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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. 39 …space ~hips were seen over into the sea. ~ vanous parts of the USSR by astronomers and…
  • p. 66 …the nuclear submarine, having hegun his first sea-going voyage under sail. That was the band…
  • p. 67 …by the su organisations, balloono;. ~om logical sea•chli beam itself can of lirrht in th…
  • p. 68 …pastimes to sit on the prom:;nadc and \Vatch it go down over tlw sea. Many…
  • p. 187 …J from a hole in the earth, or the depths of the sea, as Lord Clancarty…
  • p. 193 …time continu~, or the depths of the sea, or an~there else they are supposed to…
  • p. 209 …a hole in the earth, or the depths of the sea, as Lord Clancarty has suggested.
  • p. 215 …time continu~, or the depths of the sea, or an~there else they are supposed to…
  • p. 260 …Both reporters are adamant that the helicopters were military - probably 'Sea Kings'? but again MOO (AIR…
  • p. 309 …Crymyn, Dy Time y on hill side approximately 1,000' above sea level. Attending sheep, observes…
  • p. 328 …Both reporters are adamant that the helicopters were military - probably 'Sea Kings'? but again MOD (AIR…
  • p. 380 …Lady on hill side approximately 1,000' above sea level. Attending sheep, observes 2 large white…
  • p. 394 …These lights were observed from a single location out at sea in the opposite direction to…
  • p. 397 …could be related to an incident at sea. The MRCC, unaware of any maritime activity, asked…
  • p. 398 …the dawn, involving a tanker vessel at sea, Boston and Skegness Police Forces and LATCC(Civil…
  • p. 415 …flares' about 20 minutes previously in Irish sea area. Aircraft 2, UK Air out of Manchester…
  • p. 427 …These lights were observed from a single location out at sea in the opposite direction to…
  • p. 430 …could be related to an incident at sea. The MRCC, unaware of any maritime activity, asked…
  • p. 431 …the dawn, involving a tanker vessel at sea, Boston and Skegness Police Forces and LATCC{Civil…
  • p. 446 …Isle of contact in which mi Irish Sea I - Aircr~ft when 30nm $ou nothing se…
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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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