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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. 394 …LIGHTS IN THE WASH AREA unusual believe briefly 2. Stationary and generally red/green/white flashing…
  • p. 395 ~ltimately associated with lights in the Wash or E This church spire is known in aviation…
  • p. 397 …any air activity or incident in the wash area. The ARCC had no knowledge of any…
  • p. 398 …surveillance or aircraft control in the Wash area. Later, the plot was observed by Anglia Radar…
  • p. 399 …a unit familiar with operating aircraft in the Wash area; however, it is not possible to…
  • p. 413 …This wo1..tld ha.ve had the effect of 'washing out' all but the brightest stars…
  • p. 427 …LIGHTS IN THE WASH AREA unusual believe briefly 2. Stationary and generally red/green/white flashing…
  • p. 430 …any air activity or incident in the wash area. The ARCC had no knowledge of any…
  • p. 431 …surveillance or aircraft control in the Wash area. Later, the plot was observed by Anglia Radar…
  • p. 432 …a unit familiar with operating aircraft in the Wash area; however, it is not possible to…
  • p. 444 …This of 'washing out' all but the brightest stars. H this was Sirius or Ca.nopus…
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Staffordshire Police
\REDACTION ON ORIGINAL DOCUMENT]
P.C.
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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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