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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. 40 …But, unlike with the aircraft reported by the noble Earl, I have never seen one. I…
  • p. 43 …the United States of America which has never been made known to the public and even…
  • p. 45 …will be, Yes, and yet they have never seen one. We are asking you to believe…
  • p. 46 …selfish- ness and tendency to panic as never before since the days of the Crusades. The…
  • p. 47 …I never reached that standard of mathematics. However I know that Einstein believed that ele~tro…
  • p. 51 …The difficulty about such an explanation is that they never seem to come into actual contact…
  • p. 53 …some of the things he told us. Never- theless, I feel that it is of immense…
  • p. 58 …What sort of an interpretation would somebody who had H.L.8 Q never read about…
  • p. 59 …l should lib:1 have never seen ball lightning, but the 1 to go into the…
  • p. 60 …She said "I don't \Vant to, because it will spoil it all." They said " Never…
  • p. 62 …Of ;orts of sightings ~never it has been n·estigation they tttral phenomena pet to say…
  • p. 67 …1308 fro,m h;m ag~;n ~n many other occ";?"'· ' Why have they never tded…
  • p. 112 ..~ say that in the Air Force, for tne moment, they have never seemed to come directly…
  • p. 131 …informed that 11so far the military have never fonnd an-ything of D.nt1tjgressive nature fro…
  • p. 161 …Air Force, for tile moment, they have never seemed to come directly under air defence. ' . I…
  • p. 177 …informed that 11so far the military have never found anything of an~~gressive nature from the…
  • p. 187 …But it would be a brave man who said there could never, ever,be manned inter…
  • p. 190 …a cloud descended and picked up ~he regiment and it was never heard of again ••••••• (checking…
  • p. 192 …Let me assure this House that Her Majesty's Government has never been approached by people…
  • p. 209 …But it would be a brave man who said there could never, ever,be manned inter…
  • p. 212 …a cl6ud descended and picked up :the regiment and it was never heard of again ••••••• (checking…
  • p. 214 …Let me assure this Rouse that Her Majesty's Government has never been approached by people…
  • p. 300 …despite agreeing to complete a report form, this has never been returned - I wonder why? (13)
  • p. 320 …Mrllllllll stated that he had been a Met Officer for 8 years and had never~nything…
  • p. 368 …despite agreeing to complete a report form, this has never been returned - I wonder why? (13)
  • p. 399 …Significantly, the plot was never present on radar displays from the NATS sensors at Cromer and…
  • p. 417 …RAF Northwood was never involved in this event. confusion has arisen because Gt Yarmouth coastguard, referred…
  • p. 432 …Significantly, the plot was never present on radar displays from the NATS sensors at Cromer and…
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Witness Statement
Statement of
Ageifunder21 . o 21 (if over 21 insert 'over 21').
This statell].ent (consisting of · pages each signed by me) is true to the best of my knowledge and
belief and I make it knowing that, if it is tendered in evidence, I shall be liable to prosecution if 1have wilfully
stated in it anything which I know to be false or do not believe to be true.
Dated the 19 93
Signature
I n the Devon & Cornwall Constabulary stationed at
Liskeard in Ccrnwall.
At about 0110 hrs on the morning of Wednesday 31st March 1993 I was
on duty in uniform and driving a marked Police vehicle along the A38 at
Looe Mills near- Liskeard travelling in the direction of Dobwalls.
Thjs was naturally during the h6urs of darkness and the w~ather was
fine and dry, with some patchy cloud; the moen and a number of star3 being
visible. I w&s ~naccompanied.
As I began to negotiate a sweeping uphill left hand bend at the bottom
of Lantoom Hill, I became: aware of what appeared to be two 1 stars 1 ju~;t.
above the horizon in the apprcximate position of "two o 1 clock". They wc·re
due North of me and motionless in the sky. My attention was drawn to
these "stars" because apart from being in a part of the sky where there
are usually no stars, they were of a darker hue bordering on yellow instead
of silvery-white. They were reasonably close together but as I could not
begin to estimate their distance from me, I likewise cannct estimate how
far they were from each other.
As I negotiated the bend I continued to observe there when I suddenly
saw them begin to. move what appeared to me vertically upwards. They main-
tained a_ parallel course and identical speed ~nd as they approached the
"one 0' clock" position they began to leave vapour trails. I brot<ght my
--car- to- h lt - j.. • - • • My location now was
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