Operation Thunder Child

Operation Thunder Child is a 1999 novel by British civil servant Nick Pope.

It draws on government work on UFOs and is a "what if" novel that reflects some of the author's concerns about the defence and national security issues raised by the UFO phenomenon.

The book is a techno-thriller that draws on real crisis-management procedures.

[2] In Operation Lightning Strike, the limited battles in the previous book give way to all-out war, with the fate of Earth hanging in the balance.

As with Operation Thunder Child, the book needed official clearance.

Cover of the 1999 novel by UFO desk MoD operative Nick Pope . In this novel Nick Pope speculated that alien bodies ( EBEs ), had been taken to Porton Down .