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From: Matthew Williams <truthseekers@btinternet.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 00:29:40 -0000
Fwd Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 00:02:56 -0500
Subject: Release From Nick Redfern


Dear UFO UpDates,

I attach a text by Nick Redfern, UK UFO author which he asked me
to specifically send you. Any quiereies and i can pass them on.
He wanted you to have this release as it counters some
statements which have recently been put out by UFO author Nick
Pope... former SEC AS2 at the MOD London. Nick asks that the
text be reproduced unchanged.

Thank you

Matthew Williams

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The following is a release by UFO author Nick Redfern. No
copyright exists on this text. for free distribution.

Author may be contacted via his publishers or with small emails
via this address...

Release as follows:

From Nick Redfern.


Well as a result of my 2 December 1998 press releases, Nick Pope
decided to write a reply (of sorts) in his column for the
January 1999 issue of Georgina Bruni's Internet magazine, Hot
Gossip. Pope misled readers of HG into believing that it was the
official admission that more than 200 MOD originated UFO files
were still closed to the public that led me to conclude he was
'kept in the dark' during his term with the Secretariat of the
Air Staff.

However, as Fox... er, sorry, Pope knows full well, my comments
surrounding the allegations of a cover-up of UFO data by the MOD
were not made in response to the sheer volume of records that
were admitted to being on file (all of which, by the way
originate from within the office of Sec (AS) 2a and its
predecessors). Rather, my comments were made in response to the
brief (and, I suspect, grudging) admittance that other MOD
'divisions and establishments' beyond the quaint little office
that Pope worked in, also held 'some [UFO] files', but that
these files could neither be identified or released.

If, as Pope and the MOD repeatedly love to tell us, Sec (AS) 2a
was the focal point for all UFO studies, why should certain
files be held by other divisions and establishments? Moreover, I
find it highly suspicious that the MOD can, with such apparent
ease, identify all the files, which originated with Pope and Co.
but cannot (for 'lack of funds') either identify, describe or
release any of the UFO material held by the additional
'divisions or establishments'.

This lame 'lack of funds' explanation is simply not good enough
and is, I believe, the MODs way of stifling public and
Parliamentary interest in, and awareness of, what goes on behind
the scenes of the Air Staff.

On a related matter, in the same column for Hot Gossip, Pope
addressed the issue of RAF Rudloe Manor and the allegations
concerning whether or not covert UFO investigations are or were
undertaken from the base.

Pope maintains that the answer is 'no'. However, the real
picture is much murkier than that - as Pope himself well knows,
but for reason best known to himself hasn't seen fit to discuss.

First, when I conducted a tape-recorded interview with Pope in
1994, I brought up the allegations surrounding Rudloe and UFOs
and asked him to comment. Without hesitation, he told me that
all of the accounts concerning Rudloe were myths and 'self -
fulfilling prophecies' and that, to his knowledge Rudloe had no
role whatsoever in the UFO subject.

Second, one of Pope's predecessors in the Air Staff (Clive
Neville) told me in 1989 that the only time that Rudloe would
become involved in the UFO subject would be if a member of the
public filed a report with the base and from there their report
would be sent to his office. And Neville was careful to point
out that this wasn't limited to Rudloe - any airbase around the
country would fulfil the same task.

In view of the above, it was therefore most puzzling when in
1995 a statement was issued by Ruldoe and the MOD maintaining
that until 1992 the base had acted as the RAF's 'UFO
co-ordination point'.

It should be noted that there has been some debate surrounding
the wording of this statement; however in 1996, staff at Rudloe
confirmed to me that the base was not just one of many
co-ordination points dotted around the country, but was in fact
the one and only official co-ordination point for UFO reports
for the entire British Royal Air Force!! Moreover, it was
admitted to me that it was entirely possible that this role had
been fulfilled as far back as in the 1950s!

To this date, Pope has not been able to explain satisfactorily
why he did not know that Rudloe (and staff at Provost and
Security Services' previous location at Government Buildings,
Acton) fulfilled such a function on behalf of the Royal Air
Force for what may have been 40 years!

Clive Neville statement suggests that he did not know; and as
Timothy Good revealed in Above Top Secret, MOD man Ralph Noyes
was also unaware of the Rudloe-UFO connection. And while we are
on the subject of Nick Pope's Hot Gossip column, it is
interesting that he brings up again the matter of 'Flying
Triangle' sightings of early 1993.

In February 1999 issue of the news-stand magazine, Focus, Pope
discussed he 1993 encounters and the fact that he wrote up a
report at the time that was forwarded to his superiors. Pope
publicly admits his belief that the incidents constituted a
potential threat to the defence of UK. However when I
interviewed him in 1994, what did he tell me when I asked him
whether UFOs constituted a threat to the realm? 'There's no
evidence of a threat to the UK that I've come across.'

It cannot be argued that Pope reached his conclusion that UFOs
are of defence significance after my interview with him in 1994,
because in his book, 'Open Skies, Closed Minds', Pope states:
"The 30-31 March [1993] sightings brought about a marked change
in my own attitude. I would play no further part in bland
platitudes about UFOs being 'of no defence significance'. Except
when speaking to UFO investigators in 1994, it would seem...