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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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:-·}~~~~~ti~ ftiJN£ X.. -~ . 'v\fi;itc:vdl London SW1 A 2HB Telephone 01-218 (Dirc~t Dialling) 01-218 SOOO . (Swi~chboa~d) Group Captain Yctn:.a.n (RAF) Air J>.ttncho Britich Embaosy }5o Rue du Faubourg St llono::-e Paris (8e) Your rcferc.nco Our reference . D/S4(Air)S/l Date 13 Decembor 1977 1. You probnbly lmow that the Hinictry of Defence receives quite a considerable correspondence on the subject of Unidentified Flyb.g Objects including details of 11sightingsll., \Je t•3ll the public that we ....·.: ~ve not the resources to co~duct a full zcicutific cnqui::-y ir.to th~se phcnor::.~r:.a although we bring the reporta to the attention of the E9ccia.list staffs of the D-3partmon.t to r:l:lke sure that the objects thought: to have bE:en seen haYl~ no bearing on the national defences. V/e do not p·es:.; the invcsti,satio:n to \;he point of positive· indentificntion bu-t ~a."ly oi the "tt'lidcntified" objectn are in fact~ e.ir\."!l,aft seen fro::: ·;.tn.usual &ngleo ox- v.nder u.nustml con.di tions$ · 2. As you will see from the enclosed extracts from P~Gardt a number of queations have been nskcd in the House of Lordf.l in th.a last fe".:l days concerning an interview whic!'l. Hcnsieux- Eobert Galloy9 the fon:ier French Hi.uistcr of Defence is .said to have given on Franco--:Lnte:· :::-adi0 on · 21 Fcb~Jary 1971~. There a::-e alr;o references to the !J.:ltion·::tl C~utre for Space Studies which it; said to·have set up a sectio.n u.nd.cr the direction of l-lonsieur Clnudt) Po.h er to study unidentified fl:;ins objects .. 3c A member of the puolic vrrote to HOD about the alleged ::-adio interview last year and \¥hen S4(Air) consulted your staff by telephone in June_ 1976 tre formed th'3 ir::press:i.o!l that the l:"'re!lch Go•;ernment h9d not embarked on any pp.rticular ini.ti:>.tive in tnL:; f:i.cldo A note rc!!.dc C!\ t•ur files a.t the tine suggoGt/:.1 tho.t French practice is as follo'i7S: a. reports fro~ the public go in the first ~nstunce to tha · Gendanlorie \-:ho if necessary intcr:ie·w ob~;erve::-s ond take atatements b. The Gendarr.v::rie pass on the reyorts to the Fre!lch Hinistry of Defc....nce (l:.ir) -r:ho study tho :r.ilita;.:-y itiplications by Ch'Z!C!\.i~:; r·:--.,.-1 ,_!"'~; -~.i~.. ;'."'::-~ !~ .... ~ .... ~· 1::' 0 ~~~ 5 ~n_·! ~" r, .. .., .. ~:::~:1. '-:~'1 ~r'"'':A.'td'?r ~y scicntifi c ns:pects \:hich m-:1:'/' hnvc H bcariz1.g on mili tE>.~J" affairs.
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