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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
-t say, phe~omena to which a certain a:nou.~t of attention t~r.1st be given, but . .~ aa_Y that in the Air Force, for tile moment, they have never seemed to come directly under air defence. ' . I- if you were asked, for example, to nake a few of your radars. available to a few scientists, or at least the observatio~s made by the radar operators, what would be your reply? MG- Oh, I would reply that we have no reason not to inform air defence, if there were. anomalies on the r~dars, of the elements which ~fair defence does not manage to explain everything, I think that air defence would be bound to rep~rt these unusual or unorthodox observations to a scientific authority Which would be entrusted with them. That is what we do at the moment since I have there all the reports of observations which could be, which come from the Air Force, the gendarmerie, from all the.military authorities and we pass them on very dirGctly. I- Weli, you have mentioned the Gendarmerie. France Inter listeners have already heard many reports from gendarmes, offering the good faith of witnesses when these witnesses state, not that they have seen unidentified luminous phenomena in the sky which can always act~ly be interpreted as something unsubstantial, but unknown by our natural science, but much more exact phenomena, since there are landings with traces left in the ground. And th~ gendarmes conclude them in favour of the good faith of the witnesses who state they have seen, not only UFO landil;l.gs sometimes, but little creatures. MG- Ah, well, on this matter, I shall be a great deal more cautious. But I must say that if your listeners could see the collection of reports from the genda1'111erie - Air Gendarmerie, mobile gendarmerie, gen~armerie responsible for ~· territorial inquiries - which have been passed on to the National Centre for 4
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