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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. 39 …lot of people in this country that there was ah•o a unit-a scientific one…
  • p. 42 …States; secondly, to see whether UFOs '- could contribute technical and scientific -· .J We know that war…
  • p. 43 …It was just before the Americans had landed on the moon. Sir Frank said that he…
  • p. 62 …1297 Unidentified ·.. 18 JANUARY 1979 ··'Flying Objects -1298 on the Canadian prairies has displayed 1 scientific…
  • p. 118 …The 11Ufologists11 thilik that certain writings, drawingn D.nd sculptures, particulazoly those of the South American…
  • p. 167 …to prove the material existence . of UFOs. Scientific point of View It would be pointles·s…
  • p. 452 …text of the resolution and that the Americans also intend to go along with the consensus…
~ltimately associated with lights in the Wash or E
This church spire is known in aviation circles as
-··stump' and appears. occasionally on some radars in
propagation·conditions.
Anglian area.
the 'Boston
certain radar
8. Conclusion. The prolonged sighting· of stationary coloured
flashing lights reported by the Skegness police on 5 oct 9 6 had no .
significance for the integrity of tm·Airspace and no associated
air vehicle was detected by civil or military radars.
Wg Cdr
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