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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.
“Nevers”28 pages
- p. 40 …But, unlike with the
aircraft reported by the noble Earl, I
have never seen one. I…
- p. 43 …the United States of America which
has never been made known to the public
and even…
- p. 45 …will be, Yes, and yet they have
never seen one. We are asking you to
believe…
- p. 46 …selfish-
ness and tendency to panic as never before
since the days of the Crusades. The…
- p. 47 …I never reached that
standard of mathematics. However I
know that Einstein believed that ele~tro…
- p. 51 …The
difficulty about such an explanation is
that they never seem to come into actual
contact…
- p. 53 …some of the things he told us. Never-
theless, I feel that it is of immense…
- p. 58 …What sort of an
interpretation would somebody who had
H.L.8 Q
never read about…
- p. 59 …l should lib:1
have never seen ball lightning, but the 1 to go into the…
- p. 60 …She said "I don't \Vant to, because it
will spoil it all." They said " Never…
- p. 62 …Of
;orts of sightings
~never it has been
n·estigation they
tttral phenomena
pet to say…
- p. 67 …1308
fro,m h;m ag~;n ~n many other occ";?"'· ' Why have they never tded…
- p. 112 ..~ say that in the Air Force, for tne moment, they have never seemed to
come directly…
- p. 131 …informed that 11so far the military have never fonnd an-ything
of D.nt1tjgressive nature fro…
- p. 161 …Air Force, for tile moment, they have never seemed to
come directly under air defence.
' .
I…
- p. 177 …informed that 11so far the military have never found anything
of an~~gressive nature from the…
- p. 187 …But it
would be a brave man who said there could never,
ever,be manned inter…
- p. 190 …a cloud descended and picked up
~he regiment and it was never heard of again ••••••• (checking…
- p. 192 …Let me assure this House
that Her Majesty's Government has never been approached by
people…
- p. 209 …But it
would be a brave man who said there could never,
ever,be manned inter…
- p. 212 …a cl6ud descended and picked up
:the regiment and it was never heard of again ••••••• (checking…
- p. 214 …Let me assure this Rouse
that Her Majesty's Government has never been approached by
people…
- p. 300 …despite agreeing to complete
a report form, this has never been returned - I wonder why?
(13)
- p. 320 …Mrllllllll stated that
he had been a Met Officer for 8 years and had never~nything…
- p. 368 …despite agreeing to complete
a report form, this has never been returned - I wonder why?
(13)
- p. 399 …Significantly, the plot was never
present on radar displays from the NATS sensors at Cromer and…
- p. 417 …RAF Northwood was never involved in this event.
confusion has arisen because Gt Yarmouth coastguard, referred…
- p. 432 …Significantly, the plot was never
present on radar displays from the NATS sensors at Cromer and…
which are received in HOD ~re referred to
.· ~esponsible for our Air defences to make sure that
on the security of the country. No conVincing
"'~~..~.·\A.................. has ·emerged to date that UFOs actually exist· or }fave defence
ons. Many reports turn out to have commonplace explanations,
common being aircraft or aircraft lights seen under unusual
conditions. The cause of some sightings has not been positively
identified but the reports often lack essential detail. We have
recently reviewed our policy on UFOs with Head of DI 54, who confirm
that it is reasonable to confine our enquiries to the defence
implications and that the exclusion of any investigation beyond this
for MOD is not considered justified.
6. There has been a series of articles on UFOs in the Daily Express
recently, although these seem to be linked with publicity for the multi
million pound commercial film iiClose Encounters of the Third Kind 11
which is shortly to be released. The Eve:1ing Ne\·Ts of 23 February 1978
car1"'ied a report about lights which :follmred a young housewife home
adding that "The Earl of Clancarty, a UFO expert, believes the lights
may have ..been those of a spacecraft sent to spy on us by an unkr..own
civilisation from another planet. • •••• He is currently tryine to
get a House of Lords debate on UFOs and w8.nts an international
investigation". This intention has been documented in the 'No Day
Named' section of the Lords• Order Paper for 28 Febr~ary.
7. The book, ttThe Crack in the Universe 1' which the Earl of Clancarty
referred t0 in his question of 14 December 1977 contains an oocurate
translation of r.r Robert Galley's broadcast in 1974. It also
introduces the transcript quite fairly (on page 75) as an interview
which gave the Ydnister the opportunity to declare that "there are
phenomena lvhich are unexplained". The blurb on the dust cover,
however,. bas N Galley freely admitting that UFOs exist and that they
are a serious problem.
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