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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.
“UFO Files”38 pages
- p. 6 …Copy of the file relating to a UFO report made by-nd- near
Winchester, Hampshire on…
- p. 7 …Files D/DS8/75/2/5 Part B (UFO Reports-August to November 1980) and D…
- p. 9 …ofLords Debate on UFOs, on 18 January 1979.
On examining our files we have discovered a…
- p. 17 …SPfCIFIC ACTION ON UFO'S AND PRECLUDES THE INSCRIPTJOr OF A
SETARATE UFO ITEM ON NEXT…
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- p. 35 …Our files contain reports and Nick Pope's letters to Dl55 and notes about D Air…
- p. 69 …Galley had said
that UFOs were real but that he, the
Minister, did not know where…
- p. 70 …It cfo!lows UFOs, the truth is simple. There really
that the files must remain closed…
- p. 134 …We may be in for a long
hau1 on UFOs. The reply to the Earl will…
- p. 185 …Copies of enclosures 1/1, 1/2,1/3,1/4 from file Dl55/1 08…
- p. 190 …We have rio reason to believe
that the so-called UFOs are attributed to anything but…
- p. 212 …We have rio reason to believe
that the so-called UFOs are attributed to anything but…
- p. 303 …I received a non Ufo
report from a gentleman (name on file) who is a recently…
- p. 371 …I received a non Ufo
report from a gentleman (name on file) who is a recently…
- p. 451 DR CLARKE- REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
Request 1
Copy of the file relating to a UFO report…
- p. 453 …1977) on the UN debate on
UFOs. (Unclassified)
18. File note dated 16 Dec 1977 seying…
- p. 454 …French handling of UFO reports. (Unclassified)
29. Draft reply, background note and file minutes concerning Lord…
- p. 455 …There is one file D/Sec(AS)12/7- Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs)- Alleged
UFO incident…
- p. 456 …The file
contains no real conclusion to these events and Mr Pope was eventually told by…
- p. 460 …I am currently making - for access to UFO files currently
'closed' under the 30 year rule…
- p. 462 …UFO report made by
Winchester, Hampshire on 14 November 1976.
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and
I have now received file…
- p. 463 …UFO report files that we have
recalled from archives show that UFO reports were once filed…
- p. 464 I am sorry we are unable to locate the file(s) you requested on the information…
- p. 466 …Lords debate on UFOs, on 18 January 1979. We had two files on this,
but these…
- p. 467 …Lords debate on UFOs, on 18 January 1979. We had two files on this, but these…
- p. 468 REQUISITION FOR A REGISTERED FILE
To:-DR2a2
File Nos:
(1) D/DS8/75/3 UFOs- Parliamentary…
- p. 470 …Ifthe UFO reports
y, \.j.tf' '\,....,.~V'tt contains are filed in chronologie~! order as is…
- p. 471 …The file reference D/Sec(AS)1217 UFOs, alleged UFO incident, 31st March 1993, appears
0…
- p. 472 …Does your branch retain a
list of UFO files that have been destroyed, and the reasons…
- p. 474 …DAO ADGE1
Subject: UFO
Importance: Low
Sir
Unfortunately, Neatishead destroyed their files (and therefore any transcript…
- p. 476 …Copy of the file relating to a UFO report made and -near
Winchester, Hampshire, on 14…
- p. 477 …file which may contain relevant information.
D/Sec(AS)12/7- Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs)- Alleged…
- p. 478 …The files concerned are:
D/DSS/75/2/2 Part L (1980) UFO Reports: Edited
D…
- p. 480 …This was produced because it was
believed that some UFO files might have been over looked…
- p. 482 . . ~·.
MOD Form 262E
REQUISITION FORA REGISTERED FILE
To:-DR2a2
File Nos:
1) D/DS8/7517 PtA…
- p. 486 …We have a file on these events, but I know DIS also have a file D…
- p. 487 …The file I need is PRO reference AIR 2/18977 UFO Reports- due for release in…
- p. 489 …Copy of the file relating to a UFO report made by
near Winch~ster, ~am~s…
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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
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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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