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MOD file DEFE 24/2032/1

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This Ministry of Defence file, released through The National Archives and published by The Black Vault, holds the MOD's 2002 handling of Dr David Clarke's requests for UFO documents under the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information. It includes the MOD's 9 December 2002 reply, which covered reports from 1976, 1980, 1993 and 1996 and charged £260. It also contains internal emails and file requisitions, plus Foreign Office and United Nations papers from 1978 on Grenada's proposal for UFO research.

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“Office of Special Investigations”3 pages

  • p. 28 …a: special.. offic-ial Und·ted! ·Nutd.ons study on the nature and relationship of Unidentified…
  • p. 98 …The police in t4is country have not been asked to collect reports of, or investigate, unidentified…
  • p. 147 …Printed Paper Office T e report establishes that since 1947 the otal area of moorland in…
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iAviation Tern;inal has been l•tought i.1t(. i which go beyond defence i!!t·::rc:~:..s '"·e u•:·=-
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us:e for dom~sii:: flights only, ar.l t~ercf?re lcarried out by the Department.
attendance by Customs and ImmJgraticn
l>iail will not be n~(;essary.
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING
OBJECTS
The Ea::l of CLANCARTY ask:!d Her
Majesty's Governme11t:
Whether they arc aw~r·~ th?.t in an
interview on Fnmce-Inter radio on
· 2h:t Fcbr;Jar; 1974 Monsie-:.1:: Robert
Galley. th.;n French. M!n!sier vf
Dcfen:::e, stated that hrs Mm1st!.J' had ,
set ur a s,;ction in 195:1-. to .st:rdy. C'fe- I·.':itne-ss a:;ccunts of umdentlf:e~t f:.yrnf!. 1
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obiects · an.d whcthet our M1r;·stry ol.
D;fenc~ _also ~1as a s~ction ~o investigatt I
thes~ nmdentlfl.ed fi;mg objects. I
Lord WINTERBOTTO:M: The
Gov~rnm~nt have no record of a stat~- I
ment made in February 1974 by the then ,
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1 Fr~:: ~;~~::::.r o:t~~::::~~1as no specific
cr;:;aniso:tirm engaged 0::1 th:! c;:ammation of
I rc;crts of anidenti11ed f~ying objects;
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, reports ~te examined by ~pecialist s~~fi's as
1'y have rcceiv•'d
press publicity and an explanatory leaflet
has been produced for distribution to
drivers. I shall be sending the noble Lord
a copy of the leaflet and ;opies have ccen
placed in the Lil:Hary.
House adjo:1rued :::t ten
minutes before eight o'dock.

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