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Nick Pope
UK Ministry of Defence civil servant (from 1985) who ran the 'UFO desk' (Secretariat Air Staff 2a) from 1991 to 1994. Later Britain's most visible UFO media commentator ('the real Fox Mulder'); co-author with Burroughs and Penniston of 'Encounter in Rendlesham Forest' (2014). He died on April 6, 2026, aged 60.
What is claimedHe called the Rendlesham radiation readings 'the most tangible proof that something extraordinary happened there' and held they were ~10x background.
Skeptical viewHis Rendlesham role began eleven years AFTER the incident (he had none in 1980, though the press often implies otherwise). The radiation claim was dismantled by the NRPB (1997), by the instrument's manufacturer ('the bottom reading on the lowest range') and by his own source (Giles Cowling, DERA), who retracted in writing in 1998.
Related: Project Blue Book · Rendlesham Forest (1980)
Sources — here nothing is invented: MoD (Reino Unido) · ianridpath.com (radiación) · Obituarios abr-2026 (History.co.uk, Spokesman-Review)