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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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.·e· · RER1RT OF AN UNIDElfT.IFIED FLYING OBJECT
r----------------------------~------~~-----.-.----------------~·~------~-
A ·· D ~... m· d n..- .~.. · G' .• 130300Z to 130410Z SEP 80. • .. a"iie, ;.L;J.me an .uw..·a"J.on 0•
Sig:Oting.
B. DESCRIPTION OF OBJEC~
t~umber·oi~ec~s 7 si~o 7
. shapa, colour, brightness)
c. ·. EXACT POSITION OF OBSERVER
"{'.Loca·ti"o':"\ 1 iudoo7./out.door;
sta..~iont·~· 1 moving)
D. HOH OBSERVED
E.
·(lifaleed eye 7 binoculars,· ·
other optical devices,
s·till o=r movie)
D:CHECTION IN \·JHICH OBJECT
J;iYii8ii• • oEr..;J.~
..(A1an<iillm may ba mo=re
u~aful than a badly estimated
bearing)
Circle of 4 bright lrghts .
Cone shaped changing to '
Diamond shaped. ·
Outdoors, Moving slowly uptb,,
speeds of 60 MPH.
Naked eye.
movir1~ in an EasterlY directio-_
· from Leeds to York •.
~---------------------------------·~~----------------------------~
'II. ANGLE OF SIGHT
·~st~mated-helghts are Very Low to 2000 1
unreliable)
~---_,...__.-.-~
G. DISTANCE I
J.
Ti3y reference to knowa ·
landraark)
l"i0VE.l'1ENTS
TUhanges ~n E, F and G may
be of more uae than est!~atea
ot course and speed)
MET CONDITIONS DURING
TJiJBi?.iiVT!ZIOT::s .....-.-
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'.<:J.o\:'.0.::;, b.qz9, miet e~c)
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None
No changes in course but
was var1able.
Gale conditions in area.
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speed;
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