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Nick Pope (born 19 September 1965) is a freelance British journalist and media commentator.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nick Pope - journalisted.com )〕 He was an employee at the British Government's Ministry of Defence (MoD) from 1985 to 2006 and is best known for a project he worked on for the British Government from 1991 to 1994 which involved investigating reports of UFO sightings to determine their defence significance.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 18 Apr 2006 (pt 154) )〕 He moved to the United States in January 2012.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Latest News )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Biography )〕 ==Ministry of Defence== Pope joined the Ministry of Defence in 1985. After serving in a number of different posts, he was assigned in 1991 to a section of Secretariat (Air Staff) known as Sec (AS) 2a, where his duties included investigating reports of UFO sightings, to see if they had any defence significance. At the time, while the Ministry of Defence stated that it "remains totally open-minded about the existence or otherwise of extraterrestrial lifeforms", it also stated that there was no evidence to suggest that any UFO sightings posed any threat to the UK or that they were extraterrestrial in origin.〔(Ministry of Defence policy statement on UFOs )〕 It is clear from material that Pope wrote whilst still at the MoD that he did not share the MoD's view that conventional explanations could be found for all UFO sightings.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Defence )〕 Pope's final posting in the MoD was to the Directorate of Defence Security. He resigned in 2006 and in 2009 MoD announced that UFO sightings would no longer be investigated.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ministry of Defence - Freedom of Information - Publication Scheme - Search Publication Scheme - How to report a UFO sighting )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=MoD department that investigated UFO sightings ‘closed’ )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=How not to report a UFO )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nick Pope (journalist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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