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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.
. . . • agreed to talk and this is in fact·. the first time that a Minister for ':~;,.•e Armed Fo;ces has spok~n on this problem of UFOss We shall broadcast the whole of this interview this evening at 2030 hoUrs iri the. programme "No Panic". But in this 1300 hours news, we wanted to give you a very short ~xtract from this interview and you will see now, if M Galley speaks, it is not to "knock down" the problem of UFOs. M Robert Galley: "!t is true that there are things which are not understood and which are at present relatively unexplained, and I would even say that it is irrefutable that there are things today which are unexplained or poorly explained. In 1954 a section for considering and collecting evidence on these appearances of UFOs was set up in the Armed. Forces Ministry. I have run through a certain number of statements there and these statements developed up to 1970. There are about 50. 11 Jean•Claude Bourret "Minister, aircraft pilots, military radar operators have seen UFOs, but it illay be imas'ined that these are non-substantial air phenomena. Well, there are witnesses who state that they have seen UFOa land, who state that they have seen little creatures near these UFOs, little humanoid creatures. And your gendarmes, Minister, who have made inquiries, conclude in favour of the fiincerity of the witnesses. What do you think of that'?" 1i..!!2Eart Galley "Well, if you like, in this matter, I would be a great deal more cautious but I must say that if the listeners could see the collection.of reports from the gendarmerie 9 air gendarmerie, mobile gendarmerie, gendarmerie responsible for territorial inquiries, which have been handed over to the CNES by us, all the dvCl.'ments that we il.ad. It is actually rather disturbing. I think tbe.t the
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