No, that’s the thing that so many people in ufology dont realize - that the British Ministry of Defence has *never* had a UFO project like the US Projects Sign, Grudge, and Blue Book.

It was just a case of MoD civil servants looking at UFO reports that largely were sent in by mail from the general public.

And for the most part, none of the staff at that office ever left the office to investigate cases.

In other words, there was nothing like going out to locations, getting photos, interviewing witnesses in person, etc.

Now that’s something worth mentioning, since most people (including me!) would have the impression that he investigated UFOs on a 24/7 basis.

Around 1998 I interviewed Nick Pope about his investigation of a “Flying Triangle” style report that he had investigated in 1993.

He told me he approached Belgian authorities to get their opinions, as the Belgians had experienced a wave of Triangle events in 1989 and 1990.

He also told me an approach was made to US authorities who claimed no knowledge of the FT in terms of them being classified aircraft. But Nick P did say to me that the Americans kind of turned the question around and asked their own questions about the FTS - as a result of their own reports on US soil!

So he did liaise with people in overseas governments, at least. But that’s about the extent of my knowledge on his liaison with overseas nations.

I think he got the job basically because they tend to rotate people in and out of the various Secretariat offices to give them experience, and that was Nick’s office. i would stress that the UFO work only amounted to about 15 per cent of his weekly work.

It wasn’t a “UFO Office” as such. It was an office of the MoD that happened to spend a small amount of time looking at UFO reports in addition to its standard defence work.

Ok, so Pope thinks the British MoD doesn’t have any “smoking gun” hiding in some hangar. But what does he think about OTHER government, the americans or the russians for example? Does he think the yanks know more than what they tell us?

Was he in contact with people from other governments during his years of UFO analysis? Personnel or officials from USAF bases located in english territory perhaps?

And, BTW, why did he arrive to that particular job in the first place? Was that some kind of reward, or a sentence? Because from what I understand, he didn’t seem too thrill in the beginning about reviewing files about flying discs and little green men, Was that a stepping up or a sliding down in his career inside the MoD?