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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.
“Nevers”28 pages
- 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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Placed opposite is a draft closing address for the Lords
debate on UFOs, and a Background Note; due at your office by
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2. There is a temptation to equivocate about UFOs because of
the thought that vTe might one day make contact "VTi th people from
distant stars. Ho't-rever, the.re is nothing to indicate that
ufology is anything but claptrap and no evidence a·t all of 1alien
space craft'. The u~O industry h~s prospered from equivocation and,
lii th 1979 l)eing heralded as 'the year of the UFOs 1 , it seems very
proper for H~TI to inject some massive common sense into the business
and come out vri th an equtvoc·al attack on ufology. V/it;h the impact of
the film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", and the increasing
efforts of the UFO industry and increasing publicity gbren to i-ts
exponents, quite sensible people may begin to wonder whether there
might not be something in ufology, on the "where there's smoke there's
..
fire" principle. Less sensible people may be increasingly confused
and perhaps even worried, to the increasing profit and encouragement
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of the UFO industry. The subject will not go at>Tay, the Department
and probably Ministers are likely to find themselves increasingly
involved and under pressure for formal statements; and the popular
and UFO press are likely to make· all the mileage they can out of tho
Lords Debate, particularly if there are signn of equivocation or
phrases that co..n easily be misrepresented.
4. Aca:ordingly it is strongly recommentled that the Government take
an uneq_uj.vocal and uncompromisil:lf; line.
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