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   British ET Expert Says `Clock is Ticking' on `Some Big UFO Stories'   
      
   16:36 GMT 10.01.2021   
   Lilia Dergacheva   
   Sputnik International   
      
   Nick Pope, a former head of the UK govt's UFO task force, says   
   the latest stunning developments regarding the search for   
   extra-terrestrial life, including the leak of US Navy pilots' videos,   
   have led him to believe we are on the threshold of some   
   ground-breaking revelations.   
      
   British UFO expert Nick Pope is certain that the "clock is ticking" on   
   new disclosures about the phenomenon that he said could have a   
   far-reaching impact in the foreseeable future.   
      
   Mr Pope, who used to run the UK govt's now defunct UFO   
   department, cited his sources as saying that the Ministry of Defence   
   is looking into UFO sightings despite its officially-stated scepticism   
   over the matter. UFO investigations were cancelled by the MoD at the   
   end of 2009 on the grounds that they allegedly served no particular   
   defence purpose and were diverting attention from more crucial   
   operations.   
      
   "However, I understand from reliable and well-placed sources that this   
   isn't entirely correct, and that sightings are still being looked at,   
   in the margins of other defence business, with terms like `UFO' being   
   scrupulously avoided, to try to avoid creating Freedom of Information   
   Act liability", the ex-head of the UFO desk said.   
      
   Pope also noted that a task force set up by the US govt has   
   already ostensibly shared some interim conclusions with its British   
   colleagues, stressing that some of the upcoming revelations could be   
   really "seismic".   
      
   "There's a momentum building up and there's no smoke without fire. The   
   clock is now ticking on the Senate Intelligence Committee's demand for   
   a report on the UFO phenomenon from the Director of National   
   Intelligence", Pope said, claiming the UFO revelations might come in   
   due time, hand-in-hand with some other indirectly related initiatives,   
   for instance a COVID-19 relief bill.  ...   
      
   The report, he went on, however important it may be, is only a part of   
   a more complex process and "we're going to see some big UFO stories in   
   2021".   
      
   Pope also noted that due to the "globality" of the UFO phenomenon, "no   
   single nation has a monopoly on any of this", Mr Pope said.   
      
   "We know very little, for example, about what Russia and China know   
   and think about the issue, or what their policy is with regard to the   
   phenomenon. And for all we know, another nation may have a key piece   
   of the puzzle, and may suddenly and unexpectedly make a move", he   
   assumed, citing many as saying that the coordinating role with this   
   regard should be reserved for the UN as an international body.   
   ...   
      
      
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