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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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-' .;: 1 ! '' t; ~ : •(_.· · 1251 Unidentified [LORDS] Flying Objects 1251 [The Earl of Clancarty.] I The noble Lord, Lord Donaldson of the White House he would release to the \ Kingsbridge, kindly confirmed to me in public all the UFO information in the 1 his reply that the. GEPAN unit-those Pentagon. Unfortunately, that election I are the initials of the group-had been pledge bas not been fulfilled. I set up under the French Ministry of . . . IIndustry, Commerce and Artisans at the "(,!'\ \Yha.} has been happemngrm the ~ovt.et centre in Toulouse. M. Galley also added , J"' pmon . P~oba~l~ the leaamg _ufo,~~Ist I~hat the gendann~rie were I?layin~ a very ~· ' m that country . IS Doctor Felt~ ZI.,el, Important part m UFO mvesttgations ·- Professor of Higher Mathematics ~nd questioning witnesses and examining burnt ~s~~onomy at the 'Mos~ow Aer~mautical Icircular marks on the ground where Ls.titute. For a ~ong time he nad been UFOs had landed; or were alleged to trymg to for~n a big UFO resca_ych group have landed. So the French have been on a worldwide scale .. Man?' UFOs have I taking it all seriously and keeping their been seen over the Soviet Unwn. In July, own people informed. Nobody panicked ~ugust, September and ,October 1967, for I and people did not rush like lemmines mst.ance, giant space ~hips were seen over into the sea. ~ vanous parts of the USSR by astronomers and other witnesses. On lOth November Is it not time that Her Majesty's of that year, it was annou:r..ced that th~re Government informed our people of was to be a full investigation of UFOs. what thev know about UFOs? The This -..vas announced on Russian tele- UFOs have been coming in increasing vision. The oueration was to be headed numbers for 30 years since the war, and b):' Major Gen~ral Anatoly Stolyerov, I think it is time our people were told the wtth Doctor Zl!f_:l as Number Two. , truth. We have not been invaded from Thousands o~ U.t-0 cases ~vere. to be I outer space. Most incidents have not analysed by sc1ent1sts and So':1et Air Force \ been hostile. Indeed it is us, the earthlings, officer?. However, the Russmn Academy who have fired on them. There may have for Sciences came down hard on the new \ been a few allegedly hostile incidents, but UFO group. a11d on 27,_!h. Febr~ary, 1968, I maintain that if there is a disturbing Pravda.~ubhsh~d.the orncml attitude of the 1 element in a phenomenon which is pretty authont1es, ana .. he cover-up was on. friendly on the whole, we should be told There is, however, one country which the truth. ~hatever the .tfl:lth is, I am can be relied upcm to take a line independ- sure that an mfon.ned pu~hc IS a prepared ent from others over many matters, and . one. 1~not_hcr thmg: It I~ on record that \ lJFOs proved to be 110 exception. In I ~oth s.Ightmg an~ landmg reports are Febmary, 1974, rhe then French :i\.iinister \ mcreasmg all. the time. Just suppose. the of Defence, TvL Robert GaHev, W::'l.s int.::r- ufonauts d~c1dcd. to make mass landmgs viewed entirely about UFOs· on France- \ tomorrow 1~ this country-there could Inter radio statim1. The interviewer was 1 well be pamc here, because our people Jean Ciaude-Bourret. At the time there Ihave not been prepared. was tremendous publicity in France, but for some reason our newspapers did not 1 . The noble Lord, Lord Strabolgi, is to even mention the broadcast. M. Galley reply for Her Majesty's Government at stated that the UFOs were real b'..lt Ithe end of this debate. I should like ~o admitted that it was not known where ask the noble Lord whether he will they came from. He said that since 1954, ~co~~ct his right honourable frien~ .t~e r there had been a unit in the French Mmister of Defence about the possibility Ministrv of Defen:::e collecting UFO of giving a broadcast interview about reports: Some of this material was sent to UFOs, as. h~s counterpart across the ; the National Cc11tre for Space Studies in Channel did IJ?- 1971. Tha~ would go a Toulouse, the French equivalent of the long way to discredit the view held by a American NASA. In this Centre there . lot of people in this country that there was ah•o a unit-a scientific one--studying \ is a cover-up. here and th~t in some V:'aY both UFO sighting: and landing reports. we are playmg along with the Umted "' \'1 States over this. I should also like to see · A little over a year ago, I received some ) an intra-governmental study of the UFOs. information that this particu)ar unit was \ All Gov~mments should get to¥ether and under go'.'ernment sponsorships and so I it pool the1r knowledge about UFOs, and put down a Question for Written Answer. 1 the results should be passed on to the -. 1253 public. your Lol and 1 bel 7.29p.m Lord· bound t speech \Vondere holding on this audknc: having} Lord C of thou. I may\'. anyway right at Ther suppor1 in tra-g< means, betweei would United suppor think t view t to ju: money I cc volunt Jwhich to be 1 . '\ be OI ' those ·J \ ones- 1 vf Di in the mysci I beli from univc I l I ha' time~ aircr: have I b~ sight sci a con'< b<:: S< wen: info It i whi; us t•
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