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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. 39 …lot of people in this country that there was ah•o a unit-a scientific one…
  • p. 42 …States; secondly, to see whether UFOs '- could contribute technical and scientific -· .J We know that war…
  • p. 43 …It was just before the Americans had landed on the moon. Sir Frank said that he…
  • p. 62 …1297 Unidentified ·.. 18 JANUARY 1979 ··'Flying Objects -1298 on the Canadian prairies has displayed 1 scientific…
  • p. 118 …The 11Ufologists11 thilik that certain writings, drawingn D.nd sculptures, particulazoly those of the South American…
  • p. 167 …to prove the material existence . of UFOs. Scientific point of View It would be pointles·s…
  • p. 452 …text of the resolution and that the Americans also intend to go along with the consensus…
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( SPEED OF MOVEtiENT TRAJECTORY
SUPERSONIC 1696 STRAIGHT LINE 35%
FAST (LIKE AIRCRAFT) *SUCCESSIVELY 1-iOVING AND ) 1~ ABNORMAL TRA_JECTORIES (STOPS,
FAST ) 42% ARABESQUES /JI{j DISAPPEARANCE) 45%
SLOW 22% LANDING OR
MOTIONLESS 1'1% STATIONARY "PBASEU 20}6
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*This is a literal translation of the words ia the text. It is difficult to kno~
what the writer means by 11successivement mobile et rapid" - unless "mobile"
(moving) is, in fact, a misprint for "immobile" (motionless) whereupon the entry
would read "successively motionless and fast" which would make slightly better
sense.
Emissions observed
SOUND TFEm!AL EFFECTS ·LWJNOifSAND THERMAL- SMELL
EFFECTS
:
VARIOUS NOISES 12;6 NO EFFECT LUMINOUS \'ARIOUS
OBSERVED 97.2716 PARALYSING BAY o.4(e6 SMELLS 1o3~
WHISTLING 1)"% EFFEv"'T CORRELATION NOil'E 98.6~
OBSERVED 1.3'?% COLOUR
SPEED 0.46%
HIDIMING 3% EFFECT WITE 1.36% NONE 92.08%
TRACES
Sli'iENCE I ?Cf/o· .,
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Effects on observers and various effects
In France, apart fro~ the effect of surprise, only minor effects were recorded
on observers who reported on their observations to the police. None of them was
traumatized by his experience nor underwent any psychological change.
To date, none of them claims to have received a "mission" or bas created any
ideological group based on the claim that he is the prophetic mouthpiece of the
"apparition".
Similarly domestic. ani~s seem only slightly disturbed by the phenomenon.

Cases discussed

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