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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.
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(13) At approx 10.30pm, s standing outside his.home at Bishops Lydeard when he noticed a brightly lit object approaching from the south. At arms length he describes the object as about the size of a Zippo Lighter and had 6 rows of I lights numbering 30 in all. They were in two sections of 15 :hi0 ~r; ~p~ed ~n ~ i~) of 5 lights in each. The objects speed was similar to a jet aircraft and appeared to be at a high altitude. Because of this d the object in sight for nearly 15 minutes before it disappeared to the north. Some 5 minutes after the event observed a civil airliner on the same course at approx the same altitude and he was able to identify this without any problem. The 5th report came from who lives in Taunton, Somerset. At approx 10.20pm ( maybe a bit later) he observed 2 white lights, apparently connected, flying parallel to each other in an easterly direction. Again there was no noise from the objects and they appeared to be moving very fast. He gave the length of his sighting as 2 minutes and is convinced it /they was not an aircraft. The 6th and last report for this evening, came from lllllllfkho lives at Milverton, Devon. At sometime before midnight - about 11.30pm, he saw 2 groups of lights flying along side each other. He describes them as 2 objects with 3 lights in a triangular formation. He says that they were moving very fast and watched them for 2 minutes before they disappeared in a south westerly direction. /14
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