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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. 40 …But, unlike with the aircraft reported by the noble Earl, I have never seen one. I…
  • p. 43 …the United States of America which has never been made known to the public and even…
  • p. 45 …will be, Yes, and yet they have never seen one. We are asking you to believe…
  • p. 46 …selfish- ness and tendency to panic as never before since the days of the Crusades. The…
  • p. 47 …I never reached that standard of mathematics. However I know that Einstein believed that ele~tro…
  • p. 51 …The difficulty about such an explanation is that they never seem to come into actual contact…
  • p. 53 …some of the things he told us. Never- theless, I feel that it is of immense…
  • p. 58 …What sort of an interpretation would somebody who had H.L.8 Q never read about…
  • p. 59 …l should lib:1 have never seen ball lightning, but the 1 to go into the…
  • p. 60 …She said "I don't \Vant to, because it will spoil it all." They said " Never…
  • p. 62 …Of ;orts of sightings ~never it has been n·estigation they tttral phenomena pet to say…
  • p. 67 …1308 fro,m h;m ag~;n ~n many other occ";?"'· ' Why have they never tded…
  • p. 112 ..~ say that in the Air Force, for tne moment, they have never seemed to come directly…
  • p. 131 …informed that 11so far the military have never fonnd an-ything of D.nt1tjgressive nature fro…
  • p. 161 …Air Force, for tile moment, they have never seemed to come directly under air defence. ' . I…
  • p. 177 …informed that 11so far the military have never found anything of an~~gressive nature from the…
  • p. 187 …But it would be a brave man who said there could never, ever,be manned inter…
  • p. 190 …a cloud descended and picked up ~he regiment and it was never heard of again ••••••• (checking…
  • p. 192 …Let me assure this House that Her Majesty's Government has never been approached by people…
  • p. 209 …But it would be a brave man who said there could never, ever,be manned inter…
  • p. 212 …a cl6ud descended and picked up :the regiment and it was never heard of again ••••••• (checking…
  • p. 214 …Let me assure this Rouse that Her Majesty's Government has never been approached by people…
  • p. 300 …despite agreeing to complete a report form, this has never been returned - I wonder why? (13)
  • p. 320 …Mrllllllll stated that he had been a Met Officer for 8 years and had never~nything…
  • p. 368 …despite agreeing to complete a report form, this has never been returned - I wonder why? (13)
  • p. 399 …Significantly, the plot was never present on radar displays from the NATS sensors at Cromer and…
  • p. 417 …RAF Northwood was never involved in this event. confusion has arisen because Gt Yarmouth coastguard, referred…
  • p. 432 …Significantly, the plot was never present on radar displays from the NATS sensors at Cromer and…
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POLICE IN CONFIDENCE
8. At 0140 hours. I informed HQ P&SS (UK), Cp1
incident.
9. At 0142 hours, I informed RAF West Drayton, Lt Cdr
incident, and he confirmed that there was no military a
kind in UK airspace and there had not been since 0001 hours.
of the
the
any
10. At 0143 hours, the Senior Air Traffic Controller at Jairmingham
International Airport was contacted, and he confirmed that'_there were
no civilian aircraft in Cosford Airspace and had not been for some
hours.
11. At 0215 hours, OC RAF Police Flt and the Ord Off, Flt Ltlllllllro
were informed of the incident.
12. At 0250 hours. 111111111111 RAF Shawbury Met Office, con~acted Cpl
~ stated that~ two lights in the sky at RAF Shawbu~
~ts were first sighted approximately 15-20 kms away and~
observed them travel towards him over the. Airfield moving
~ally at hundreds of m;les per hour unlike any aircraft. He
described the lights as appearing to be searching for something. He
heard a 1ow humming noise and watched the object for 5 min es until it
disappeared from sight in a southerly direction. stated that
he had been a Met Officer for 8 years and had n anything like
it before.
13. At 0300 hours, Cpl ~tacted a- the Met Officer at
Bristol Airport, who sta~ similar~ been seen there at
0055 hours. He had in it i a 111 y put the 11 i ghts down to adverse mete·or
activity but in the light of the subsequent reports recorded it as
unidentified. ·
14. At 0310 hoursJ West Mercia Police were made awar~ of the further
reports and would contact Staffordshire and Avon & Somerset Forces to
correlate the reports.
15. At 0330 hours I resumed normal duties.
UNCLASSIFIED
POLICE IN CONFIDENCE

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