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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.

  • p. 69 …There was nothing at all to suggest that the unexplained sig:hti.ags were alien spacecraft…
  • p. 190 …the most remarkable and unexplained mysteries of k, modern times•. He claims that during the Gallipots…
  • p. 212 …the ufologista; who ad~ without critical scrutiny, to their huge files of 'reported sightings and landi…
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• Two· cases near an urban are-a
• Six cases near isolated dwellings.
• Twelve cases in an isolated region without any dwellings.
Of these twenty cases, only eight mention traces of imprints ill the gt•ound.
Characteristics of the phenomenon
The least that can be said is that the form of the phenomena observed, their
dimensions,' colou.rsetc, are of the most variable, as can be j'ldged fromthe
following tables.
-FORM COLOUR NATURE OF LUMINOSITY I
VARIOUS 1~ FIXED BUW VERY VARIOUS 1'?% VARIOUS 1~
PIN-POINTS 9% CHANGING 1'7% NON LUMINOUS 1%
·~tED ~ METALLI<; li'i't GLOWING 1CY.A)
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OVOID 14% WHITE 17% BRIGHT 1,5%
CIGAR SHAPE, CYLINDER 1~ ORANG~ 1fa BRILLIANT 18%
ROUND, CIRCULAR, RED 16% LUMINOUS 4~
SPmmiCAL 30%
DISCS 1$
I r ~
Dimensions
Here again we find a very wide range of data •. Each. case seems to be a special
case. In 38.64% t:r..ere is no information. In 41.8~ there is an apparent
diame~er which cannot be restituted because of inaccuracy over distance. In ~
of cases, the diameter is of the order of 1 meter. In 4.5PJ of cases, of the
order of 7 to 10 meters. In the other cases it varies between 1 meter and 70 meters.
Speed and traJ.:ectoq ...
~nis speed variation observed inthe movements of the phenomena observed can be. .
explained by the fact ~hat it corresponds to portions of the trajectory which are

Cases discussed

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