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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. 39 …space ~hips were seen over into the sea. ~
vanous parts of the USSR by astronomers
and…
- p. 66 …the nuclear submarine,
having hegun his first sea-going voyage
under sail. That was the band…
- p. 67 …by the su
organisations,
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logical sea•chli
beam itself can
of lirrht in th…
- p. 68 …pastimes to sit on the prom:;nadc and
\Vatch it go down over tlw sea.
Many…
- 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,
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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
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In sum, we cannot prove that all or even most of these so-
called aightings were not UFOs. But we can say that there is a
great variety of phenomena in the skies for which there are
. perfectly ordinary explanations. We have rio reason to believe
that the so-called UFOs are attributed to anything but these same
causes.
10. But what of these famous arrivals of UFOs, claimed to be
fu~ly documented and authenticated by many witnesses. On
scrutiny they tend to be elusive. I will select one, which
Lord Clancarty has described in his book Mysterious Visitors
as •one of the most remarkable and unexplained mysteries of
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modern times•. He claims that during the Gallipots campaign
in 1975, an en~; ire British regiment, the First Fourth Norfolks,
-was advancing towards Hill 60: a cl6ud descended and picked up
:the regiment and it was never heard of again ••••••• (checking
with Army Historical Branch)
11. As I h~ve indicated,there is no criticism of those who
accurately report phenomena. The criticism is of over-readiness
to call them ~UFOs', and to transpose that into 'alien space
craft'. Thb reports are passed without critical scrutiny to
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the ufologista; who ad~ without critical scrutiny, to their
huge files of 'reported sightings and landi~s'.
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