Haunted Realm Paranormal Investigators

Ghosts have certainly been seen in MoD buildings in London.  The sixth floor of Metropole Building (a former hotel requisitioned by the Ministry of Munitions in 1916) is reputedly haunted by the ghost of a chambermaid who was murdered in the hotel and whose body was hidden in a cupboard.  Even MoD Main Building is supposedly haunted.  Built on the site of the old Whitehall Palace, which dates from the 12th century, the basement still contains an old Tudor wine cellar dating from 1529.  The wine cellar is now used for social functions, but I've spoken to some of the security guards who patrol the building at night, and they tell me they've seen ghosts in that area of the building.  One guard told me that he'd seen what he presumed to be an intruder walk across the corridor from one room to another.  He issued a challenge but on reaching the spot where the figure had been seen, found there were no doors - the figure had apparently walked through the walls.  Ghosts weren't in my terms of reference, by the way, but it was impossible to have a UFO project without it becoming a focal point for all sorts of other weird reports.  There's a short article on my website, entitled MoD Ghosts, which gives details of other military locations that are supposedly haunted.  
 
What is your opinion of Dr. David Clarke's and other researchers who campaign to get files on the UFOs released to the public?

It's not fair to credit individual ufologists for the MoD releasing its UFO files, because many different people have been lobbying the MoD on this issue.  Indeed, the main reason that the MoD released the files was because they received more Freedom of Information Act requests relating to UFOs than on any other subject.  Several dozens ufologists and hundreds of other members of the public wrote to the MoD about this until ultimately the Department decided it would be easier to release the files than to respond individually to the hundreds of FOI requests they were receiving.  I support the MoD release of this material.  While arguably the decision was only made because of the public pressure, it's still a good example of open government.
 
What is your personal opinions of what Happened at Warminster?

There were clearly many UFO sightings and reports of other paranormal phenomena.  However, the whole Warminster phenomenon then became something of a media circus and this distorted the true picture.  Warminster was regarded as a hotspot for UFOs and the unexplained, but the true picture was probably more complex.  My MoD research into such hotspots cast doubt on the idea that places such as Warminster had more sightings than elsewhere and suggested instead that media coverage encouraged a higher proportion of people who had had a UFO sighting or a strange experience to come forward.
 
What are your future plans and are you working on any more books?

I've already written 4 books and while I don't rule out writing more, they take between 6 months and a year to write and at present I'm too busy with other projects.  I write for various newspapers and magazines as a freelance journalist and I do work for film companies and PR agencies, promoting new science fiction movies and DVDs.  But most of my work now involves TV and radio, where I contribute to a wide range of programmes, commentating on subjects that include the unexplained, conspiracy theories, science fiction, space, fringe science and defence.
 
Do you think we will ever get definitive proof of life elsewhere in the universe or that aliens have visited earth from any government within the next 100 years?

I don't know if we've been visited so I can't answer the second question.  But as to intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, it's quite possible that we'll obtain proof - probably in the form of detecting a signal with a radio telescope.  The construction of the Square Kilometre Array could help with this.  It's a radio telescope so powerful that - when fully operational - it should be able to find any artificial signal out to a distance of maybe 100 light years. 

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