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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. 16 …T!iE C0~1M ITTEE'S tELIBERATION HILL BE HICLUDF.D IN ITS REPORT \.JrllCH WILL…
  • p. 22 …RY IS SAYING Tl-h\ T H£:: HILL tJvT BE FUT OFF AG A I fl…
  • p. 57 …I can give no explana- over the hills between Loch Sweyne and tion why there should…
  • p. 68 …is a great car headlights on distant hills; dust devils; variety of plain explanations. There is…
  • p. 190 …the First Fotirth Norfolks, -was advancing towards Hill 60: a cloud descended and picked up ~he…
  • p. 212 …the First Fourth Norfolks, -was advancing towards Hill 60: a cl6ud descended and picked up :the…
  • p. 259 …with some Scouts Up on the Quantock Hills at about 9pm on the 30th. He reports…
  • p. 262 …hand bend at the bottom of Lantoom Hill, I became: a~;are of what appeared to…
  • p. 300 …At approx 9.00pm he was up on the Quantock Hills, Nth Somerset, with a group…
  • p. 309 …Crymyn, Dy Time y on hill side approximately 1,000' above sea level. Attending sheep, observes…
  • p. 315 …310010z Clee-Hill Clee-Hill Clee-Hill Clee-Hill Burrinqton SB. 3l0010z Clee-Hill SC. 310010z…
  • p. 327 …with some Scouts UJ? on the Quantock Hills at about 9pm on the 30th. He reports…
  • p. 330 …hand bend at the bottom of Lantoom Hill, I became: aware of what appeared to be…
  • p. 343 …LOCAL HILL <COSLEY HILL) L. SATCO MIDDLE WALLOP 1"1. MR GREATLY HAMPSHIRE PAGE 2 RBDAID…
  • p. 368 …At approx 9.00pm he was up on the Quantock Hills, Nth Somerset, with a grou…
  • p. 380 …Lady on hill side approximately 1,000' above sea level. Attending sheep, observes 2 large white…
  • p. 383 …310010z Clee-Hill Clee-Hill Clee-Hill Squawk 1461/039 N/E to S/W Nothing…
  • p. 451 …in answer to a PQ by Lord Hill-Norton on 14 October 1998. This file was…
  • p. 471 …On 14 October 1998 in the House ofLords, Lord Hill-Norton asked the Minister of State…
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e c. F-.com the Defence 11inistry the reports go to a Government
Organisation l:mo.,.:·n D.S· the Centre Nationale d 1Etude Spatial.
d. The reports are also fed into a computer so that they can.
be'addcd to the statistics of the problem".
\le \-lere also informed that 11so far the military have never fonnd an-ything
of D.nt1tjgressive nature fro:n the sightings 9 nol' have the scientists been
able to expla:i.n the phenomena". .
4. It is not unlikely that there 'trill be further Parliamentary Questions
about UFos especially as the subject ~;as debated recently in the United Nations
and I have been asked to obtain the follO\>~:.lng information:
a. a tl·anscript of the bro.:1dcast said to have beeh made by
•tr .Galley in 1974. Soo1e of the letters we have received allege
that 11thc French Air Hinistcr officially confirmed that so-called
flying saucers ~xis~"·
b. Hhat the vie\-15 of the French Hinintry of Defence really are
on the subj cct of unidentified flying objects ... an0. confirmation
that the procedure as outlined at para 3 aboe is still followed
when reports of UFOs are received from the public-
c. \fuat tho nature of the in,:ec.tigations is at the Centre
liationalc d'Etudc Spat'ial and \'lhether these studien are c:m-
ducted under the dir:-"!ction of 1-lonsieur Claude l?oh.er •
.....:;
.5o I should be most grateful for y•;ur comments as soon as convenient please.
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