Nick Redfern

Nicholas Redfern
Born	1964 (age 46–47) Pelsall, Walsall
Occupation	Journalist Ufologist, Cryptozoologist

Nicholas "Nick" Redfern born 1964 in Pelsall, Walsall, Staffordshire is a British best-selling author, Ufologist and Cryptozoologist now living in Dallas, Texas, U.S..^[1][2]

Redfern 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.^{[3][4][1][5][6]}

Biography

Redfern attended Pelsall Comprehensive School in Pelsall from 1976 to 1981. He also worked at Dixons paint suppliers with another ufologist Martin Lenton

Redfern joined a rock music and fashion magazine Zero in 1981; where he trained in 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.^[7]

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 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.^[8] Redfern has run the U.S branch of the CFZ since 2002.^[4]

Redfern has appeared on a variety of television programmes in the UK, including The Big Breakfast; Channel 5 News; and GMTV and works on the lecture circuit,^[3] both in the UK and overseas, and has appeared in internationally syndicated shows discussing the UFO phenomenon. He also appeared on a show in the 3rd season of Penn & Teller: Bullshit! entitled "Ghost Busters."^[9][10] He is also a regular on the History Channel programs Monster Quest and UFO Hunters as well as National Geographic's Paranormal and the SyFY channel's Proof Positive.^[4]

In 2007 Universal Studios bought the rights to Redfern's book: "Three Men Seeking Monsters: Six Weeks in Pursuit of Werewolves, Lake Monster, Giant Cats, Ghostly Devil Dogs and Ape-Men" in the hopes of making a movie from it.^[11][12]

Bibliography

• Cosmic Crashes by Nick Redfern - ISBN 0-671-03306-9^[13]
• A Covert Agenda: The British Government's UFO Top Secrets Exposed by Nick Redfern - ISBN 1-931044-70-8
• Strange Secrets by Nick Redfern and Andy J. Roberts - ISBN 0-7434-6976-3
• Body Snatchers in the Desert: The Horrible Truth at the Heart of the Roswell Story by Nick Redfern - ISBN 0-7434-9753-8
• The F.B.I. Files by Nick Redfern - ISBN 0-684-86834-2^[14]
• Three Men Seeking Monsters by Nick Redfern - ISBN 0-7434-8254-9
• On The Trail Of The Saucer Spies by Nick Redfern - ISBN 1-933665-10-6
• Celebrity Secrets: Official Government Files on the Rich and Famous by Nick Redfern - ISBN 1-4165-2866-0^[7]
• Man-Monkey - In Search of the British Bigfoot by Nick Redfern - ISBN 1-9057-2316-4
• Memoirs of a Monster Hunter: A Five-Year Journey in Search of the Unknown by Nick Redfern - ISBN 1-5641-4976-5
• The NASA Conspiracies by Nick Redfern - ISBN 1601631499^[4]
• Policing the UFO by Nick Redfern and Irene Botts ^[15]

In an interview with Nick Redfern,^[16] 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.

See also

• Rendlesham Forest Incident

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Pg.20 (August 10, 2000). "There's more to what's seen in the sky than first meets the eye!". Express & Echo. 
2. ^ Roger Tavener (June 15, 2001). "The X-Files; Jetliners' 30 near misses with UFOs". Western Daily Press. 
3. ^ ^{a b} Recreation, Pg.5 (August 21, 1998). "Expert insight into UFOs". Gloucestershire Echo. 
4. ^ ^{a b c d} "Author Nick Redfern seeks to twist NASA missions to moon, Mars; unravels UFO files". International Business Times News. November 26, 2010. 
5. ^ "THE WEIRD AND THE WONDERFUL: New Yorkers take yoga to the dogs". The Nation. June 8, 2003. 
6. ^ Peter Allen (July 27, 1998). "Revealed - secrets of Britain's Men in Black". The Daily Mail. 
7. ^ ^{a b} Dave Itzkoff (September 9, 2007). "Pop Culture Chronicle". The New York Times. 
8. ^ Universal on trail of "Monsters" with trio
9. ^ http://www.coasttocoastam.com/guests/691.html
10. ^ http://www.tv.com/penn-and-teller-bullsh!/ghost-busters/episode/424637/summary.html
11. ^ MICHAEL FLEMING (March 8, 2007). "'U' on a hunt for 'Monsters'". Daily Variety. 
12. ^ Borys Kit (March 8, 2007). "Universal treks with 'Monsters'". The Hollywood Reporter. 
13. ^ Jason Lamport (October 22, 1999). "HOW ALIEN'S MY VALLEY?; FARMER CLAIMS HE SAW UFO". The Mirror. 
14. ^ Groups / organisations, Pg.11 (May 14, 1998). "Author to spill the beans on UFO secrets". The Sentinel. 
15. ^ Mark Cowan (December 26, 1998). "EX-COPS TELL OF UFO SIGHTINGS". Birmingham Evening Mail. 
16. ^ Strange Secrets: An Interview With Author Nick Redfern

External links

• NickRedfern.com
• Nick Redfern's MySpace page
• UFOmystic.com, his UFO blog
• Nick Redfern's "There's Something in the Woods...", his cryptozoology blog
• Nick Redfern's Celebrity Secrets

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Date of birth	1964
Place of birth	Pelsall, Walsall
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