UFOs: The Lost Evidence

Interesting series, however, emphasis must be made on contributors expertise, position. Nick Pope was the lowest civil service grade manager in the UK Ministry of Defence. For 2-3 years he ran the so called UFO Desk with a junior clerk. The role entailing the receipt of letters etc from members of the public in the UK, who had reported unidentified sightings in British skies. The Desk did basic investigations & any unexplained sightings would likely be referred upwards.

Mr. Pope is/was portrayed in various UFO documentaries such as Ancient Aliens, et al, that he is either a former Director in the (UK) Ministry of Defence (MoD), Defence Expert, Analyst etc. Most of what Mr. Pope comments on is or was already 'open source' and known by other UFO researchers, or interested members of the public. The fact that he worked for the MoD allowed Mr Pope authenticity to realise the subject can be exploited and a second career as a UFO pundit could be created especially in the U.S.A.

The UFO Desk was subsequently closed as resources were required else where.

I like this series and this episode was very good. Just one point of contention. You mentioned that President Truman took time DURING HIS BUSY SCHEDULE for a briefing on UFOs ONCE EVERY THREE MONTHS....AND THAT WAS SIGNIFICANT. Once every three months?? Significant?? Because he had a busy schedule??? GIVE ME A BREAK. How could once every three months be significant just because he had a busy schedule. I'm sure he had to take time to go to the bathroom a lot more than once every three months during his busy schedule.

I'm really impressed with the fact that the producers have gone back and reworked information from older sightings. Hearing from the original people involved gives these events added credibility. The Rendlesham forest incident as told by the former deputy base commander of that NATO base lent a LOT of credibility to that event. The producers seem to have taken care to add additional info to these events.

Nice to see some questions being presented with different and far more believable answers than current theories. At the end of the day, we don't really know what happened in the past, but the ancient astronaut theories seem the most probable. Watch with an open mind and ignore the skeptics whose reviews seem so angry and malicious.

While there are a few nifty pieces presented here and there, much of this series is about UFO conspiracy theorists jumping to conclusions.

A possible submarine off the coast of Sweden? Extra-terresttrials! The Russians deny it was them? Aliens from another planet! (I mean, why would the Russians possibly deny having a submarine in NATO waters?)

The guy from theblackvault is probably the only level headed one. That Dolan guy is a bit of a hot-headed nut who will attack if his "everything is an alien" belief is challenged.

It's these types of people that set back the whole "what are UFOs?" question back to the crazy ages.