Nick Pope, a high-ranking official in Britain's Ministry of Defense for eleven years, was assigned from 1991 to 1994 to Secretariat (Air Staff) Department 2A - better known to insiders as "The UFO Desk." His job was to investigate and analyze claims of UFO sightings and to assess their threat to national security. In Open Skies, Closed Minds, Pope tells his story as the investigator for the government on paranormal activity and how his experiences there changed his life. He started out as a skeptic, and quickly became a believer... Pope reveals for the first time in this book the contents of the Governments "X-Files" residing in the deepest vaults of the Ministry of Defense. While there, he discovered that truth is much stranger than fiction and that indeed something bizarre is going on, something beyond human experience and something potentially hostile. He presents convincing arguments in support of the existence of UFO's by using cases that he has researched in an official capacity, and warns that extraterrestrial spacecraft are visiting Earth despite our skepticism.