Max Spiers, a British Ufologist
and conspiracy theorist, sent his mother a text message days before his
death earlier this year saying: “If anything happens to me,
investigate.”
Spiers, 39, originally from Canterbury, was found dead in Warsaw in June.
Spiers, 39, originally from Canterbury, was found dead in Warsaw in June.
Local authorities say he died from natural causes – but his mother has told reporters she has doubts over the verdict.
Vanessa Bates, an English teacher, said: "He was making a name for himself in the world of conspiracy theorists and had been invited to speak at a conference in Poland in July.
"He was staying with a woman who he had not known for long and she told me how she found him dead on the sofa.
"But I think Max had been digging in some dark places and I fear that somebody wanted him dead."
Vanessa Bates, an English teacher, said: "He was making a name for himself in the world of conspiracy theorists and had been invited to speak at a conference in Poland in July.
"He was staying with a woman who he had not known for long and she told me how she found him dead on the sofa.
"But I think Max had been digging in some dark places and I fear that somebody wanted him dead."
Ms Bates remarks have prompted fevered online speculation among conspiracy theorists. Scott C Waring of UFO Sightings Daily told Metro:
“This is really strange. It does seem that UFO researchers are now
being targeted, probably to slow the rate of information being leaked to
the public.”
However, author and journalist Nick Pope, who investigated the UFO
phenomenon for the Ministry of Defence in the early Nineties, said on Twitter:
“The death of Max Spiers was a tragedy, but having run the UK
Government's UFO project I promise we don't go around killing UFO
researchers.”
Ms Bates described her son as a “very fit man who was in good
health", adding: "All I have is a death certificate from the Polish
authorities that it was from natural causes, but no post-mortem was done
so how can they tell that?
"They are also refusing to release any paperwork about it to me because, absurdly, I don't have his written permission.
"He has a brother, Josh, and sister, Becky, who are both devastated,
as are his two boys. We all want answers to this and I will continue to
fight to get to the truth."
North East Kent coroner's office said that an investigation into Mr Spiers’ death was in its “very early" stages. Telegraph
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