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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. 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…
2225 Written . ~. {LORDS]
liberation ·movement which ·sought to
invoke the protocol. Neither in Northern
Ireland nor in any other part ofthe United
Kingdom is there a situation which meets
the crit~ria laid down for the application
of· either protocol. .Nor is there :.any
terrorist organisation operating within
the United · Kingdom )Vhich fulfils :the
requirements which a national liberation
movement must meet in order to be entitled
to claim rights under Protocol J. :There is
therefore no question of any. of the pro-
visions of either_ protocol benefiting. the
IRA or .any others who may carry out
terroris~ activities in peacetime. ·
The protocols will not become binding
upon the United Kingdom unless and
until the signature is ratified. The Govern-
ment intend to move towards ratification
indue course.. Legislation will be required
to implement certain provisions of Proto-
col I, as it was for the Geneva Conventions
themselves.
TOWN AND
GENERAL· nn-.r..,'T·.,..,:TO.·
. (AMENDMENT) ~ ....~..·.a.
: ·Bar~ness STEWART ftl)i.:.£>.!'' 11
~~l!~9H as~ed lier, M:ajest.Y's -~--,;..'f;~:~~t1i''~
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Whether they will make· a: Statement
about the Town and Country Planning
· · General · Development (Amendment)
Order 1977. ·
L· Baroness BIRK :. My rig~t honourable
friend the Secretary. of State is arranging
for the .·order to be withdrawn. The
Government will shortly be presenting to
Parliament the response to the ·Eighth
Report of the Expenditure Committee:
Planning Procedures. He intends to
consider further the ·provisions of the
general development order in the light of
reactions to that response.
House. adjourned at four
minutes before eight o'clock.

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