Nick Cook (writer)

In the 1990s, Cook was the aviation editor of Jane's Defence Weekly, the international defence journal.{{cite news|url=http://www.salon.com/2002/08/05/zero_gravity/|title="The Hunt for Zero Point" by Nick Cook |last=Kleiner|first=Kurt|date=August 2002|work=Salon}} He was an aerospace consultant and contributor to the journal from 2002 to 2008.{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/09/05/wow.tech.black.world/|title=New technology from 'black world' |last=Easen|first=Nick|date=September 2003|publisher=CNN}}

He won four Journalism Awards from the Royal Aeronautical Society in the Defence, Business, Technology, and Propulsion categories.{{cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/09/into-the-black/3076/|title=Into the Black|last=Bures|first=Frank|date=September 2002|work=The Atlantic|accessdate=11 May 2011}}

The Hunt For Zero Point, 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.{{cite news |last=Scharf |first=Michael |date=June 2002 |title=PW Talks with Nick Cook |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/26530-pw-talks-with-nick-cook.html |work=Publishers Weekly}} It focuses on Igor Witkowski's conspiracy theory that the Nazis developed a UFO-like device which allegedly became the basis for US research.{{cite news |last=McClure |first=Kevin |title=Nazi Ufos |url=http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/184/nazi_ufos.html |work=Fortean Times |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104175440/http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/184/nazi_ufos.html |archivedate=4 November 2013 }}{{Skeptoid|id=4293|number=293|date=17 January 2012|title=Wunderwaffen: Nazi Wonder Weapons|accessdate=22 June 2017|quote=Through this transcript, Witkowski claimed to have learned about Die Glocke. This account became popular in the West when aviation writer Nick Cook included it in his popular 2002 book The Hunt for Zero Point, a tale of the cranks and colorful characters who have tried to invent anti-gravity machines. Since that time, you've been able to find all you want on the Internet about Nazi flying saucers.}}{{cite news | work=Skeptic | title=The Hunt For Zero Point | url=http://www.skeptic.org.uk/component/content/article/2-uncategorised/330-the-hunt-for-zero-point | access-date=24 November 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924102339/http://www.skeptic.org.uk/component/content/article/2-uncategorised/330-the-hunt-for-zero-point | archive-date=24 September 2015 | url-status=dead }}

Cook has also written two novels, Angel Archangel{{cite news |work=New Scientist |last=Gunston |first=Bill |date=December 1990 |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg12817455.600-review-there-i-was-nothing-on-the-clock--flights-of-fancy-for-christmas-begin-with-puzzles-for-the-mind-soar-with-balinese-birds-and-british-bats-then-descend-to-the-tomb-and-chaotic-presents.html |title=Review: There I was, nothing on the clock - Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese birds and British bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents }} and Aggressor,{{cite news |title=Review:Aggressor |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-312-07623-8 |work=Publishers Weekly}} as well as ghostwriting a number of books predominantly on military subjects.{{cite news | url=http://www.thebookseller.com/feature/ghost-i-see-me | title=Is this a ghost I see before me? | work=The Bookseller | first=Rod | last=Stewart |date=June 2000}}

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.{{cite news | work=The Guardian| url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/1999/dec/06/tvandradio.television4 | first=Richard | last=Vine | title=Watch This}} He also wrote and presented the 2005 documentary UFO's: The Secret Evidence, known as An Alien History of Planet Earth in the US.{{cite web | url=http://www.channel4.com/programmes/ufos-the-secret-evidence | title=Channel 4: UFO's: The Secret Evidence }}

He has been a frequent guest on Coast To Coast AM, a radio show that deals with the paranormal and conspiracy theories.{{cite web | title=Coast To Coast: Guests - Nick Cook | url=http://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/cook-nick/5980}}

Cook was the founder and CEO of Dynamixx, a consultancy that brought together the defence industry and the search for solutions to climate change.{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-20385312 | title=Defence firms seek broader agenda |work=BBC News | date =November 2012 |first=Nick |last=Childs}}{{cite news | url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e72e45c6-a621-11dd-9d26-000077b07658.html#axzz3K3aDvDMe |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/Ml65F |archive-date=11 December 2022 |url-access=subscription | title=Defence groups enter green zone |work=Financial Times | date=October 2008 |first=Sylvia |last=Pfeifer |quote=Until now, though, there has been little evidence of a "holistic approach" to the energy sector, said Nick Cook, founder of Dynamixx, a consultancy focused on opportunities in the energy and environmental market for the aerospace and defence industry.}} His current focus is on writing and corporate storytelling.

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