this, there's the point that such technology is doubtless capable of weaponization.

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You only need to click on the top left part of the post where it says reply to post by to see the original post.

As you can in this post to see your post I am replying to.

Originally posted by Rosinitiate
I would like to get your personal take on how much of the sightings we see or are recorded and blamed on UFO's are actually top secret craft? Do you know if the government or military actively perpetuate the UFO meme to help cloud the top secret research?

Would you say 95% is governemnt/military or 100%?

edit on 26-8-2013 by Rosinitiate because: (no reason given)

Mr. Pope....was the purpose of your investigations more about the technology or the intelligence behind the technology and was there ever a thought that this technology was from human intelligence from another government rather than extraterrestrial in nature?

ATS, thanks, you're great.

NICK

What about foo fighters?

These are the glowing balls that became famous in WW II. Some of this has been explained as Venus sightings from my understanding, but many of these reports sound very real.

Also there is the Hessdalen phenomenon.

What percentage of these types of phenomenon look to be legitimate? Is there any possibility that these types of UFOs could be plasma life forms that share our biosphere with us?

Thanks

reply to post by Maxmars


Unless we were facing an "Independence Day"/"War of the Worlds" scenario, I doubt we'd see panic in the streets. To cut a long story short, you don't shock people by revealing something that they already believe in. This was one of several 'societal consequences' issues stemming from the discovery of extraterrestrial life that were discussed at two Royal Society meetings on the subject that I attended in 2010 and about which I've written extensively.