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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. 187 …J from a hole in the earth, or the depths of the sea, as Lord Clancarty…
  • p. 193 …time continu~, or the depths of the sea, or an~there else they are supposed to…
  • p. 209 …a hole in the earth, or the depths of the sea, as Lord Clancarty has suggested.
  • p. 215 …time continu~, or the depths of the sea, or an~there else they are supposed to…
  • p. 260 …Both reporters are adamant that the helicopters were military - probably 'Sea Kings'? but again MOO (AIR…
  • p. 309 …Crymyn, Dy Time y on hill side approximately 1,000' above sea level. Attending sheep, observes…
  • p. 328 …Both reporters are adamant that the helicopters were military - probably 'Sea Kings'? but again MOD (AIR…
  • p. 380 …Lady on hill side approximately 1,000' above sea level. Attending sheep, observes 2 large white…
  • p. 394 …These lights were observed from a single location out at sea in the opposite direction to…
  • p. 397 …could be related to an incident at sea. The MRCC, unaware of any maritime activity, asked…
  • p. 398 …the dawn, involving a tanker vessel at sea, Boston and Skegness Police Forces and LATCC(Civil…
  • p. 415 …flares' about 20 minutes previously in Irish sea area. Aircraft 2, UK Air out of Manchester…
  • p. 427 …These lights were observed from a single location out at sea in the opposite direction to…
  • p. 430 …could be related to an incident at sea. The MRCC, unaware of any maritime activity, asked…
  • p. 431 …the dawn, involving a tanker vessel at sea, Boston and Skegness Police Forces and LATCC{Civil…
  • p. 446 …Isle of contact in which mi Irish Sea I - Aircr~ft when 30nm $ou nothing se…
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A •0 r).' ·· There has been ·no approach to Governments, and no direct
knowledge of UFOs by Governments. Lord Clancarty has an
answer: there is a great inter-Governmental conspiracy of
silence, initiated by the CIA.
15. ~he idea of the inter-Governmental conspiracy of silence
is at once the most astonishing and the most flattering claim
of all. On so few things can the Governments of the \Torld agree
unaminously, but they have all supposedly agreed to conceal the
evide~ce of UFOs from their peoples. Let me assure this House
that Her Majesty's Government has never been approached by
people from outer space.
16. There·is no internal consistency about the idea of this huge
number of sightings. If they have come from another solar system,
l'That is the point of this huge number of visits to our planet,
to no apparcut purpose? At best it seems wasteful. This was
once explained by the claim that aliens had advance bases the
other side of the moon. When that became untenable the bases
were assumed to be on another planet in our solar system. As
that has become untenable ever more fantastic explanations are
advanced. In a recent TV broadcast Lord Clancarty claimed that
the UFOs are based in a great hole in the earth. Elsewhere he
has claimed that they have bases in remote parts of South America,
or in the depths of the oceans. Becauseihese physical place~
have become untenable he has claime~ that (I quote): 'UFOs are
paranormal, that is from invisible universes'. They come from
•other space-time continua'. Another ufologist talks of 'space
mind/full mind/Nana•. Indeed the explanations get more and mor~
fantastic, and more and more incapable of e;. i;her proof or dis-
proof.
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