Question: what does Operation Thunder Child and Nick Pope have in common?

Context articles: Mark Zonder
Operation Phantom Thunder
Open Skies, Closed Minds
Operation Thunder Child
HMS Thunder Child
Pope Urban X
Mike Trim
Flying Saucer Working Party
Nick Pope (journalist)
Thunderchild

Mark Zonder (born 16 April 1958) is the drummer of American heavy-metal band Warlord.
 When the band was in a hiatus, he joined Fates Warning.
 His artistic name in Warlord is "Thunder Child".
 He also has his own band Slavior.
Operation "Phantom Thunder" began on 16 June 2007, when Multi-National Force-Iraq launched major offensive operations against al-Qaeda and other extremist terrorists operating throughout Iraq.
 Operation Phantom Thunder was a corps level operation, including Operation Arrowhead Ripper in Diyala Province, Operation Marne Torch and Operation Commando Eagle in Babil Province, Operation Fardh al-Qanoon in Baghdad, Operation Alljah in Anbar Province, and continuing special forces actions against the Mahdi Army in southern Iraq and against Al-Qaeda leadership throughout the country.
 The operation was one of the biggest military operations in Iraq since the U.S. invasion in 2003.
Open Skies, Closed Minds, a book on ufology, expresses the views of Nick Pope, a former UFO investigator with the British Ministry of Defence (MOD).
Operation Thunder Child is a 1999 book by British civil servant Nick Pope.
 Since Pope had worked for the British Ministry of Defence on the subject of unidentified flying objects, the book had to be cleared by the Ministry prior to publication.
HMS "Thunder Child" is the name of the fictional ironclad torpedo ram of the Royal Navy, destroyed by Martian fighting-machines in H. G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds", while protecting a refugee rescue fleet of civilian vessels.
Pope Urban X is a fictional pope created by French writer Voltaire in his book "Candide".
 Voltaire did this in order to avoid any consequences that would be incurred upon him, for in "Candide" Pope Urban X has an illegitimate child.
 In Chapter 11 an old woman declares herself to be the daughter of Pope Urban X and the Princess of Palestrina.
 (Voltaire was being particularly cautious, since at the time and now the highest numbered Pope Urban was the eighth).
Mike Trim (born 26 August 1945) is an artist most famous for illustrating the cover of "Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds", which depicts a Martian tripod striking down the heroic "Thunder Child".
 A book of his illustrations entitled "The Future was FAB: The Art of Mike Trim" was released in 2006.
Flying Saucer Working Party (or FSWP) was the name of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) first "official study into UFOs", which has its roots in a study commissioned in 1950 by the MOD’s then Chief Scientific Adviser, the great radar scientist Sir Henry Tizard.
 As a result of his insistence that UFO sightings should not be dismissed without some form of proper scientific study, the Department set up what writer Nick Pope has described as ""arguably the most marvellously-named committee in the history of the civil service"".
Nick Pope (born 19 September 1965) is a freelance British journalist and media commentator.
 He was an employee at the British Government's Ministry of Defence (MoD) from 1985 to 2006 and is best known for a role he undertook for the British Government from 1991 to 1994 which involved investigating reports of UFO sightings to determine their defence significance.
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