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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.

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  • p. 40 …But, unlike with the aircraft reported by the noble Earl, I have never seen one. I…
  • p. 43 …the United States of America which has never been made known to the public and even…
  • p. 45 …will be, Yes, and yet they have never seen one. We are asking you to believe…
  • p. 46 …selfish- ness and tendency to panic as never before since the days of the Crusades. The…
  • p. 47 …I never reached that standard of mathematics. However I know that Einstein believed that ele~tro…
  • p. 51 …The difficulty about such an explanation is that they never seem to come into actual contact…
  • p. 53 …some of the things he told us. Never- theless, I feel that it is of immense…
  • p. 58 …What sort of an interpretation would somebody who had H.L.8 Q never read about…
  • p. 59 …l should lib:1 have never seen ball lightning, but the 1 to go into the…
  • p. 60 …She said "I don't \Vant to, because it will spoil it all." They said " Never…
  • p. 62 …Of ;orts of sightings ~never it has been n·estigation they tttral phenomena pet to say…
  • p. 67 …1308 fro,m h;m ag~;n ~n many other occ";?"'· ' Why have they never tded…
  • p. 112 ..~ say that in the Air Force, for tne moment, they have never seemed to come directly…
  • p. 131 …informed that 11so far the military have never fonnd an-ything of D.nt1tjgressive nature fro…
  • p. 161 …Air Force, for tile moment, they have never seemed to come directly under air defence. ' . I…
  • p. 177 …informed that 11so far the military have never found anything of an~~gressive nature from the…
  • p. 187 …But it would be a brave man who said there could never, ever,be manned inter…
  • p. 190 …a cloud descended and picked up ~he regiment and it was never heard of again ••••••• (checking…
  • p. 192 …Let me assure this House that Her Majesty's Government has never been approached by people…
  • p. 209 …But it would be a brave man who said there could never, ever,be manned inter…
  • p. 212 …a cl6ud descended and picked up :the regiment and it was never heard of again ••••••• (checking…
  • p. 214 …Let me assure this Rouse that Her Majesty's Government has never been approached by people…
  • p. 300 …despite agreeing to complete a report form, this has never been returned - I wonder why? (13)
  • p. 320 …Mrllllllll stated that he had been a Met Officer for 8 years and had never~nything…
  • p. 368 …despite agreeing to complete a report form, this has never been returned - I wonder why? (13)
  • p. 399 …Significantly, the plot was never present on radar displays from the NATS sensors at Cromer and…
  • p. 417 …RAF Northwood was never involved in this event. confusion has arisen because Gt Yarmouth coastguard, referred…
  • p. 432 …Significantly, the plot was never present on radar displays from the NATS sensors at Cromer and…
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~vt identical,. as the following ta~le shows:
c SPEED OF MOVEl-iENT TRAJECTORY
.
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
,
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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