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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.
GR 2~ I~~tioiATE ./ '~ . ,C'(~~ CAT A , , eFM i C 0 ~11703Z CONFIDENTIAL . . . TO IMMEDIATE UKMIS NEW YORK TELNO 1225 OF 1 DECEM.BER, YOUR TF.LNOS, 2241 AND 2242 AND TELECON HANNAY/STYCHE • . ·UFO ITEM. •. . -........ • I • 1. WE REMAIN FIRMLY OPPOSED TO A GRENADA RESOLUTION ON UFOS, WE ·' DO NOT CONSIDER SUCH OPPOSITION LIKELY TO BE DAMAGING EITHER TO THE UK OR TO THE UN. YOU SHOULD, THEREFORE, MAKE NO ATTENPT .TO CONCEAL THE UK'S INTENTION OF VOTING AGAINST ANY RESOLUTION CONTAINING AN OPERATIONAL OUTCOME, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT THIS LEAVES US IN A t-11NORITY. 2. IF THE GRErJADANS CAN BE PERSUADED TP ABANOON THEIR RESOLUTION ~E TliiNK THAT REFERRAL OF THEIR UFO IN1EREST TO THE COMMlTT~C JH CllfER SPACE WOULD PROVIDE THE BEST FACE SAVING DEVICE. THIS (;011~·11 T I"EE 1S M=TER AL~ THE ESTABLISHED UN OODY DEALING. ~II TH OUTER SP~CE M~TTERS. WE UNDERSTAND THE AUSTRIAN CHAIRMAN'S ANXIETIES DUT TH l NK THAT l N VIE\~ OF THE COi"IN I TTEE' S EXISTING WORI< LOAD,.. . THIS ITSELF SHOULD BE A REASONABLE GUARANTEE THAT THE UFO ISSUE \~ULD EE PLACED AT THE BOTTOM OF ITS AGENDA WITH ,A FAIR CHANCE OF BEING IGNORED INDEFINITELY. 3. HE ARE LESS ATTRACTED TO THE SUGGEST! ON IN PARAG·RAPH 6 OF TELNO. 2241. IT HAS THE DISADVANTAGE THAT ONCE THE UFO ISSUE WAS INSCRIBED AS AN AGEND( ITEM· FOR THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY IT WOULD BE THERE IN BLACK AND WHITE AND \vE COULD NOT REPEAT NOT BE CERTAI.N THAT COi'TI NUJ NG PRESSURE FROM GRENADA, PERHAPS \~I TH THE SUPPORT OF OTHER DELEG.ATIONS, W.QU~D.NOT LEAD TO IT$ DISCUSSION EITHER .AT THE 33RD OR 34TH SESSION OF T~E GENERAL ASSEMBLY, Oh'EN F I L··E S ES · AJ.'ID SD UN DEPT NAMD M AND CD . MR BURROWS z.m WEIR.·. .. . '.·.. -... J I
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