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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. 255 …Following this report, I contacted the Police Control Headquarters at Exeter, Devon and was informed by…
  • p. 256 …a report of this event with their headquarters. After this call, I contacted the Plymouth police…
  • p. 285 …This type of report need not be referred to Headquarters and may be forwarded direct to…
  • p. 323 …Following this report, I contacted the Police Control Headquarters at Exeter, Devon and was informed by…
  • p. 324 …a report of this event with their headquarters. After this call, I contacted the Plymouth police…
  • p. 353 …This type of report need not be referred to Headquarters and may be forwarded direct to…
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... Form MG1.1A(T)
Continuation sheet No
Continuation of Statement of
approximately 100 yards the Liskeard side of the lay by outside Lantoom
Quarry, map ref 230 650.
My view of these objects was very good; the sky being clear, and they
continued their ~scent still at an identical speed to each other and still
on a parallel course. I realised that they were not a~.cerding vertically
but rather cul'ving overhead and heading due South. As they gained in
height the vapot.:r trails became much more pronounced. I wc;s still unable
to estimate their height because of their small size (ider.tical to a star
in the night sky) but I believe they we:·re very high. As they passed
directly overhead at "12 o'clock high", the heavens at this point were
bright and moonlit and I could see that there was nothing bet.we:en ·the
objects apart from empty sky. They we:re definitely twc separate objects.
At abcut this time I became aware of what I be:lieved tc be: a third
object visible only by its vapour trail which was considerably less otvious
than the vapo~;r trails of the: other two objects. This third object seemed
to be travelling to the right hc:.nd side of the left haP.d obejct (as I was
looking up), and slightly to the rear of it. It maintained the identical
speed and parallel course of the other objects.
As the objects continued on a dead straight north south course, they •·.
seemed to be travelling at a similar speed to a high flying passenger jet
aircraft. I lost sight of them owing to the high ground of the quarry
immediately or. my left.
· During the: total duration of this sighting, which was between 45
secor.ds and minute, my observation of these objects was continuo~.:s and
uninterrupted. There was no sound wr... atever, the: night being ver·y still
with no traffic.
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