Nick Pope (March 1965 – April 2026) died of cancer aged 60 — Britain’s most prominent public figure in UAP research, and a genuine government insider. He joined the Ministry of Defence in 1985 and ran the official UK UFO Desk from 1991 to 1994 (Secretariat Air Staff 2A). Pope’s posthumous significance: several revelations he made publicly only later in his career have not been widely synthesized: (1) PRINCE PHILIP: Pope revealed that Prince Philip was “very much at the forefront of Royal interest” in UAPs — but this had to be kept private “because it was counter to the government’s public position.” A member of the Royal Family was privately interested in UAP while the government publicly deflected. This has never been formally addressed. (2) RAF PILOTS: Pope privately fostered relations with BUFORA (British UFO Research Association) and separately interviewed RAF pilots who had NOT reported their UAP encounters to official channels — “for fear of ridicule.” The British military’s trained aviators were self-censoring UAP encounters, meaning the DI55 data was significantly underrepresenting actual military sightings. (3) DIVERSION: Pope wrote: “There were times when I was quite deliberately given one-off tasks to divert me from a UFO case.” He was never “actively blocked” but was systematically redirected when getting close to sensitive cases. (4) RENDLESHAM: “The file on the Rendlesham Forest incident still keeps me up at night” — his final public statement about which case troubled him most. Pope died before the April 27, 2026 congressional deadline that the UAP investigation he spent his career pursuing was heading toward.