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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.

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  • p. 66 …the nuclear submarine, having hegun his first sea-going voyage under sail. That was the band…
  • p. 67 …by the su organisations, balloono;. ~om logical sea•chli beam itself can of lirrht in th…
  • p. 68 …pastimes to sit on the prom:;nadc and \Vatch it go down over tlw sea. Many…
  • p. 187 …J from a hole in the earth, or the depths of the sea, as Lord Clancarty…
  • p. 193 …time continu~, or the depths of the sea, or an~there else they are supposed to…
  • p. 209 …a hole in the earth, or the depths of the sea, as Lord Clancarty has suggested.
  • p. 215 …time continu~, or the depths of the sea, or an~there else they are supposed to…
  • p. 260 …Both reporters are adamant that the helicopters were military - probably 'Sea Kings'? but again MOO (AIR…
  • p. 309 …Crymyn, Dy Time y on hill side approximately 1,000' above sea level. Attending sheep, observes…
  • p. 328 …Both reporters are adamant that the helicopters were military - probably 'Sea Kings'? but again MOD (AIR…
  • p. 380 …Lady on hill side approximately 1,000' above sea level. Attending sheep, observes 2 large white…
  • p. 394 …These lights were observed from a single location out at sea in the opposite direction to…
  • p. 397 …could be related to an incident at sea. The MRCC, unaware of any maritime activity, asked…
  • p. 398 …the dawn, involving a tanker vessel at sea, Boston and Skegness Police Forces and LATCC(Civil…
  • p. 415 …flares' about 20 minutes previously in Irish sea area. Aircraft 2, UK Air out of Manchester…
  • p. 427 …These lights were observed from a single location out at sea in the opposite direction to…
  • p. 430 …could be related to an incident at sea. The MRCC, unaware of any maritime activity, asked…
  • p. 431 …the dawn, involving a tanker vessel at sea, Boston and Skegness Police Forces and LATCC{Civil…
  • p. 446 …Isle of contact in which mi Irish Sea I - Aircr~ft when 30nm $ou nothing se…
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• ce Studies through us - all the documents that we bad - it is actually
~te disturbing. I think that the gendarmes .are serious people and that when
the gen~es make a report, they do not do it hapbazarciq,· and that ~f there
were only one or two, you could say that the gendarmes' sincerity was suspect.
But I must say that there are a great number of gendarmes' reports which are
very varied. It should be said that when they report incidents, if you like,
which have been reported to them, few of them, but all the same some, report
phenomena at ground level, you know, changes in the ground. All thie, if you
like, is still quite fragmented. I think, to conclude on this matter, that
we must adopt an extremely open attitude of mind to all this, not put into
doubt the sincerity of people, some of whom are obviously sincere, but at the
moment it is really far too soon to draw the least conclusion.
Armed Forces Public Relations Information Service
1st Division Pario 21 February 1974
Summary - Analysis Office
Analysis Sheet of the Sp~ken Press Interview
Station: France Inter
Time
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.. 21 February 1974
1300 hours
Subject: Interview with M Galley on UFOs.
Jean-Claude Bourret, for the first time a member of the government is breaking
tho ~all of silence, a silence which politicians assume when the subject
under discussion is UFOs, in other words, flying saucers:
M Robert Galley
Actually the Minister responsible for National Defence, that is, a man who
knows the problems of air defence since ~s concern air defence first of all,

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