Nick Redfern

Nicholas Redfern is a British author and ufologist born in 1964 who has become a prominent figure in UFO research and government disclosure advocacy. Since developing an interest in UFOs in 1978, he has dedicated his career to investigating unidentified flying objects, cryptozoology, and conspiracy theories, establishing himself as an active proponent of official government disclosure of classified UFO information.

Redfern's most significant contribution to UFO research has been his extensive work uncovering thousands of pages of previously classified documents from British government agencies including the Royal Air Force, Air Ministry, and Ministry of Defence, materials that were dated from World War II onwards and held in the Public Record Office. This archival work laid the foundation for much of his published research. Between 1996 and 2000, he signed a substantial three-book publishing deal with Simon & Schuster, producing 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), works that were distributed across multiple countries and established him as a best-selling author.

Among his notable contributions to UFO discourse is Body Snatchers in the Desert (2005), which reexamined the famous Roswell incident by proposing an alternative explanation involving secret military testing rather than extraterrestrial origins. Redfern has continued to expand his research into related areas, including NASA's role in UFO incidents and the intersection of occultism with UFO phenomena, as documented in Final Events (2010). Currently, he works as a feature writer and contributing editor for Phenomena magazine, maintaining his active role in contemporary UFO research and advocacy.