Lee Speigel of the Huffington Post has posted an article at Huffingtonpost.com that talks about the U.K.’s release of UFO files and What the former head of the Ministry of Defense, Nick Pope, had to say about his time with the agency. Mr. Pope was the man in charge at the MoD office from 1991 to 1994. The MoD made public 9,000 pages of documents and 34 files that span from 1985 to 2007. He made it clear that as you can assume the MoD couldn’t simply say that there are UFO’s in our airspace and we can’t do anything about it. That would be the most irresponsible thing a head of the Ministry of Defense could do to be honest and there isn’t a lot of people that would say otherwise.

Nick’s most important quote in my opinion comes here:

“I’m a little bit apologetic about this because obviously, when I was in MoD, I had to play this game myself. To really achieve our policy of downplaying the UFO phenomenon, we would use a combination of ‘spin and dirty tricks.’

“We used terms like UFO buffs and UFO spotters — terms that mean these people are nut jobs. In other words, we were implying that this is just a very somewhat quaint hobby that people have as opposed to a serious research interest.”

Of course you can imagine how outraged a lot of fans of Mr. Pope may be. But, to be perfectly honest. This sounds like the exact thing we here at the Mind Cemetery have been looking for in Ufology. That thing is simple Ethics. He was forced to report on these things in a manner he was not happy with and he let us all know. He put himself out there and worked with the reporter, he didn’t twist and turn in the wind and put out a press release saying he was misquoted or some other lame excuse we hear so often these days. He did his job with the MoD while he was there and now he is out there on the right side of the fight slugging it out every day against skeptics and every government agency that would rather he just go away.

You can read the article yourself and come to your own conclusion but as far as we are concerned he just found a spot on the Mount Rushmore of Ufologists that are fighting the good fight for truth and high ethical standards in a field so clogged with frauds, phonies and doubletalk artists.

Huffington Post Nick Pope Article