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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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.--------- (17) What all this means is anybody's guess. Was the information correct and I see no reason why it ~houldn't be, or was it incorrect and i·deliberate ·ploy to confuse the issue and try to put me off the scent? - I really don't know. If correct, and lets suppose it is, then this surely means that not only were there 'unknown' objects flying and hovering over the westcountry between 8.00pm and 2.00am on the night, but were also tracking across the Midlands, South Yorkshire and Hampshire - what were they doing? Conclusions As a Ufo researcher, it's my job to try and evaluate all reports and information received ~n an objective and hopefully methodical way. This case has, to date, shown all the hallmarks of a typical ufo event with evidence swaying the urgently sought answers one way and then the other. Were the events on this night nothing more or less· than the re-entry of a man made space vehicle, or was it a ufo phenomenon related to that event? I think it may well be the latter. My reasons for thinking this are twofold. Firstly, there is no doubt that the re-entry took place and that this occurred at approximately 01.0Sam on the 31st. From the evidence collected and collated it is almost certainly a fact that the reports describing the events at l.lOam indicate that what these people witnessed was the re-entry of this missile. The heights given are synonymous with a re-entry of this kind and the length of 'sighting time' likewise. All the 'sighters' give the objects direction of flight as N.W. to S.E. or N. to S. giving some_ marg~n of error and this would certainly been the spent rockets course. /18
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