Pope,N. Open Skies, Closed Minds. 1999
Pope, Nick. Open Skies, Closed Minds: For the First Time a Government
UFO Expert Speaks Out. Woodstock NY: Overlook Press, 1999. 270 pages.
Nick Pope was in charge of the "UFO desk" in Britain's Ministry of
Defense from 1991 to 1994. His job was to interface with the public on UFO
sightings, collect and analyze evidence, and assess any potential threat to
national security. This book is not sensational by the standards of other
UFO books, but instead is objective and cautious. The bottom line is that
Pope believes that many reported observations are best explained as being
of extraterrestrial origin.
Pope was apparently not privy to much information that was not also
available publicly, and there is nothing in this book that can be considered
new. The jacket says this book remained on the Sunday Times top ten list for
over ten weeks, and the blurb from the Sunday Times on the back says that
it's "the first book on UFOs from someone with inside knowledge and access
to Top Secret material. The Ministry of Defense tried to stop this book."
Sounds like hype to us, but perhaps something was deleted between its
publication in Britain in 1998 and the edition we have. Even without any
smoking guns, this book is a well-written, reasonable overview of the
history and extent of the public's experiences, exposure, and knowledge
of UFO phenomena, from strange lights and crop circles, to missing time
and abductions.
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