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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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Main Building Wi;ii:c:1c:dl ~ondon Telephone 01-218 (Dirc::t Dialling) Oi -218 SOOO . (Swi~chboa:d) Britich E:n'baosy ,5, Rue du Faubourg St IIono:::-e Paris (8e) SVV1A 2HB Your rcfere.rico Our reference . D/S4(Air)B/l. Date 13 Decer.1b~r 1977 \ 1. You probo.bly l~"lO'ol tha.t the Hinistry of Defenco receives quite n considero.blc correspo.adencc on the subject of Unidentified Flyi:1g Objects including details of 11sightingu 11 • \:Fe t-311 the public that we ....:,: ~ve not the resources to co~duct a full scientific c~qui:::-y ir.to these phcnor'ler:.a although we bring the reportu to the attention of the S!JOCialist staffo of the D-3partmcn.t to r:.a.k.e sure that the objects thought: to have b&en seen hm·~ no bearin,.j on the n3.t.ional dcff~nceso 'de do not pl·es!J the iuvcstisation to "i.;he point of positive· iudentificc.tion. but ~<:t."ly oi the 11ll'lidcatified" object::; are in fact~ v.il~~raft sc~m fren: U:."1.usual angleo or v.nder unusual co:!ldi tio!!s. · 2. As you will oee from the enclosed extracts free F~oardt a number of queo',ions have boen ns~ccd in the House of Lord£; in tha last few days concerning an interview whic!l. l!onsieur l:.obert G<Uloy 9 tne ion:;er French Hinistcr of Defsncc is said to have given on Franco--inter radiry on · 21 Fcbl!~ary 19711-. There are also references to tho !-I3.tional c~mtre :for Space Studies which it; said to·have set up a sectio.n uuC.er the d.il·ection of J.1onsieur Claude Po.h Qr to study unid~ntifieci fl~ins objects. 3., A member of the puolic \'trote to HOD nbout tl:c alleged :::-adic interview last year nnd l:hcn. S4(Air) consulted your staff by telephone in June 1976 tre formed th'3 ir.:1pression that the J:rench Go"tel'r'..ment hsd not emba:::-ked ol": any pv.rticular initi.:.tive in tni;3 field~ A note rc~.de C!l. c•ur files nt the tine r.mggo<3ta thnt French practice is as follo'i~s: a. reports fro~ the public go in the first ~nstunce to the · Gendartwrie r:llo if nccesssr:r intcr;.·iew cb~:ervers nnd take atatcmcnts b. The Gendarw::::rie p~ss en the reyorts to the Fre::1ch Hinistry of ]);ft.nce (.~-~ir) 'r!ho study tho :r.ilit:ary i~!plicaticns b;,· ch~c!::5.. ~::; r:'.rl ,_!''::; -~.i~:-~:-~f~ ... -:-··~·':" 0 :~.~ s ~~..! r" ,....., ~ ~~~~ '-:~~ ~~"'.,...:..tld'?r -~Y scicntifj c aspects \:hich rJ.J.:.!' hnvc n bcariv..g on mili ta!-y affairs.
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