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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.

  • p. 7 …I apologise for the quality of the Facsimile message from RAF Neatishead. We have checked with…
  • p. 313 …Sector Operations Centre (South) at RAF Neatishead have told D Air Def's staff that nothing…
  • p. 381 …Sector Operations Centre (South) at RAF Neatishead have told D Air Def's staff that nothing…
  • p. 394 …The lights observed from Skegness were captured on video which is being sent to RAF Neatishead…
  • p. 397 …RAF Neatishead if any aircraft activity was present on the radar in that area; Neatishead had…
  • p. 398 …Meanwhile, CRC Neatishead's inquiries had revealed no sign of air movements or military exercises in…
  • p. 417 …Tornado F3 QRA aircraft are held on high alert at RAF Leuchars but not routinely at…
  • p. 418 …No copy was sent to Neatishead. b. RAF Air Defence Ground Environment units, including CRC Neatishead…
  • p. 427 …The lights observed from Skegness were captured on video which is being sent to RAF Neatishead…
  • p. 430 …RAF Neatishead if any aircraft activity was present on the radar in that area; Neatishead had…
  • p. 431 …Meanwhile, CRC Neatishead's inquiries had revealed no sign of air movements or military exercises in…
  • p. 448 …Torna o F3 QRA aircraft are held on high alert at RAF Leuchars b t ot…
  • p. 449 …No copy was sent to Neatishead. b. RAF Air Defence Ground Environment units, including CRC Neatishead…
  • p. 456 …RAF Neatishead to GESM dated 5 Oct 1996 attached to a transcipt of conversations between Neatishead…
  • p. 463 Copies of report made by RAF Fylingdales, North Yorkshire, of unidentified objects tracked by the BMEWS…
  • p. 471 …Copies of report made by RAF Fylingdales, North Yo~kshire, of unidentified ~·;}.Y' object/s tracked…
  • p. 477 …Copies of UFO reports made in the early hours of30/31 March 1993 by RAF and…
  • p. 491 …Copies of UFO reports made in the early hours of 30/31 March 1993 by RAF…
No. Since 1970 we have sent back to the Gli:PA all the statemen.ts and each
( ' there is ~ statement o~ something extraordinary happens, we continue to)!19
send it to them both through the pilots and through the gendarmerie.. But the
Air Force considered, before 1970, that as there was, within the framework
of its Air Defence mission, n~ danger, you see that it is not their mission
after all to study these !>henomena on the scientific level - we consider that
. that is tho role of. the National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) where people
Sltch as M Pohsr, are carrying out a study which seems to us to be quite
interesting to foll~w •. But it does not come within our province. Conseq;tentl~..
we have no direct contact, though, I repeat, we make a contribution. Every
tim~ something appears, we send it to tr~t specialist body which is working,
basically,on behalf of the nation.
I- However, Minister, unidentified space objects in French air space seems
to concern r.ationol dafence?
MG- Yes. that does concern national defence and I would say that that is
why we are fo:!.lowing ~his question to try and see if any correlations can be
established. And I would say that, personally, I am rather interested in this
phenomena of the correlations which M Poher has eA~lained, between the
variations of the magnetic field and the passage of UFOs. There are a number
of relatively disturbing phenomena which may, one day, have an explanation
wldch is not an explanation of a specific flying object, which may be magnetic
phenomena. But for the moment, we are obliged to recognise that there is
something there which we do not understand. There is also the quite impressive
i~crease in visual observations - I shall not go into descriptions which your
listeners know, since many of them coincide - but the visual observations of
luminous phe~omena which are sometimes spherical, sometimes avoid ~tc, and...
which are characterised by extraordinarily swift movements, all these are, I

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