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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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. -•• • 1 17. The most telling argument of all is that the scientific community is unmoved by the claims of ufology. A visitor from tM"'\ outer space - or from another space time continu~, or the depths of the sea, or an~there else they are supposed to be one hiding - would be/of the greatest events in human history, and the greatest scientific event. You would expect serious and sensible scientists to be devoting much time and effort to making contact with these supposed space people. The scientific community is as unimpressed as the Government~ If the ufologists claim that the Government has gagged the scientific community, it would be as amazing as the alleged conspiraCY. of silence between Governments. IS. One could gG on in~efinitely trying to chase the elusive - indeed devious - arguments of the ufologists. Yes, there has been ~n ·increase in the number of 'sightings' reported to the Government: the biggest upsurges occurred when the BBC put out a programme on UFOs, and when the Daily Express launched a campaign in connection with the film premiere of 'Close Encotinters of the Third Kind'. No, the Government is not in the least con- earned by the increases. LAs has been saii7 Grenada is financing a study into UFOs, and the United Nations has, in a moment of casualness, given that · ,::~i;udy a vague sort of recognition,and one or two other countries have offered to con- tribute reports. Her YAjest~'s Government, if it contributes at all, will contribute on the lines of my speech. 19. There are tens of thousands of strange things to see in the s1ry. It has become f~shionable to call these things 'UFOs' • . There are perfectly sensible explanations fc:.- the8e sight1.ngs o The ufologist explanations are not sensible at all. In 1968
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