UFO expert Nick Pope has criticised the US and UK Governments, suggesting they have not been forthcoming with information on the topic.
Pope joined Patrick Christys on GBN America to discuss the apparent secrecy on the matter which he says is rife at the centre of Western governments.
“Both the UK and the US is consistency for decades in that governments have not told the people everything that they know about UFOs”, he said.
“That’s not to say they’re sitting on proof on an extraterrestrial presence, but at the very least, a lot of the work that governments have done has been hidden from public scrutiny.
Nick Pope says Governments have not been forthcoming with information
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“The House Oversight Committee had a classified briefing on this, some of the lawmakers came forward and said ‘the issue isn’t necessarily little, green men, it’s the government has spent millions of dollars on UFO research and we don’t know what they’re doing and where that money has gone’.”
The Ministry of Defence’s former UFO chief told Patrick Christys that a UFO “hotspot” has come to be notorious among fellow spotters.
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Pope explained: "It's an interesting point because all too often when we talk about UFOs and extraterrestrials, we have a very sort of UK, US-centric view of this.
"But this is a global phenomenon and a lot is going on in South America, particularly in the jungles of Brazil over the years.
"There have been some bizarre stories coming out and we know one thing that did emerge fairly recently is the fact that the US government is looking at a tip and their their UAP task force was certainly at the tracking and aware of what was going on in Brazil.
"I'd like to see more of a spotlight shone on some of these South American sightings for sure."
It comes month after the Pentagon launched an online reporting tool for certain encounters with UFOs.
The government said it is aiming to be more transparent with its exploration of the unknown.
An option for the public to submit reports is coming soon, according to officials, in a move that appears to signal the government is moving closer to its promise of complete openness.
The new form, Aaro says on its website, “is intended as an initial point of contact … it is not intended for conveying potentially sensitive or classified information”.
Conspiracy theories about the level of government knowledge of UFO research have circulated for decades.
Many have speculated about a secret government facility holding alien spacecraft and lifeforms at Area 51 in the Mojave desert.