Nick Pope, a former U.K. Ministry of Defence and UFO expert who frequently appeared on the History Channel’s Ancient Aliens, has died after a battle with cancer. He was 60.
The passing was announced on Facebook on Monday (April 6) by Pope’s wife, Elizabeth Weiss, who wrote, “My heart is breaking — 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 dearly.”
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