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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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~ .. • researchers ; 5% * Civilian and military pilots : 10 (of whom less · than 1% for military pilots) Engineers : 12% • Military personnel 1~ (of whom less than 1.» f9r military air defence controllers). 0 worlanen 15% farmers 15% shepherds'5% In other cour~tries observations mads by civilian and military pilots, milita.~ personnel a.n.d engineers are clearly higher. On the other band they are less numerous among workmen, technicians and farmers. Concerning the ages of the observers, the following distribution is noted, also identir;al with the distribution noted in other countries and seemingly proportional to the age-groups of the French population: 10% less than 13 years old 18% between 13 and 20 '6~ bebween 21 and 59 8% over 6o Having made the acquaintance of the observers, questions must be raised concerning the value of their observations and the credibili+.y to be afforded to them. In the vast majority of cases it can be said that the observers were quite sincere; thair identity was known in three q~ters of the cases. Sinco 1954, those observations have been the subject of reports made by the police to the Air force staff. As a general rule, observations were made by more t~n one adult. Finally, to judge from the distribution of observers .:nrer a map of France Je see that the number of observations·is (fortuitously or otherwise) proportional to the density of the population • . We also note a clear improvement in the description of the phen~enon. llhen it is a question of:amlysing this information and, especial,ly', -.9?~~ting it
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