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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.
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- p. 6 …head of S4(Air), with contributions from RAF Ops (GE)2 and DI55 for reference by…
- p. 7 Copies of report made by RAF Fylingdales, North Yorkshire, of unidentified objects
tracked by the BMEWS…
- p. 41 …encourage informal links between, for
example, the RAF and the very worthy
groups who believe differently…
- p. 48 …last week, one of our particularly
important RAF stations had anything: to
say about them.
this…
- p. 68 …1969, was
we do know that an RAF Vulcan bomber very substantial and detailed and it…
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ill Paris, who has also…
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- p. 182 …official transcript has been provided by the RAF Air Attache
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- p. 186 …ACS(G)(RAF)
UFOs - DEBATE IN THE LORDS
I enclose a first draft of a proposed…
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we do know that an RAF Vulcan bomber on ~ low flying mission
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- p. 199 …and the draft speech to D?.R(RAF) with
the request that he pass his copy…
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- p. 252 …At 0142 hours, I informed RAF West Drayton, Lt Cdr
incident, and he confirmed that there…
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- p. 304 …To his
knowledge there had not been any flyovers by RAF, NATO or other
aircraft and…
- p. 307 …Bentwaters Air Base jointly manned by the RAF
and USAF. Around the time of the alleged…
- p. 313 …I have attached the report
made by a Corporal at RAF Cosford, together with three of…
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- p. 343 …FOR CAB
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- p. 344 …REPORTED 1·0 RAF CHIVENOR OPERATIONS ALSO SEEN Bi POLICE PAfROL
PASSING BURROWS IN CAR
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- p. 345 …FOR CAB
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- p. 346 …FOR CAB
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- p. 372 …To his
knowledge there had not been any flyovers by RAF, NATO or other
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aircraft…
- p. 375 …Bentwaters Air Base jointly manned by the RAF
and USAF. Around the time of tfre alleged…
- p. 381 …I have attached the report
made by a Corporal at RAF Cosford, together with three of…
- p. 394 …The lights observed from Skegness were captured on video
which is being sent to RAF Neatishead…
- p. 397 …The MRCC,
unaware of any maritime activity, asked the Air Rescue
Coordination centre (ARCC) at RAF…
- p. 398 …scramble a Quick
Reaction Alert aircraft from RAF Leuchars to investigate either
the permanent echo or…
BACKGROUND NOTE
MOD interests in UFO investigation is solely to establish
whether report have any bearing on defence. Investigations of
individual reports over a number of years have produced no
evidence that UFOs represent a threat to defence. As might be
expected, simple explanations have been found for most UFO
reports, the most common single source of sightings being air-
craft or the ligh~or aircraft seen under unusual meteorological
conditions. There is nothing to justify the expenditure of Defence
funds on setting up a section to investigate the reports.
2. We sometimes take the line: 'The :r;roD does not dismiss the
possibility that intelligent life could exist in outer space, but
reports that have reached the Department to date contain no
~vidence to support the view that these alleged phenoThena are of
an extra-terrestrial origin'. However, that response is more likely
toi~tate the dedicated enthusiasts than to convince them, so it is
customary to p1ay a dead bat.
3. During 1976, the statement said to have been made by the French
~linister of Defence in 1974 was brought to the Department's notice
in correspondence from the public. Attempts by DPR(R.U')- to verify
the state~ent through the ~·ench Embassy were unsuccessful, since
it was virtually impossible to check back on a radio programme
broadcast two years earlier. Neither -v;as the British .A.ir Attache's
staff in Paris able to produce information on the broadcast. It is
understood, ho"'rever, that the French Defence Ninistry also study
the ~alitary implications and consider any scientific aspect that
may have a bearing on military affajrs. The reports are also con-
sidered by French scientists at a Government organisation knO\m as
the Centre Nationale D'Etude 'spatial. The British Air Attache in
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