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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.
“UFO Files”38 pages
- p. 6 …Copy of the file relating to a UFO report made by-nd- near
Winchester, Hampshire on…
- p. 7 …Files D/DS8/75/2/5 Part B (UFO Reports-August to November 1980) and D…
- p. 9 …ofLords Debate on UFOs, on 18 January 1979.
On examining our files we have discovered a…
- p. 17 …SPfCIFIC ACTION ON UFO'S AND PRECLUDES THE INSCRIPTJOr OF A
SETARATE UFO ITEM ON NEXT…
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- p. 35 …Our files contain reports and Nick Pope's letters to Dl55 and notes about D Air…
- p. 69 …Galley had said
that UFOs were real but that he, the
Minister, did not know where…
- p. 70 …It cfo!lows UFOs, the truth is simple. There really
that the files must remain closed…
- p. 134 …We may be in for a long
hau1 on UFOs. The reply to the Earl will…
- p. 185 …Copies of enclosures 1/1, 1/2,1/3,1/4 from file Dl55/1 08…
- p. 190 …We have rio reason to believe
that the so-called UFOs are attributed to anything but…
- p. 212 …We have rio reason to believe
that the so-called UFOs are attributed to anything but…
- p. 303 …I received a non Ufo
report from a gentleman (name on file) who is a recently…
- p. 371 …I received a non Ufo
report from a gentleman (name on file) who is a recently…
- p. 451 DR CLARKE- REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
Request 1
Copy of the file relating to a UFO report…
- p. 453 …1977) on the UN debate on
UFOs. (Unclassified)
18. File note dated 16 Dec 1977 seying…
- p. 454 …French handling of UFO reports. (Unclassified)
29. Draft reply, background note and file minutes concerning Lord…
- p. 455 …There is one file D/Sec(AS)12/7- Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs)- Alleged
UFO incident…
- p. 456 …The file
contains no real conclusion to these events and Mr Pope was eventually told by…
- p. 460 …I am currently making - for access to UFO files currently
'closed' under the 30 year rule…
- p. 462 …UFO report made by
Winchester, Hampshire on 14 November 1976.
•
and
I have now received file…
- p. 463 …UFO report files that we have
recalled from archives show that UFO reports were once filed…
- p. 464 I am sorry we are unable to locate the file(s) you requested on the information…
- p. 466 …Lords debate on UFOs, on 18 January 1979. We had two files on this,
but these…
- p. 467 …Lords debate on UFOs, on 18 January 1979. We had two files on this, but these…
- p. 468 REQUISITION FOR A REGISTERED FILE
To:-DR2a2
File Nos:
(1) D/DS8/75/3 UFOs- Parliamentary…
- p. 470 …Ifthe UFO reports
y, \.j.tf' '\,....,.~V'tt contains are filed in chronologie~! order as is…
- p. 471 …The file reference D/Sec(AS)1217 UFOs, alleged UFO incident, 31st March 1993, appears
0…
- p. 472 …Does your branch retain a
list of UFO files that have been destroyed, and the reasons…
- p. 474 …DAO ADGE1
Subject: UFO
Importance: Low
Sir
Unfortunately, Neatishead destroyed their files (and therefore any transcript…
- p. 476 …Copy of the file relating to a UFO report made and -near
Winchester, Hampshire, on 14…
- p. 477 …file which may contain relevant information.
D/Sec(AS)12/7- Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs)- Alleged…
- p. 478 …The files concerned are:
D/DSS/75/2/2 Part L (1980) UFO Reports: Edited
D…
- p. 480 …This was produced because it was
believed that some UFO files might have been over looked…
- p. 482 . . ~·.
MOD Form 262E
REQUISITION FORA REGISTERED FILE
To:-DR2a2
File Nos:
1) D/DS8/7517 PtA…
- p. 486 …We have a file on these events, but I know DIS also have a file D…
- p. 487 …The file I need is PRO reference AIR 2/18977 UFO Reports- due for release in…
- p. 489 …Copy of the file relating to a UFO report made by
near Winch~ster, ~am~s…
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the United· Kingdom which fulfils 'the Whetherthey will make a Staten:i.~~t
requirements· which a national liberation about the Town and Country Planning
movement must meet in order to be entitled General Development (Amendment)
to claim rights U:nder Protocol I .. There is Order 1977. ·
therefore no question of any. of the pro-
visions of either protocol benefiting the
IRA or .any others who may carry out
terrorist activities in peacetime.
· The protocols will not become binding
upon. the United Kingdom unless and
until the signature is ratified. The Govern-
ment intend to move towards ratification
in due course. . Legislation will be required
to implement certain provisions of Proto-
col I, as it was for the Geneva Conventions
themselves. ·
' · Baroness BIRK: My right honourable
friend the Secretaryof State is arranging
for the order to be withdrawn. The
Government will shortly be presenting to
Parliament the response to the Eighth
Report of the Expenditure Committee:
Planning Procedures. He intends to
consider further the provisions of the
general development order in the light of
reactions to that response.
House. adjourned at fo.ur
minutes before eight o'clock. About this file
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