Nicholas Julian Cook was CEO of defence industry consultant firm Dynamixx.[1] He is a British former aviation journalist as well as the author of fiction and non-fiction works.
In the 1990s, Cook was the aviation editor of Jane's Defence Weekly, the international defence journal.[2] He was an aerospace consultant and contributor to the journal from 2002 to 2008.[3]
He won four Journalism Awards from the Royal Aeronautical Society in the Defence, Business, Technology, and Propulsion categories.[4]
The Hunt For Zero Point,[4] 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.[5] It focuses on Igor Witkowski's conspiracy theory that the Nazis developed a UFO-like device which allegedly became the basis for US research.[6][7][8]
Cook has also written two novels, Angel Archangel[9] and Aggressor,[10] as well as ghostwriting a number of books predominantly on military subjects.[11]
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.[12] He also wrote and presented the 2005 documentary UFO's: The Secret Evidence, known as An Alien History of Planet Earth in the US.[13]
He has been a frequent guest on Coast To Coast AM, a radio show that deals with the paranormal and conspiracy theories.[14]
Cook was the founder and CEO of Dynamixx, a consultancy that brought together the defence industry and the search for solutions to climate change.[15][16] His current focus is on writing and corporate storytelling.