Thanks for sharing, Isaac
If i would be a fan of the theory that there's some ongoing disinfo campaing about UFOs, then i would indicate "the Sun" as the source # 1.
If (and i say, IF) they really take seriously what they publish about UFOs,
then there's something very wrong with some of them: but what really makes me wonder is Nick Pope's role in the game.
A good example is the so called "UFO over Cornwall":
www.thesun.co.uk...
almost everyone here (and not only here) identified it as a sea bird:
But in the article
Nick Pope, one of Britain's foremost UFO experts, said the photo was one of the best he had seen.
Nick, formerly the official Ministry of Defence UFO analyst, said: "If I was
still there I'd be looking at this very closely. The object looks
structured, symmetrical and metallic. This man has caught something very interesting indeed."
In my (and almost all others') humble opinion the object looks exactly like a bird, and doesn't look neither structured (unless we want to call
"structures" his wing) nor symmetric, nor metallic.
But that's just an example:
Here can be found a compilation of articles mentioning his verdicts:
The Sun, Nick Pope, an pics query
Seriously, i rather post a link because the list of examples would be too
long.
I honestly couldn't find anything interesting in what he stated to be
interesting (in The Sun's articles): the most "puzzling" images were amorphic spots in the sky that could litterally be anything.
Now, since he's the former UK Ministry of Defence UFO analyst, this would
explain why UK MoD has decided to close down its UFO reporting service:
if his performances were the same, then the project was an obvious waste of time, money and efforts, hence to close it has been a very wise decision:
less wise than just firing him, but wiser than persisting in wasting.
The Sun is second to no one, including ANW the unmentionable website, in
spreading nonsense in UFOlogy: they don't talk about UFO cases, they just
drop random stuff on the web to get attention.
A serious UFO case will NEVER be based upon a single evidence: and in my opinion they are aware of this, but maybe since they started publishing
articles about pseudo-ufos, they increased their sales: that would explain their persistence, but serious UFOlogy is and will be the first victim of
their behavior. Not all have the time to study image analysis or UFOlogy in deep, many people just want to know more, some of them even for their
first time: but this way, The Sun betrays both their enthusiasm and their wishes to know more. People approaching NOW UFOlogy are our ONLY resource
for the future: it is our duty NOT just to keep them away from "The Sun" but to encourage them in reading books, analisys, reports, everything that
made of UFOlogy something worthy to spend some time in.