World Governments Are Finally Admitting What They Know About UFOs
Despite decades of official excuses, it appears we may finally have definitive evidence our planet has not only been the site of off-planet vehicles entering Earth’s atmosphere but that the government has withheld knowledge of it. High-quality camera phones— and now military footage— have made UFO sightings indisputable. And after denying it had knowledge of the existence of these anomalous crafts for decades, the United States military is finally starting to break its silence about what it knows.
Nick Pope, who now serves as a journalist and researcher in the field of ufology, was once a key employee of the British Ministry of Defense (MoD), responsible for investigating UFOs to determine if they posed a threat to national security. Having served more than 21 years in the Defense Department, Pope’s knowledge of UFOs and his insider track record makes him one of the most credible sources to expose the reality of these coverups.
In an interview with George Noory, Pope reveals what many have known or suspected all along: The U.S. Government, among others, has a decades-long file filled with inexplicable UFO events. One of the major questions, however, is what has changed over the years that has prompted the U.S. military and government to publicly admit to these run-ins with these ostensibly extraterrestrial crafts.
Since his first days on the job in England’s Defense Department, Pope’s access to secret information pulled him deeper and deeper into what had once been unthinkable—that British military pilots witnessed UFOs, tracking them on radar, and chasing them. Now, at long last, the subject has come out of the fringe and into the mainstream, Pope says.
One of the most confounding cases Pope says he was exposed to was an event in England that rivaled the Roswell incident. The incident occurred at Rendlesham Forest in 1980, located in the county of Suffolk, about eight miles east of the town of Ipswich. The forest was a popular attraction for walkers, cyclists, and campers.
But in December of that year, an unidentified flying object was tracked by the military and investigated on-site, where it landed in the woods. After the incident, Pope said, “I’ve gone on record saying Rendlesham might be the turning point in history that leads to the explanation of the UFO phenomenon.” The official British response, predictably, was to say that nothing really happened.
The credibility of the witnesses involved in the Rendlesham incident is too good to refute and include trained the United States Air Force observers and security police. The event happened between RAF (Royal Air Force) Bentwaters station (80 miles northeast of London) and the RAF base at Woodbridge. At the time, both British air force bases were being leased to the United States Air Force, which is why U.S. military personnel were involved in the discovery of the Rendlesham UFO.
According to the U.S. Air Force security patrolmen, on the night of the incident, the object they found in the woods was “metallic in appearance and triangular in shape, approximately 2-3 meters across the base… it illuminated the entire forest with a white light, and had a pulsing red light on top and a bank(s) of blue lights underneath.”
Pope told Noory that Rendlesham Forest was left with physical-trace evidence, radioactivity levels that were significantly higher than the average background. Twenty-two years later, in November 2002, British MoD released the “Rendlesham File” to confirm the incident. The report was printed word-for-word in the New York Times and elsewhere around the world.
Pope reveals he has spoken to a number of British pilots who have had similar encounters as American pilots. He says there is old gun-camera footage from the 50s and 60s, but that we lacked the modern technology that now makes confirmation easier and clearer, and that is now regularly used by the U.S. Navy.
Pope said, “I heard a lot of pilots say this [new Navy footage] ‘is a vindication of everything that I saw and talked about… and people maybe laughed at me, but they aren’t laughing anymore.’”
Pope surmises that visitations to earth by extraterrestrials may be linked to anthropological reasons more than anything else, including gold and other natural resources. Simply, he said, aliens want to know what we are up to. They are more interested in societies, political structures, religions, our philosophical beliefs, and all sorts of abstract concepts, including art, literature, poetry, and architecture.
An extraordinary development coming this year is The Intelligence Authorization Act for 2021 which includes a section on unidentified aerial phenomena and recognizes UFO incursions around Naval aircraft carriers, missile silos, military bases.
Here, in part, is what the Intelligence Authorization Act states:
The Committee supports the efforts of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force at the Office of Naval Intelligence to standardize collection and reporting on unidentified aerial phenomenon, any links they have to adversarial foreign governments, and the threat they pose to U.S. military assets and installations. However, the Committee remains concerned that there is no unified, comprehensive process within the Federal Government for collecting and analyzing intelligence on unidentified aerial phenomena, despite the potential threat. The Committee understands that the relevant intelligence may be sensitive; nevertheless, the Committee finds that the information sharing and coordination across the Intelligence Community has been inconsistent, and this issue has lacked attention from senior leaders.
Pope thinks the movement toward government exposure and disclosure is a vindication for the UFO community. Still, he says, the UFO subject is cleverly being “wrapped up in the threat narrative,” and there are a couple of reasons for this. Firstly, he says, you might be criticized for being interested in UFOs, but won’t be criticized for being concerned about national security issues. Secondly, there’s a matter of resources — if you talk about a threat to the defense of the U.S., people want to deal with it and allocate more money toward the cause.
While Noory suggests UFO disclosure maybe some sort of ruse, Pope says he thinks otherwise. We know the capability, but not the intent, of whoever is piloting these UFOs, he argues. However, what we have now, that we’ve never had before, is data from satellite imagery, signature intelligence, artificial intelligence, and other technologies. This is the most exciting time in the 70 years of this modern mystery, Pope says.
UFOS: The Evidence No One Is Talking About
UFOs… whether you’re a believer or a skeptic, there is actually a mounting body of evidence regarding the UFO phenomenon that can no longer be ignored. If you look past all of the alien horror films, the fake blurry UFO videos, and the Ancient Aliens memes, you’d be surprised at how many former high ranking government officials, scientists, and military contractors believe that UFOs should be taken more seriously.
Former Canadian Minister of National Defense, Paul Hellyer, believes we’re already being visited: “At least four alien species have been visiting Earth for thousands of years.” In 2016, Hillary Clinton stated on Jimmy Kimmel that she would search for more UFO files if elected. Hillary’s former campaign manager and former Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton and Obama, John Podesta, has repeatedly said he believes the UFO phenomenon is something very serious and worth investigating. Before Podesta left his position at the White House, he tweeted, “Finally, my biggest failure of 2014: Once again not securing the #disclosure of the UFO files. #thetruthisoutthere”
10-year-NASA contractor, Rob Bigelow, who develops space habitat pods, gave this shocking statement during a 60 Minutes interview: “There has been and is an existing presence, an E.T. presence. And I spent millions and millions and millions – I probably spent more as an individual than anybody else in the United States has ever spent on this subject.” Those millions of dollars Bigelow spent was authorized by the Pentagon’s top secret UFO research program called the Aerial Threat Identification Program. Rob Bigelow was the sole contractor.
Bigelow continued to explain that you don’t have to go anywhere to find ET life because it’s right underneath our noses. He also said he’s had his own close encounter with an ET. He declined to go into further details. In The New York Times article “Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program” they mentioned Bigelow even has recovered UFO debris and metal alloys stored in one of his facilities in Las Vegas. They stated, “researchers also studied people who said they had experienced physical effects from encounters with the objects and examined them for any physiological changes.”
When former Nevada senator and co-founder of the UFO research program, Harry Reid, was interviewed about the debris on CBS 8 Las Vegas, he said he knew nothing about it. However, he was glad that they declassified the program because “now we have scientific evidence.” What scientific evidence is Reid referring to? Whatever the case may be, the Pentagon spent nearly $110 million dollars on the program, proving our government takes UFOs seriously.
The last time the government publically had this level of interest in UFOs was in the 1950’s when UFO sightings were all the craze and were being investigated by the U.S. Air Force under Project Blue Book. After 17 years of research, Blue Book ended in 1968 when the Air Force concluded that most of UFO sightings could be debunked as Venus, satellites, birds, and swamp gas. But here’s what most people don’t know. In 1993, declassified documents from 1952 revealed that the CIA’s Psychological Strategy Board made it a mandate to purposefully debunk all UFO reports for national security concerns. They concluded that when it came to the subject of UFOs, the American people were dangerously gullible and prone to, “hysterical mass behavior.” They feared the Soviets would use UFOs as a distraction to overload intelligence channels and then carry out a genuine attack on American soil.
These documents also revealed that the CIA planned on partnering with the mass media, Hollywood, business clubs, and even the Disney Corporation to discredit all UFO research. How effective they were at implementing that plan is unknown. However, the CIA was successful at debunking UFOs using Project Blue Book.
After reviewing 6 years of data in only 12 hours (just 1% of all the research), the CIA made a hasty conclusion that most of the UFO reports could be explained and that further investigation was not worth the effort. The CIA then ordered the Air Force to stop talking about UFOs and begin a debunking campaign to lessen public interest.
U.S. Congressional hearings in the 1960’s later revealed that Project Blue Book was completely incompetent. Personnel were using improper scientific methods, they were completely understaffed, and were horribly trained. Scientific advisor to Project Blue Book, J. Allen Hynek, an initial skeptic of UFOs, later admitted the Air Force were improperly labeling UFO sightings as explained, despite the absence of any substantial evidence. After Blue Book, Hynek became a ufologist and said that the UFO phenomenon deserved serious scientific examination.
Regardless of the backlash, the CIA and Air Force’s debunking campaigns still worked. UFO research became taboo, people became disillusioned, and the media covered UFOs less and less. The influence of these disinformation campaigns have even discouraged government officials from speaking out. The former governor of Phoenix, Arizona, Fife Symington, during the 1997 Phoenix Lights event is a perfect example.
The Phoenix Lights were witnessed by 20,000 people or more. Shortly after the sighting, the governor made a huge joke about the event during a national press conference. He had a handcuffed man in an alien costume enter the room and said people are taking all of this too seriously. The explanation given at the time was that the lights were flare exercises conducted by the Air Force. However, in 2011, the governor later came forward in the documentary “Secret Access: UFOs on the Record” and confessed that he saw the lights right above him near his house. On CNN he said, “it was probably some form of an alien spacecraft.” Symington explained at the time he was driven to give an explanation instead of just saying “I don’t know” and admitting to complete vulnerability. He continued to say public officials need to be more open and more courageous in dealing with issues like this and that it’s time to square up and do the right thing. The Air Force’s flare explanation was later debunked because they conducted their exercise at 10pm. Thousands of people were reporting the lights as early as 8:30pm.
The UFO ridicule factor, created by the CIA, has succeeded in deterring citizens and public officials from the public discussion of UFOs. However, in the last two decades, more than 500 former government officials, scientists, and contractors have come forward about their concerns over the phenomenon. Hundreds of declassified and leaked UFO documents can be found online, thanks to FOIA requests and tireless researchers. Hopefully more people will learn the truth on the government suppression of UFO research and begin to study the UFO phenomenon with proper scientific methods and an open mind.
