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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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I ·pa~~ ,Stu~~s through us - all the documents that we had - it is actually .te disturbing. I think that the gendarmes .are serious people and that when the gendarmes make a report, they do not do it haphazardl~, and that ~f there were only one or two, you could say that the gendarmes' sincerity was suspect. But I must say that there are a great number of gendarmes' reports which are very varied. It should be said that when they report incidents, if you like, which have been reported to them, few of them, but all the same some, report phenomena at ground level, you know, changes in the ground. All thiE, if you like, is still quite fragmented. I think, to conclude on this matter, that we must adopt an extremely open attitude of mind to all this, not put into doubt the sincerity of people, some of whom are obviously sincere, but at the moment it is really far too soon to draw the least conclusion. Armed Forces Public Relations Information Service 1st Division Pario 21 February 1974 Summary - Analysis Office Analysis Sheet of the Spoken Press Interview Station: France Inter Time .. .. 21 February 1974 1300 hours Subject: Interview with M Galley on UFOs. Jean-claude Bourret, for the first time a member of the government is breaking the wall of silence, a silence which politic1ans assume when the subject under discussion is UFOs, in other words, flying saucers: M Robert Galley Actually the Minister responsible for National Defence, that is, a man who knows the problems of air defence since UfOs concern air defence first of all, 5
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