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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.
“Scientific American”7 pages
.. ~ (3) On Thursday 1st April 1993, I received at the British name, address and telephone number of from Pentregalar, Dyfed, who had also seen the two very bright lights in flight across a.W.Wales at l.lOam on Wednesday 31st Narch 1993. At this point, I now had some seven or eight reports, mostly police officers, who had all observed two very bright white lights or objects, travelling across the ni~ht sky from approximately N.W to S.E. in complete silence and trailing some form of illuminated vapour trail behind them I it! What was noticeable about these sightings, was that all the persons I spoke too had great difficulty in describing the 'trails' and used the term vapour as a simply means of doing so. What was also noted was the fact that whatever it was that was trailing behind the objects, it was 'illuminated' or 'lit up' by some means or other. One person described them as 'like car head light beams shining backwards, another thought they looked like long thin fluorescent light tubes! Because of the extraordinary similarity between the reports, it was obvious to me that at approximately l.lOam on the morning of the 31st March 1993, an object of enormous size had crossed N.W.Wales, S.Wales, N.Oevon, Cornwall and E. Devon. During its flight it had descended from a gceat height over N.W.Wales to about 2,000' above the Bristol Channel and hovered at the same height north of Liskeard. from there it ascended to approximately 10,000' over Plymouth and subsequently E. Devon. From here I felt sure it must have travelled further east or south easterly and decided therefore to try and obtain some additional sightings by use of the local press. I contacted the ~aunton Gazette and Honiton News, both weekly papers and gave them some details of the events of Wednesday 31st. /4
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