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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.
“Open Minds”11 pages
. And,: consequently, I think that the attitude or m:tnd ·w~hicb. must be ad<>Pted to_:c~-' ..:_ -- ~r41J phenomena is a quite opan attitude; that is, on~ ~hich does not consist. '-ox an apriori negation, as oilr ancestors in .previous centuriAs had to deny many things which seem to us today to be perfectly elementary, whether· it be piez~electricity, static electricity, to take only those twc), not to mention a certain number of phenomena connected with biolcgy. In fe.ct, all these scientific developments consist in the fact that at a decis:i..ve moment it is \~ seen thatAthe 50 years beforehand absolutely nothing was known or understood of the reality of the phenomena. ... I- Have there been cases in which fighter aircraft - Mirages for ~xample - have followed UFOs in France? MG- Well, in France, after examining all the reports, I don't ·i;hink -5•h_ I think that we had a certain number of radar observations in the 50s wr~ch were . in Aquitaine. For 10 minutes·, a quite inexplicable and still U."'lexplained phenomenon. Other observations on tno rad~·· screen could be explained by jamming phenomena and therefore consequently they were explained. But there are a small number left, but a small number which are quite unexplained.. Phenomena abroad are quite well known. There are phenomena-in the US; there is the Turin phenomenon and to reply very preci_sely to your question, the number of statements by French military pilots on these UFOs.is relatively BmP..ll compared ·with what one finds abroad. But all the same there are some on record. i- Are you in tou~h with other intrnational militarJ organisations,,.. Minister? II'
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