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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
(The Lord Winterbottom)
To ask Her Majesty's Government
whether they will reconsider their
decision, implicit in their answers
to two recent Questions for Written
Answer (cols. 1347 and 1453), not
to draw the attention of the Ministry
of Defence and the Home Office to the
interview on France-Inter radio in
·February 1974 of the then French
Minister of Defence M•. Robert Galley
about unidentified flying objects by
M. Jean-Claude Bourret which is
transcribed in his book "The Crack
in the Universe".
The Ministry of Defence are end{;avouring to obtain an
official transcript of the interviel'T said to have taken
place on France-Inter radio in Febrmtry 1974.

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