title: Monster Files: A Look Inside Government Secrets and Classified Documents on Bizarre Creatures and Extraordinary Animals
author:  Nick Redfern 
description: Nick Redfern is the author of many books, including The Pyramids and the Pentagon; The Real Men in Black; The NASA Conspiracies; Keep Out!; Contactees; Memoirs of a Monster Hunter; and The World's Weirdest Places. He has appeared on more than 70 TV shows, including: Fox News; the BBC's Out of This World; the SyFy Channel's Proof Positive; the History Channel's Monster Quest, America's Book of Secrets, Ancient Aliens, and UFO Hunters; the National Geographic Channel's Paranatural; and MSNBC's Countdown. Nick writes regularly for UFO Magazine, Mysterious Universe, and Fate. He can be contacted at: nickredfernfortean.blogspot.com.
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