Nick Redfern

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Ufologist
Biography
Name: Nicholas Redfern
Born: 1964
Pelsall, Walsall
Resume
Field: Journalist
Paranormal Area: Ufologist, Cryptozoologist

Nicholas "Nick" Redfern (born 1964 in Pelsall, Walsall, West Midlands) is a British Ufologist/Cryptozoologist now living in Dallas, Texas, U.S..

His is an active advocate of official disclosure, and has worked to uncover thousands of pages of previously-classified Royal Air Force, Air Ministry and Ministry of Defence files on 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.

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[edit] Biography

Redfern attended Pelsall Comprehensive School in Pelsall from 1976 to 1981.

He joined a rock music and fashion magazine Zero in 1981; where he trained 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 Planet on Sunday. Between 1996 and 2001 he worked as a freelance journalist for the following newsstand magazines in Britain: The Weekender, Animals, Animals, Animals, Pet Reptile, Military Illustrated, Eye-Spy, The Unopened Files and The X-Factor.

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 (2000). These books were published in the UK, 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 of 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 for a Hollywood Film. Redfern has run the U.S branch of the CFZ since 2002.

He has appeared on a wide variety of television programmes in the UK (including The Big Breakfast; Channel 5 News; and GMTV) and abroad and is in constant demand on the lecture circuit both in his home country and overseas and has appeared in internationally televised shows regarding UFO's.[1]

You can now follow Nick daily at his blog.[2]

Redfern is married to a Texan named Dana.

[edit] Criticisms

However, his investigative research has been criticised by other highly regarded UFOlogists such as Nick Pope. Pope cites Redfern's investigations into old reports without consulting skeptics and ignoring convincing natural explanations for such events.[3]

His friend and co-author, Andy J. Roberts, is another of his critics.[4] [also see 'Other Article' under the Andy J. Roberts page to cite this.]

[edit] Bibliography

Redfern authored several best-selling books on UFOs including: The FBI Files: The FBI's UFO Top Secrets Exposed; and Cosmic Crashes: The Incredible Story Of The UFOs That Fell To Earth.

According to an interview with Nick Redfern,[5] Redfern states that "Andy Roberts and I have a book coming out next year on an alleged UFO crash incident in Wales in 1974." This relates to the Berwyn Mountain Incident.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.coasttocoastam.com/guests/691.html
  2. ^ UFOmystic.com
  3. ^ http://www.magonia.demon.co.uk/ethbull/mms17.html
  4. ^ The Berwyn Mountain UFO Crash - A British Roswell? (cached)
  5. ^ Strange Secrets: An Interview With Author Nick Redfern

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