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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.
_, -~~!~~'r~:7.~··7"-~}~~~~~f~~~~~~~=-- ~- ·- ~ "· ~. -~-~: ., ~ ··: --;.,";:;.·,~:c..·-~~~~ft:·:-·:, , • FRmCH AIR FORCE VERSUS THE ~Os (5 Jlz Lt Col G:ton Alexis· -- Since last year, the specialist and g~neral press, radio :and televisio!l netwrks have been paying an increasing amount of attention to UFOs. Certainly, public interest in this subject has not yet reached the level of 1954, which caused two l-iPs, Messrs Jean Nocher and Leotard, to put a written q-aestion before the Secretary-of State for the Armed Forces, on October 22, concerning the role o.f' tho armed forces in this area. It is true that Mr Galley, the the%!. Minister of Defence, recalled it clearly at his interview on France-Inter~ In view of the currency of· the subjcc~ however, it seems useful tc recall the role of the air force in this matten to present the UFO dossier held by thea and to summarize the various theories and counter-tbeorie& which e~ist in .France. l,1:!..,.R;;.;,o;;,;;l;;ae;g..,;;o•f;...;t;;,;h;.;;;e;..;.:A;.::ir;:.,.;F:.o;,;r:;.,;c:;,;e:::...:iu=...,;.t;,::h~i=s;...Al:-.,;;,ea,_ At the end of the last world war, a scientific bureau was set up within the Air Ministry to follow the development of aero-apace techni~~eo and technologies and the progress in the knowledge of the aero-terestrial and spatial envh-onment in which aircraft and satellitas have their _being~ It has since become a fore- casting and development bureau but its roles have not changed. In 1951, when the wave of statements on the appearance o! "mysterious heavenly objects'' increased in volume in France, this bureau, on its O'l.'n initiative, opened ~ dossier on the subject in order better to appreciate the r~ture and location of these manifestations in French airspace. In 1954, the Secretary of State foy: the Armed Forces asked the air force to follow up this question on an official basis from that time on. An Instruction !rom the air force eta£! put th~a decision iuto conerete form. All high. commands were asked to communicate to the "air" scientific .bureau all · evidence of U?Oa coUect~d on their territory.
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