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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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!REDACTION ON ORIGINAL DOCUMENT. I
c.. From the Defence 1·1inistry the reports go to a Government
Organisation k:lO't:·n as. the Centre Nation~le d'Etude Spatial.
d. The reports are also fed into a computer so that they can,
be'hddcd tp the statistics of the problem11 •
Ue were also informed that 11so far the military have never found anything
of an~~gressive nature from the sightings 9 nor have th~ scientists been
able tu explain the phenomena". . ·
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4. It is not unlikely that there 'irlill be further Parliamentary Questions
about UFos especially as the subject ~:as depated recently in the United Nations
and I have been asked to obta~.n the follO\'Iing information:
a. a transcript of the bro.:1.dcast said to have beeh made by
1-!r .Galley in 1974. Son1e of the letters we have received allege
. that 11the French Air Hinistcr officially confirmed that ao-called
flying saucers exis~"·
b. ~!ha.t the ·views of the French Hinistry of Defence really are
on the subject of unidentified flying objects- an~ confirmation
that the procedu1·e as outlined at para 3 aboe is c.till fullo·.oted
when reports of UFOs are received from the public.
c. \ihat the nature of the invebt~gations is at the Centre
liationalc d'Etude Suat"ial illld \thether these studiea are Clltl-
ductcd under the di;,1ction of Honsieur Claude Porter.
5o I should be most grateful for y0ur comments as Goon as convenient please.
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