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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…
THE EARL OF CLANCARTY
ANS,•TER
MONDAY, 28TH NOVE1JIBE!fi:1977 ·~ .
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To ask Her Majesty's Government.
l'Thether they are alvare that in an
interview on France-Inter radio
on 21 February f974 Nonsieur Robert
Galley, then French ~linister of
Defence, stated that his l~nistry
had set up a section in 1954 to
study eyewitness accounts of
unidentified flying objects; and
l'Thether our Ninistry of Defence
also has a section to investigate
these tmidentified flying objects.
The Gove:rnment has no record of a statement made in
February 1974 by the then French ~linister of Defence.
Our I~nistry of Defence has no specific organisation
engaged on the examination of reports of unidentified flying
objects; reports are examined by specialist staffs as part ·of
their normal duties to see if they contain any implications
for the defence of the United Kingdom. Investigations into
any scientific signifi-cance of phenomena which go beyond
defence interests are not carried out.by the Department •.

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