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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. 7 …I apologise for the quality of the Facsimile message from RAF Neatishead. We have checked with…
  • p. 313 …Sector Operations Centre (South) at RAF Neatishead have told D Air Def's staff that nothing…
  • p. 381 …Sector Operations Centre (South) at RAF Neatishead have told D Air Def's staff that nothing…
  • p. 394 …The lights observed from Skegness were captured on video which is being sent to RAF Neatishead…
  • p. 397 …RAF Neatishead if any aircraft activity was present on the radar in that area; Neatishead had…
  • p. 398 …Meanwhile, CRC Neatishead's inquiries had revealed no sign of air movements or military exercises in…
  • p. 417 …Tornado F3 QRA aircraft are held on high alert at RAF Leuchars but not routinely at…
  • p. 418 …No copy was sent to Neatishead. b. RAF Air Defence Ground Environment units, including CRC Neatishead…
  • p. 427 …The lights observed from Skegness were captured on video which is being sent to RAF Neatishead…
  • p. 430 …RAF Neatishead if any aircraft activity was present on the radar in that area; Neatishead had…
  • p. 431 …Meanwhile, CRC Neatishead's inquiries had revealed no sign of air movements or military exercises in…
  • p. 448 …Torna o F3 QRA aircraft are held on high alert at RAF Leuchars b t ot…
  • p. 449 …No copy was sent to Neatishead. b. RAF Air Defence Ground Environment units, including CRC Neatishead…
  • p. 456 …RAF Neatishead to GESM dated 5 Oct 1996 attached to a transcipt of conversations between Neatishead…
  • p. 463 Copies of report made by RAF Fylingdales, North Yorkshire, of unidentified objects tracked by the BMEWS…
  • p. 471 …Copies of report made by RAF Fylingdales, North Yo~kshire, of unidentified ~·;}.Y' object/s tracked…
  • p. 477 …Copies of UFO reports made in the early hours of30/31 March 1993 by RAF and…
  • p. 491 …Copies of UFO reports made in the early hours of 30/31 March 1993 by RAF…
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On Thursday 1st April 1993, I received a call from
at the British UFO Research Associations Office, giving me the
name, address and telephone number of ~rs
from Pentregalar, Dyfed, who had also seen the two very bright
lights in flight across d.W.Wales at ·1.10am on Wednesday 31st
Harch 1993.
At this point, I now had some seven or eight reports, mostly
police officers, who had all observed two very bright white
li6hts or objects, travelling acros& the ni~ht sky fcom
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 6reat 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 'illumipated' or 'lit up' by some
means or other. One person describ~d them as 'like car head
light beams shining backwards, another thought they looked like
long thin fluorescent light t~bes!
Because of the extraordinary similarity between the reports, it
was obvious to me that at approximately 1.10am on the morning
of the 31st March 1993, an object of enormous size had crossed
N.W.Wales, S.Wales, N.Devon, 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
Taunton Gazette and Horiiton News, both weekly papers and gave
them some details of the events of Wednesday 31st.
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