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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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This I believe, is evidence enough to suggest that this is
exactly what these people saw - a rocket re-entry.
What is also evident is that on the evening before, between
8.00pm and 11.00pm, objects were seen traversing the North
Devon sky and indeed ho~ering N.W. of the same ~rea~ In
addition it is fairly certain that at 2.00am on the 31st, an
object of some considerable size, flew over the River Parrot at
Bridgewater, disturbing not only the local fishermen, but also
the cattle in the adjacent fields. Also at this time we have
the mystery of the 3 helicopters seen. They were almost
certainly of a military type, but as with the 2 fighter
aircraft over East Devon earlier, their presence has been
denied by the MoD - Why?
In association with this we have the 1.30am sightings at St
Ives and Penzance and the other numerous sightings over
Cornwall, Devon, Shropshire, South Yorkshire and Hampshire,
starting at 10.10pm on the 30t~ and ending at 2.40am on the
31st.
If these reports are correct, and as I said earlier, I have no
reason to doubt them and my reports are also correct, then it
must be the case that at least one, if not more,_unidentified
flying objects were active over these areas on the night in
question - but what was their purpose? Were they I it here on a
specific mission, or just carryingout a nighttime surveillance
operation. The latter scenario is of course quite feasibly
given what we already know from their well documented past, but
what about the first proposition?
Well if we examine the evidence and what we already know ~bout
this alleged mode of operation, there is clearly a case for
this line of thinking.
In Timothy Goods .latest book 'Alien Update' he edits a whole
chapter on this very subject. He cites a number of cases from
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