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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. 13 …be exported to alien civilizations; as the densest planet in the solar system, the · Earth had…
  • p. 40 …knowledge were more advanced or if we had more information about the sightings in question. It…
  • p. 43 …It was just before the Americans had landed on the moon. Sir Frank said that he…
  • p. 54 …ls it not presumptuous, the argument goes, to suppose that elsewhere in space creatures more advanced…
  • p. 62 …One of the most advanced experimental stations at Jodrell Bank-just take these statistics on board…
  • p. 66 …the active list of the Navy at a very advanced age, had lived into the age…
  • p. 128 …The Government consider that, overall, the t protocols mark a valuable advance in humanitarian law applicable…
  • p. 155 …The/Government consider that, overall, the t~ protocols mark a valuable advance in humanitarian law applicable…
  • p. 190 …the Gallipots campaign in 1975, an en~; ire British regiment, the First Fotirth Norfolks, -was advancing…
  • p. 192 …This was once explained by the claim that aliens had advance bases the other side of…
  • p. 196 …Lord Clancarty if the latt~r will give advance notice. I repeat the advice I gave…
  • p. 206 …Lord Clancarty if the latt€r will give advance notice. I repeat the advice I gave…
  • p. 212 …the Gallipots campaign in 1975, an en~; ire British regiment, the First Fourth Norfolks, -was advancing…
  • p. 214 …This was once explained by the claim that aliens had advance bases the other side of…
  • p. 477 …In advance of conducting a careful review of the documentation this sum remains an estimate only…
  • p. 481 …In advance of conducting a careful review of the documentation this sum remains an estimate only…
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
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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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