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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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-•._,.'~ ~m;W WITH M_ RODERT GA'I:·W!Y~ MINIST~ FOrt THE ARHED FORCES £N FRANCE-L~'l'J!!_;.~ -~--- ~.: ~21 l'EBRUARY 1971~ AT 2030 HOURS · ~--~ - - • Interviewer . \i\ Go --: M. ;Galley I- Minister, you have granted France-Inter an interview which will certainly . be significant because it is the first time that a Minister for the Armed Forces has agreed to speak about the problem of UFOs. Do you have information which allows you to answer the questions which the listeners are asking, · information which we know nothing about? MG- Well, I don't know about that, because I have spent a necessarily . -relatively limited time on that question, though it is a question which I must say has al~ays interested me. But •••• and consequently I cannot knew everything that has been said during your broadcasts which I know certain people in the Armed Forces Ministry follow assiduously. What I <ieeply believe is that we must adopt a strict, extr~mely open attitude to these phenomena. A certain amount of progress·pas been made in the human race by the fact that attempts have been made to explain the inexplicable. Well, in these air phenomena, these visual phenomena - I say no more - that are grouped together under the term UFOs, it is certain that there are things which are not understood and which are at present relatively unexplained. And I shall even say that there are things today which are unexplained or poo:;:oly explained. In 1954 a section for considering and collecting evidence on the appearance of UFOs was set up in the Armed Forces Ministry. I ran through a certain number of statements and these statements developed up to 1970. Thera are about 50. Amongst the first things \.s found a report of a personal observation by Lt Jean Demery of the 107th Arty Brigade (?B.A.) at Villacoublay, dated 20 November 1953. There are reports by gen~es, the~e are some report of observatious by pilots, by personnel who are air centre heads; a fair amount of information the concentration of which was_quite disturbing in 1954. 1
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