Nick Cook (writer)
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Nicholas Julian Cook is a British aviation journalist turned defence consultant, former CEO of the defence industry consultancy Dynamixx,[1] and author, whose interest in consciousness studies led him to become a director at Robert Bigelow's Institute for Consciousness Studies.[2]
In the 1990s, Cook was the aviation editor of Jane's Defence Weekly, the international defence journal.[3] He was an aerospace consultant and contributor to the journal from 2002 to 2008.[4]
He won four Journalism Awards from the Royal Aeronautical Society in the Defence, Business, Technology, and Propulsion categories.[5]
Books
The Hunt For Zero Point,[5] published by Century Random House in the UK in 2001 and Broadway Books in the US in 2002, details Cook's ten-year investigation into anti-gravity technology.[6] It focuses on Igor Witkowski's conspiracy theory that the Nazis developed a UFO-like device which allegedly became the basis for US research.[7][8][9]
Cook has also written two novels, Angel Archangel[10] and Aggressor,[11] as well as ghostwriting a number of books predominantly on military subjects.[12]
Television
The 1999 Discovery Channel documentary Billion Dollar Secret followed Cook's investigation into secret US military spending and experimental aircraft that may have been mistaken for UFOs.[13] He also wrote and presented the 2005 documentary UFO's: The Secret Evidence, known as An Alien History of Planet Earth in the US.[14]
Other media appearances
He has been a frequent guest on Coast To Coast AM, a radio show that deals with the paranormal and conspiracy theories.[15]