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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. 13 …be exported to alien civilizations; as the densest planet in the solar system, the · Earth had…
  • p. 40 …knowledge were more advanced or if we had more information about the sightings in question. It…
  • p. 43 …It was just before the Americans had landed on the moon. Sir Frank said that he…
  • p. 54 …ls it not presumptuous, the argument goes, to suppose that elsewhere in space creatures more advanced…
  • p. 62 …One of the most advanced experimental stations at Jodrell Bank-just take these statistics on board…
  • p. 66 …the active list of the Navy at a very advanced age, had lived into the age…
  • p. 128 …The Government consider that, overall, the t protocols mark a valuable advance in humanitarian law applicable…
  • p. 155 …The/Government consider that, overall, the t~ protocols mark a valuable advance in humanitarian law applicable…
  • p. 190 …the Gallipots campaign in 1975, an en~; ire British regiment, the First Fotirth Norfolks, -was advancing…
  • p. 192 …This was once explained by the claim that aliens had advance bases the other side of…
  • p. 196 …Lord Clancarty if the latt~r will give advance notice. I repeat the advice I gave…
  • p. 206 …Lord Clancarty if the latt€r will give advance notice. I repeat the advice I gave…
  • p. 212 …the Gallipots campaign in 1975, an en~; ire British regiment, the First Fourth Norfolks, -was advancing…
  • p. 214 …This was once explained by the claim that aliens had advance bases the other side of…
  • p. 477 …In advance of conducting a careful review of the documentation this sum remains an estimate only…
  • p. 481 …In advance of conducting a careful review of the documentation this sum remains an estimate only…
..i ar::: ,-·,je l>.
Seu!e une donnee a pu etre mi~e en
evidence par M. Poher : il semble
exister unc oorrCiation entre les obser-
V>lions d'O.V.N.I. et des fluctuations
passagCremc,~t anonnales du champ
magnctique terrestrc.
Au nivcau global du ptu!nomenc,
on. ne peut done retenir t;uc les points
stuvants :
Mise en panne d'un moteur ;\
;
3.64 °~
ru!ant
propr; "·o!onte i 1.82 ~~
~·en «1Ue certain~ fl"i~ccins re:-.\ent qt.e CC'\ ph~nf\m~neo; pcuvent Ctre (OHis.C~ rar
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- les temoig.1ages ne peuvent i'tre sus-
pectes puisq~e dan• plas d·! 80 %
des cas on peut le< ~orreJ.:r d\ec
des (( evenements )) aerospatjaux ou
physiques;
- dans 8 %des cas environles temoins
dccrivcnt un phenomcne rceilemcnt
observe et inconnu:
- Ia diver~itc des caracteristiqucs du
phenomene ~st telle qu'il n'cst prc-
~entement pas possible d'e!abo;er
une thcorie scientifique rigoureuse
Q'Jant a sa nature ou son \lrigine
(physique ou autre); elle pern•et
cgalemeut d'affirmer que ce pheno-
mcnc n'cst pas le fait d'une technCJ·
Iogie humame;
-.se' efl"ets Ia ngiblcs sur 1-• etres
hamains ct l'cnvironnemeni sont
sails dangC':.
*
* *
En t'Ctat actud de nos connais~anres.
il srmblo ditlicde de conclure autr~onent
qu 'en cons:atant l'impt.tissaru:e de !a
sdence dans ce d•Jmaine. Cc J'heno·
mcne nc pounnt ptcscntcmem c:re
analyse :'tl'aide d'i~slrUin<:r.t~ de mesure
connus. ce n'est en definitive que grace
a l'acc••mulation cle temoignugcs decri-
vant d 'une fa;;on precise, n<'n sculefllent
Je phenomene, m:1is encore tcut-!s lcs
donnCes. physiques de l'environnement,
que les chen:hcurs po~!rrom p~ut~etre
un jour a,·oir Ia chance de d\!c<,uvrir
le< poram~lre< <]Ui ;r.nnott~ont de
mieux l'interprC:ter.
Tout en faisant preuve d'un~ grande
ouverture d'espnt. il faut se ·gardor ue
condusions hatives quant 3 Ia natmi:
eta l"origine du ph.!nomen~ et adn;ettre
qu'ac:tudlement le probl.!me reste pose
comme bien d'autrcs dans le dorolaine
spatial. •

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