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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.
\Vl; uU IJt:J.. __ ., liJ! '-·- . • FRENCH AIR FORCE VERSUS ~£8 e bz Lt Col Gaston Alexis· -Since last year, the specialist and general press, radio- and televisio~ netwrks have been paying an inc1·easing amount of attention to UFOs. Certainly, public interest in this subject has not yet reached the level of 1954, which caused two I-1Ps, Messrs Jean Nocher and Leotard, to put a written q-aestion before the Secretary-of State for the Armed Forces, on October 22, concerning the role of the armed forces in this at"ea. It i.e true that Mr Galley, the thel'! Minister of Defence, recalled it clearly at his interview on France-Inter~ In view of the currency of· the aubjoc~ however, it seems useful tc recall the role of the air force in this matten to present the UFO dossier hold by thea and to sumhlarize the various theories and counter-theorie~ which exiet in France. The Role of the Air Force iu this Al~ea~ ?::TTl mrs At the end of the last world war, a seientific bureau was set up within the Air Ministry to follow the development of aero-apace techniqueo and technologies and the progress in the knowledge of the aero-terestrial and spatial envil~nment in which aircraft and satellitas have their beinge It has since become a fore- casting and development bureal.\ but its ro::.es have not changed. In 1951, when the wave of statements on the appearance of 11myaterious heavenly objects'' increased in volume in France, this bureau, on ita O"cn initiative, opened ~ dossier on the subject in order better to appreciate the nature and location of these manifestations in French airspace. In 1954, the Secretary of State fo~ the Armed Forces asked the air force to follow up thia question on an official basis from that time on • •.. An Instruction from the air force staff put th~e cl.eeision iuto concrete form. All high commands were asked to communicate to the "air" scientific .bureau all evidence of UFOs collected on their territory.
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