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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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Staffordshire Police
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P.C.
SUPT.
U.F.O. REPORT
Your ~,terence:
Our Reference:
STATION: RUGELEY.
DATE: 31.3.93
With reference to the attached report by P.C.
concerning a U.F.O. being sighted in the Brereton Area of
Rugel~e information has been received by myself from
a Cpllllllff the Military Police at R.A.F. Cosford.
Cpllllllhas informed me that from enquiries he has made
he has further si~t·s of the U.F.O. in Bristol at
0100 hours by an at'Bristol Airport, at
Ternhill Barracks at ours by two guards on duty
there and at R.A.F. ·stafford where two guards also saw
it travelling at a speed of approximately '400 knots'
on a very low flight path.
Cpllllllfalso informed me that he has liaised with R.A.F.
Shrewsbury, at Mrllllllll, who informed him that he had seen
a U.F.O. in the sKy travelling at high speed but riding
erratically at different-attitudes. He observed it for
approx. 15 minutes until it went off at speed (400 knots)
in a southern direction.
Enquiries have been made with all aviation centres and
there was no activity in the area at all by any military
or civil aeroplanes.
All the above information has been recorded at R.A.F. Cosford
and a separate report has been compiled by Cpllllllll'
If any more information is required it can~
~lice at R.A.F. Cosford Tel ................

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