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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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e 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. 2
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