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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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--- ------ --~-. -~-- MG- No. Since 1970 we ha·ve sent back to the ~PA all the statallients and each ~ there is n etat.ment c~ something extraordinary happens, we c~tinue to send it to. them both through the pilots and through the gendarmerie.. But the Air Force considered, before 1970, that as there was, within the framework of its Air Defence mission, n~ danger, you see that it is not their mission after all to study these phenomena on the scientific level - we consider that . that is tho role of. the National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) where people _ sl\ch as M Poher, are carrying out a study which seems to us to be quite interesting to foll~w. But it does not come within ot~ province. Conaeq~entl~, we have no direct contact! though, I repeat, we make a contribution. Every tim~ something appears, we send it to tl~t specialist body which is working, basically,on behalf of the nation. I- How~ver, Minister, unidentified space objects in French air space seems to concern ~tio~ da!cnce? MG- Yes, that does concern national defence and I would say that that is why ~e are fo!.lo'tring this question to try and see if a:n:y correlations can be established. And I would say that, personally, I am rather interested in this phenomena of the correlations which M Poher has eA~lained, between the variations of the magnetic field and the passage of UFOs. There are a number of relatively disturbing phenomena which may, one day, have an explanation wllich is not an explanation of a S!)ecific flying object, which !l'..a.y be m~gnetic phenomena. But for the moment, we are obliged to recognise that there is something there which we do not understand. There is also the quite impressive increase in visual observations - I shall not go into descriptions which your listeners know, since many of them coincide - but the visual observations of luminous phenomena which are sometimes s,pherical, sometimes dvoid 6tc, and... which are characterised by extraordinarily swift movements, all th~sa are, I
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