Government1991

Nick Pope takes over the Ministry of Defence UFO desk

Name: Nick Pope takes over the Ministry of Defence UFO desk
Start: 1991
Location: London, England

When: 1991
Where: London, England
Sources: 1 public source

Nick Pope, who ran the Ministry of Defence UFO desk from 1991 David Howard, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

By his own account, civil servant Nick Pope was given a Ministry of Defence desk handling unexplained cases in 1991, during a 21-year MoD career. He later became a public commentator on the subject.

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