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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.
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• .),~f~~~i.. \REDACTION ON ORIGINAL DOCUMENT I (16) back. About an hour later he did, but what he had to tell me was nothing short of amazing. He had been unable to discover any details regarding these aircraft and was at a loss to explain their presence over East Devon at the time. To his knowledge there had not been any flyovers by RAF, NATO or other ·. t aircraft and stated that all known flights would most certainly have been logged and they was no way that aircraft of this type could fly over Britain without the MoD's knowledge. However, having explained to him why I was making this enquiry he did tell me that 'they' also had received a number of calls and letters reporting the same kind of 'objects' i.e. two very bright lights traversing the sky during the evening of the 30th and early morning of the 31st March 1993. Upon request, he later sent me a list o~ these sig~tings, giving locations, times and directions of travel. A study of these locations and times was most informative and I have to say, also somewhat guzzling. Because I had sentlllllla summary of my reports, some . of these were mine and were in accordance with them. There were, however, a number which were not. Briefly his reports covered the period 10.10pm on the 30th to 02.40am on the 31st, and indicated that these objects had been seen as far north as South Yorkshire, Shropshire and the counties of Cornwall, Devon and Hampshire - all at different times and in many cases flying in different directions! This as you can imagine was very confusing. For example, there were 3 sightings from South Yorkshire, all at different times i.e. 9.10pm, 11.40pm & 1.17am. the 9.10pm sighting had the objects travelling S.E., the 11.40pm ones travelling north whilst the 9.10pm ones were unknown. In addition there was a sighting from Bristol at 1.10am but these object~ were travelling westwards - and so it went on. * A copy of the MoD report with map i~ attached to this report. /17 • ~:- :"'.i~ <::".-:,-~:...... ' . ·- • . ... ·i..:.;-
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