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March 2009 highlights guide

The National Archives (UK) · 2009-03 · 8 pages · text from the file's own layer

The National Archives (UK) issued this highlights guide in March 2009 to help readers navigate a newly released batch of Ministry of Defence UFO files. It explains how to use the PDF bookmarks and lists key stories highlighted by Dr David Clarke in files DEFE 24/1938 and DEFE 31/176 to 31/181. These include the Calvine diamond-shaped UFO photographs, RAF Tornado crews overtaken over Germany in November 1990 by what was later found to be Soviet rocket debris, and a Heathrow boomerang sighting. It ends with an index of reports by region.

  • p. 3 …letter from RAF Wattisham to MoD and Norfolk police. DEFE 31/176 p224 A project to…
  • p. 7 …p128) Nottinghamshire DEFE 31/176 (p429 – 431) Norfolk DEFE 24/1938 (p38 – 39) Northern Ireland DEFE…
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Below is a list of the bookmarks contained in each file, with a short summary
of each bookmark. Please note that not all files contain bookmarks.
Key stories and events featured in the files (red text):
DEFE 24/1938
P2 – 9
Investigation papers into a report of a UFO near Belfast Airport in
December 1989 (see also DEFE 31/179, pages 209 – 217)
p38 – 39
Reports by an anonymous female who claimed to have been
approached by a man whilst walking her dog one evening in November
1989. The man told her that he was from another planet, and that “crop
circles” had been caused by others like him who had travelled to earth.
“One of our more unusual UFO reports” noted a covering letter from
RAF Wattisham to MoD and Norfolk police.
DEFE 31/176
p224
A project to produce a computerised database of UFO reports (see
p432) is halted when the head of the MoD‟s Secretariat (Air Staff)
senses a potential public relations disaster, should the existence of the
project leak to the press.

Cases discussed

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