Nick Pope resigned from his MoD post at the Directorate of Defence Security last year.
He claimed that he and his staff spent their time releasing documents in answer to Freedom of Information requests from the media or members of the public instead of interviewing witnesses to more credible sightings.

>"One such sighting was of a "vast, triangular-shaped craft" firing a narrow beam of light onto the ground and emitting a low-frequency humming sound that was spotted flying over RAF Cosford in the West Midlands and RAF Shawbury in Shropshire in 1993.
In another incident, at the Twin Bases of RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge in Suffolk in December 1980, RAF staff were sent to investigate a suspected plane crash after bright lights were reported emanating from nearby woods. They found a kind of lunar landing module standing on three legs, decorated with strange hieroglyphic-type markings, which then flew off.
The indents it left in the ground were examined the next morning with a Geiger Counter and emitted ten times the normal levels of radiation."

Following France's declassification of their UFO files last year, hopefully the more open attitude will start to draw in more <skeptics.>