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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. 7 …I apologise for the quality of the Facsimile message from RAF Neatishead. We have checked with…
  • p. 313 …Sector Operations Centre (South) at RAF Neatishead have told D Air Def's staff that nothing…
  • p. 381 …Sector Operations Centre (South) at RAF Neatishead have told D Air Def's staff that nothing…
  • p. 394 …The lights observed from Skegness were captured on video which is being sent to RAF Neatishead…
  • p. 397 …RAF Neatishead if any aircraft activity was present on the radar in that area; Neatishead had…
  • p. 398 …Meanwhile, CRC Neatishead's inquiries had revealed no sign of air movements or military exercises in…
  • p. 417 …Tornado F3 QRA aircraft are held on high alert at RAF Leuchars but not routinely at…
  • p. 418 …No copy was sent to Neatishead. b. RAF Air Defence Ground Environment units, including CRC Neatishead…
  • p. 427 …The lights observed from Skegness were captured on video which is being sent to RAF Neatishead…
  • p. 430 …RAF Neatishead if any aircraft activity was present on the radar in that area; Neatishead had…
  • p. 431 …Meanwhile, CRC Neatishead's inquiries had revealed no sign of air movements or military exercises in…
  • p. 448 …Torna o F3 QRA aircraft are held on high alert at RAF Leuchars b t ot…
  • p. 449 …No copy was sent to Neatishead. b. RAF Air Defence Ground Environment units, including CRC Neatishead…
  • p. 456 …RAF Neatishead to GESM dated 5 Oct 1996 attached to a transcipt of conversations between Neatishead…
  • p. 463 Copies of report made by RAF Fylingdales, North Yorkshire, of unidentified objects tracked by the BMEWS…
  • p. 471 …Copies of report made by RAF Fylingdales, North Yo~kshire, of unidentified ~·;}.Y' object/s tracked…
  • p. 477 …Copies of UFO reports made in the early hours of30/31 March 1993 by RAF and…
  • p. 491 …Copies of UFO reports made in the early hours of 30/31 March 1993 by RAF…
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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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