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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.
“Open Minds”11 pages
M.3 contd r doncurren tly the Daily Express is drumming up ~"~1~~!~· '~!F ·expensi!~r s~~i ~~:e~ ci~s!~~;~o~~!~!i~~t~~~ ~~rd nnd' shortly to be released - evidently 'hard' sci-fi, with an internationally recognised UFO man as advise.r, not a light romance like •star ¥Tars'. We may be in for a long hau1 on UFOs. The reply to the Earl will probably be reported at least in the Daily Express,who will make what they can of it. 3. Draft reply and background note placed opposite. The Earl presumably hopes for NOD recognition that 'H Galley admitted freely that UFOs exist; that they are a serious problem; that many landings have taken place and are still doing so' (to quote Lord ClancartyJs recent letter to the Daily Telegraph). As the records in this file shovT, H Galley, equivocal though he was, admitted no such thing, only#·that the phenomena are sometimes difficult to explain. Official French rJIOD attitude is similar to our own: UFos·may or may not exist, but there is no evidence of military threat. 4. In qne of his books the Earl suggests that UFO reports go back to the Star of Bethlehem and earlier. If 'They' have not attacked in the last 2000 years, it is doubtful whether the Earl's evidence could justi~y diversion of defence resources just at-present; but it woulci 'be imprudent for ~IOD to say such things publicly t for rre ";Ould merely 1ra-t-T ~men.t .. ~--_·-~--~-------------·· ------·- 3 March 1978 ---- .--,.;.----~~./ ~-· /,,,:<· ,-; T M P STEVENS Head of S4(Air) MB 8245 7048 r.m
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