Nick Cook is an award-winning investigative journalist, best-selling author of The Hunt for Zero Point, and former Aviation Editor at Jane’s Defence Weekly. A leading expert in aerospace, black projects, and breakthrough propulsion, Cook explores the hidden forces shaping our understanding of UFOs, defense strategy, and consciousness.

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Hunt for zeropoint: https://www.nickcook.works/the-hunt-for-zero-point/

In this interview, Cook discusses the shift from conventional warfare to perception management and mind-based technologies. He delves into remote viewing programs, the reverse engineering of non-human tech, and Jacques Vallee’s control system theory. The conversation also explores spiritual frameworks, information warfare, and the evolving role of consciousness in contact experiences.

Timestamps:

0:00 – Intro: Who is Nick Cook?

1:04 – The draw of defense, secrecy & propulsion mysteries

4:04 – Writing The Hunt for Zero Point

6:55 – Are "nuts and bolts" investigations enough?

16:17 – UFOs, crashes & consciousness

19:34 – Why proving UAPs becomes a “mindbending” trip

22:25 – Technology that looks like UFOs—terrestrial or not?

25:28 – Secrecy, deception & using UFOs as cover stories

30:49 – Why “consciousness” is the real 21st-century battlefield

34:14 – From information war to spiritual warfare

36:13 – Are non-human intelligences playing by different rules?

37:17 – Ingo Swann & psychic development

40:21 – Are UFOs about travel—or something stranger?

44:56 – Western esotericism, Blavatsky, Swedenborg & reality maps

48:33 – “Glitches in the Matrix”: Bigfoot, Loch Ness & overlays

53:56 – What Nick learned from his consciousness studies research

56:49 – A personal story about contact

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