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UFO Expert Nick Pope Dies at 60

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Nick Pope, long-time contributor to the History Channel’s Ancient Aliens and former U.K. Ministry of Defence official, has died at 60 after a battle with cancer.

Through his well-known work on UFOs and extraterrestrial phenomena, Pope became known as the real-life Fox Mulder, the main character in The X-Files.

Pope was survived by his wife, Elizabeth Weiss, who took to Twitter/X to break the news to the UFO expert’s many fans. “My heart is breaking,” she wrote. “Nick passed away this afternoon at our home. The last few weeks of his life, even as he suffered, he managed to do a few interviews from home. I was so lucky to have met and to have married Nick. He was a wonderful husband. I loved him........

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