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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. 47 …Therefore, do not be so ready to scoff at UFOs ·when, in ar~other mon:ent…
  • p. 147 …Whether they are aware that Mon~ieur Robert Galley, the then French Minister of Defence, in…
  • p. 181 …the then French lJti.nister o~ Defence, Mons;eur Robert Galley, was inter- viewed by Jean…
ANS\vER
To ask Her Majesty's Government
whether since theii· J ast reply
(Official Report, 1st December,
col. 1453) they have now obtained
the official transcript of the .
broadcast on France-Inter radio
station, February 1974, when the
then French liftnister o:f Defence,
Monsieur Robert Galley, was inter-
viewed by Jean-Claude Bourret
about unidentified flying objects.
The }\finistry of Defence n.ow has the official transcript of
M C·alley's broadca:Jt in ·1974. l~othing in it indicates the
existence of a threat to the Unite~ Kingdom •
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