Philip Coppens
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Philip Coppens (Born Filip Coppens, January 25, 1971) is a writer who started his career as an investigative journalist, who specialized on the subject the world of politics and intelligence agencies. As a result, material uncovered on the life of President John F. Kennedy’s alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was used by a US government enquiry in 1994.[1] In 1995, he established Frontier Magazine (formerly Frontier 2000) together with Herman Hegge, a newsstand magazine in the Netherlands and Belgium. He has written in various fringe magazines, both in the UK (Fortean Times, NEXUS Magazine) and abroad (HERA, New Dawn Magazine), as well as appearances on radio and television (Belgium's Kanaal 2, Voyager (RaiDue - Italy), Swiss International Radio, Dreamland Radio, The X-Zone (Talkstar Radio), etc.). Since 1995, Frontier Sciences Foundation has grown to incorporate, amongst others, Frontier Bookshop and Frontier Publishing.
In 1999, he was the principal researcher for Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince’s The Stargate Conspiracy, which investigated current politician’s apparent obsession with ancient Egypt. He is the author of The Stone Puzzle of Rosslyn Chapel (2002), on the enigmatic Scottish chapel and its relationship with freemasonry and the Knights Templar; The Canopus Revelation (2004), on the lore of the star Canopus in ancient cultures; Land of the Gods (2007), on the Scottish Lothians region, its megaliths and its links with the story of King Arthur and Camelot; The New Pyramid Age (2007), a survey of the pyramid debate, arguing that most pyramids around the world conform to a "pyramid template".
He has edited Saunière’s Model and the Secret of Rennes-le-Château (2001), by André Douzet. Together, they have written The Secret Vault (2006), on the existence of an underground complex in Notre-Dame-de-Marceille, first discovered by Jos Bertaulet, a friend of Philip until Jos’ death in 1995.
He is the author of three Dutch-language books. One was published in 1994, on what he alleges is a megalithic civilisation of Western Europe, a synopsis of which was worked into a German 1996 publication (Sind wir allein? – Ulrich Dopatka, editor). In 2004, he wrote De Da Vinci Code Ontcijferd, a high-level introduction to the mysteries incorporated in Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, which had a Dutch and Italian translation, both published in 2005.
He lives in North Berwick.
