'NASA Conspiracies': Not all controversial, says Nick Redfern

Redfern is a familiar face on the History Channel’s “Monster Quest” and “UFO Hunters”; the National Geographic Channel’s “Paranatural”, and the Syfy Channel’s “Proof Positive” and writes for UFO Magazine, Fate, Fortean Times, and Paranormal Magazine.

His research took him to Puerto Rico in search of the blood-sucking Chupacabras; to Roswell, New Mexico to explore the truth behind the famous UFO crash of 1947 and to Wisconsin in pursuit of the infamous Mothman.

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Originally from England, he runs the American office of the British-based Center for Fortean Zoology in Arlington, Texas. His center probes such extinct or unknown animals as Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, the Chupacabras, sea-serpents, and the Abominable Snowman.

In his new book, The NASA Conspiracies, Redfern blames high-level cover-ups by the National Aeronautical and Space Administration eversince it was established in 1958 and illustrates how it failed to tell the truth to the world about its space missions. "All the while, behind the open, friendly face of NASA is a dark and mysterious, ominous world, a world littered with high-level cover-ups," he says.

Some of the "cover-ups" that he said NASA resorted to in the past include some false claims in an effort to show technological superiority over the former Soviet Union which was billed "Sputnik crisis".

When asked how NASA will respond to his book, he said: "I don’t think NASA will have too much comment to make about The NASA Conspiracies. The book is not, I should stress, an attack on NASA. As I note, in the book I’m 100 percent supportive of NASA’s position that we did go to the Moon. And I do not believe any of the Space Shuttle accident conspiracy theories have any value to them. And where I do talk about UFO incidents involving NASA, where possible I have relied on on-the-record witness testimony and official documents that have surfaced via the Freedom of Information Act."

Here is an exclusive interview with Nick Redfern:

1. What is The NASA Conspiracies about?

The NASA Conspiracies is a full-length study of NASA’s involvement in such controversies as the Face on Mars; the issue of whether or not the Apollo Moon-landings were faked; sightings of UFOs by NASA’s astronauts; NASA’s knowledge of possible crashed UFO incidents; claims that the Space Shuttle disasters involving Challenger in 1986 and Columbia in 2003 were sabotaged; and a whole range of X-Files-styles cover-ups and secrets concerning NASA and alien life.

2. Have astronauts seen UFOs in space?

Many of the reports of astronauts seeing UFOs in space, or on the Moon, are apocryphal and unproven beyond hearsay, but there have been claims of astronauts allegedly having encountered UFOs in space, taken photographs of them, and even filmed them. The challenge for us, as researchers, is to try and get hold of data that would undeniably prove such a scenario.