Nick Redfern

Nicholas Redfern
Born 1964 (age 51–52)
Pelsall, Walsall
Occupation Journalist
Ufologist, Cryptozoologist

Nicholas "Nick" Redfern, born 1964 in Pelsall, Walsall, Staffordshire, is a British best-selling author, Ufologist and Cryptozoologist now living in Dallas, Texas, United States.[1][2]

Redfern is an active advocate of official government disclosure of UFO information, and has worked to uncover thousands of pages of previously classified Royal Air Force, Air Ministry and Ministry of Defence files on unidentified flying objects (UFOs) dating from the Second World War from the Public Record Office and currently works as a feature writer and contributing editor for Phenomena magazine.[1][3][4][5][6]

His 2005 book, Body Snatchers in the Desert: The Horrible Truth at the Heart of the Roswell Story, purports to show that the Roswell crash may have been military aircraft tests using Japanese POWs, suffering from progeria or radiation effects.[7]

Biography

Redfern attended Pelsall Comprehensive School in Pelsall from 1976 to 1981. He also worked at Dixons paint suppliers with another Ufologist Martin Lenton.

Redfern joined a rock music and fashion magazine Zero in 1981, where he trained in journalism, writing, magazine production and photography, later going on write freelance articles on UFOs during the mid-1980s.

From 1984 until 2001 he worked as a freelance feature writer for the Daily Express, People, Western Daily Press and Express & Star newspapers, as well as a full-time feature writer for Planet on Sunday. Between 1996 and 2001 he worked as a freelance journalist for the British newsstand magazines The Weekender, Animals, Animals, Animals, Pet Reptile, Military Illustrated, Eye-Spy, The Unopened Files and The X-Factor.[8]

Between 1996 and 2000 Redfern signed a three-book publishing deal with Simon & Schuster of London for the publication of A Covert Agenda: The British Government’s UFO Top Secrets Exposed (1997), The FBI Files: The FBI’s UFO Top Secrets Exposed (1998) and Cosmic Crashes: The Incredible Story of the UFOs That Fell to Earth (1999). These books were published in the United Kingdom, Canada, Russia, Poland, Australia, New Zealand and Portugal.

In 2003 Paraview-Pocket Books New York published Nick Redfern’s book Strange Secrets: Real Government Files on the Unknown in May of that year. And, in March 2004 Paraview-Pocket Books, New York, publish his book Three Men Seeking Monsters: Six Weeks in Pursuit of Werewolves, Lake Monsters, Giant Cats, Ghostly Devil Dogs, and Ape-Men. This book tells the story of his relationship with Jonathan Downes and Richard Freeman of the Centre for Fortean Zoology, and has been optioned by Universal Studios.[9] Redfern has run the U.S. branch of the Centre for Fortean Zoology since 2002.[4] In 2007 Universal Studios bought the rights to this book in the hopes of making a film from it.[10][11]

Redfern works on the lecture circuit, both in the UK and overseas, and has appeared in internationally syndicated shows discussing the UFO phenomenon.[3] Redfern is a regular on the History Channel programs Monster Quest and UFO Hunters, National Geographic Channels's Paranormal and the Syfy channel's Proof Positive, as well as appearing in an episode in the third season of Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, titled "Ghost Busters".[4][12][13] He has also appeared on a variety of television programmes in the United Kingdom, including The Big Breakfast, Channel 5 News, and GMTV.

He has been identified as a member of an informal group of friends often called others as the "Paranormal Rat Pack" and "The Cabal"; other members are filmmaker Paul Kimball, and authors Greg Bishop, and the late Mac Tonnies.[14][15]

In 2012 Redfern took on the role of on-air radio talk-show host of a paranormal themed internet radio show Epic Voyages Radio produced by the Inception Radio Network.[16][17]

Bibliography

In a 2002 interview, Redfern stated that "Andy Roberts and I have a book coming out next year on an alleged UFO crash incident in Wales in 1974."[19] This relates to the Berwyn Mountain UFO incident.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Pg.20 (10 August 2000). "There's more to what's seen in the sky than first meets the eye!". Express & Echo.
  2. ↑ Roger Tavener (15 June 2001). "The X-Files; Jetliners' 30 near misses with UFOs". Western Daily Press.
  3. 1 2 Recreation, Pg.5 (21 August 1998). "Expert insight into UFOs". Gloucestershire Echo.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Author Nick Redfern seeks to twist NASA missions to moon, Mars; unravels UFO files". International Business Times News. 26 November 2010. External link in |publisher= (help);
  5. ↑ "The Weird and the Wonderful: New Yorkers take yoga to the dogs". The Nation. 8 June 2003.
  6. ↑ Peter Allen (27 July 1998). "Revealed - secrets of Britain's Men in Black". The Daily Mail.
  7. ↑ "Ancient of Days Conference, The Disclosure Debate, Roswell NM". YouTube. 2011. Retrieved 2014-02-11.
  8. 1 2 Dave Itzkoff (9 September 2007). "Pop Culture Chronicle". The New York Times.
  9. ↑ Universal on trail of "Monsters" with trio
  10. ↑ Michael Fleming (8 March 2007). "'U' on a hunt for 'Monsters'". Daily Variety.
  11. ↑ Borys Kit (8 March 2007). "Universal treks with 'Monsters'". The Hollywood Reporter.
  12. ↑ http://www.coasttocoastam.com/guests/691.html
  13. ↑ http://www.tv.com/penn-and-teller-bullsh!/ghost-busters/episode/424637/summary.html
  14. ↑ Sobin, Dia (2011). "On The Trail of the Paranormal Rat Pack". Post-Mac Blues. Retrieved 2013-08-27.
  15. ↑ Greg Bishop
  16. ↑ EPIC Voyages Radio
  17. ↑ Inception Radio Network
  18. ↑ Jason Lamport (22 October 1999). "How Alien's My Valley?; Farmer Claims He Saw UFO". The Mirror.
  19. ↑ Strange Secrets: An Interview With Author Nick Redfern

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