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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.
“The Advance”16 pages
e.12. I am sure no-one will deny that at the'least- there are possible rational explanations for the phenomena. Let us now look at the other side of the coin, the range of explanations ·offered by Lord Clancarty and other ufologi.sts - it is a wide and confusing range, for there are as many different explanations as.there are ufologists. 13. Lord Cla~carty has been reported as claiming there have been some 80,000 sightings. Other ufologists would put the figure even higher. Now, there is a strange thing about these huge numbers. To put it in simple terms: either these •space people' prefer to keep out of the way, or they don't. If they prefer to keep out of the way, we must assume that the number of 'sightings' is a tiny proportion of the actual UFO 'sorties•, which must run into ·.· millions. If they don • t one would expect some unmistakable appearances. 14. But let us look at their strange track record: ~· Not a single artefact has been produced -not a single extra-terrestial ch~p has dropped an extra-terrestial spanner; no bent piecess no prange from perhaps millions of sorties, no nothing. Lord Clancarty has an answer: the. CIA has hidden them all. h. There is no correlative evidence on radar of this huge number of movements. C. There has been no radic contact (far easier than space travel) and no evidence on radioo tf.There have been no convincing photographs, in these days when so many p~ople carry cameras. 1! 1: rf t[ I I I!
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