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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.

  • p. 13 …be exported to alien civilizations; as the densest planet in the solar system, the · Earth had…
  • p. 40 …knowledge were more advanced or if we had more information about the sightings in question. It…
  • p. 43 …It was just before the Americans had landed on the moon. Sir Frank said that he…
  • p. 54 …ls it not presumptuous, the argument goes, to suppose that elsewhere in space creatures more advanced…
  • p. 62 …One of the most advanced experimental stations at Jodrell Bank-just take these statistics on board…
  • p. 66 …the active list of the Navy at a very advanced age, had lived into the age…
  • p. 128 …The Government consider that, overall, the t protocols mark a valuable advance in humanitarian law applicable…
  • p. 155 …The/Government consider that, overall, the t~ protocols mark a valuable advance in humanitarian law applicable…
  • p. 190 …the Gallipots campaign in 1975, an en~; ire British regiment, the First Fotirth Norfolks, -was advancing…
  • p. 192 …This was once explained by the claim that aliens had advance bases the other side of…
  • p. 196 …Lord Clancarty if the latt~r will give advance notice. I repeat the advice I gave…
  • p. 206 …Lord Clancarty if the latt€r will give advance notice. I repeat the advice I gave…
  • p. 212 …the Gallipots campaign in 1975, an en~; ire British regiment, the First Fourth Norfolks, -was advancing…
  • p. 214 …This was once explained by the claim that aliens had advance bases the other side of…
  • p. 477 …In advance of conducting a careful review of the documentation this sum remains an estimate only…
  • p. 481 …In advance of conducting a careful review of the documentation this sum remains an estimate only…
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