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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.
“RAF Neatishead”18 pages
•• ~··There has been·no app~oach to Governments, and no direct knowledge of UFOs by Governments. Lord Clancarty has an answer: there is a great inter-Governmental conspiracy of s ilence, initiated by the CIA. 15. ~he idea of the inter-Governmental conspiracy of silence is at once the most astonishing and the most flattering claim of all. On so few things can the Governmentsof the world agree unaminously, but they have all supposedly agreed to conceal the evide~ce of UFOs from their peoples. Let me assure this Rouse that Her Majesty's Government has never been approached by people from outer space. 16. There·is no internal consistency about the idea of this huge nwmber of sightings. If they have.come from another solar system, l'rhat is the point of this huge number of visits to our planet, to no apparcut purpose? At best it seems wasteful. This was once explained by the claim that aliens had advance bases the other side of the moon. When that became untenable the bases were assumed to be on another planet in our solar system. As that has become untenable ever more fantastic explanations are advanced. In a recent TV broadcast Lord Clancarty claimed that th~ UFOs are based in a great hole in the ·earth. Elsewhere he has claimed that they have bases in remote parts of South America, or in the depths of the oceans. Because1hese physical place~ have become untenable he has claime~ that (I quote): 'UFOs are paranormal, that is from invisible universes'. They come from •other space-time continua'. Another ufologist talks of 'space mind/full mind/¥~na'. Indeed the explanations get more and mor~ fantastic, and more and more incapable of ej. iiher proof or dis- proof. I1 I1 i iI ! i I II r f! ti !I ~
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