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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. 47 …Therefore, do not be so ready to scoff at UFOs ·when, in ar~other mon:ent…
  • p. 147 …Whether they are aware that Mon~ieur Robert Galley, the then French Minister of Defence, in…
  • p. 181 …the then French lJti.nister o~ Defence, Mons;eur Robert Galley, was inter- viewed by Jean…
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~vt identical,. as the following ta~le shows:
c SPEED OF MOVEl-iENT TRAJECTORY
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SUPERSONIC 16% STRAIGHT LINE 3.5%
FAST (LIKE AIRCRAFT) *SUCCESSIVELY ~lOVING AND ) 1~ ABNORMAL TRAJECTORIES (STOPS,
FAST ) 42% ARABESQUES /jrrjJ DISAPPEARANCE) 45%
sww 22% LANDING OR
MOTIONLESS 11% STATIONARY "PHASE" 20J'
...
*This is a literal translation of the words ~ the text. It is difficult to knoM
what the writer means by 11successivement mobile et rapidfl - unless "mobile"
(moving} is, in fact, a misprint for "immobile" (motionless) whereupon the entry
would read "successively motionless and fast" which would make slightly better
sense.
Emissions observed .•
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SOUND TFERHAL EFFECTS ·LWJ:NOtJSAND THERMAL- SMELL
EFFECTS
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VA..tUOUS NOISES 146 NO EFFECT LUMINOUS ".'AR!OUS
OBSERVED 9?.2716 PARALYSING RAY 0.46% SMEL!.S 1.3~
WHISTLING 1,;"% EFFEv"'T CORRELATION NONE 98.6'-1%
OBSERVED 1.37% COLOUR
SPEED 0.4~
HUNMING -~ EFFECT WITE 1.. 3$}6 NONE 92.o8%
TRACES
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SILENCE I ?CJ;6·
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Eff9cts on observers and various effects
In France, apart fro~ the effect of surprise, only minor effects were recorded
on observers who reported on their observations to the police. None of them was
tra~atized b7 his experience nor underwent any psychological change.
To date, none of them claims to have received a "mission" or has created any
ideological group basad on the claim that .he is the prophetic mouthpiece of the
11appar1tion11 •
Similarly domestic animals seem only slightly disturbed by the phenome.:Wm.. . .. . . . ~ . .
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