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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.
“RAF Neatishead”18 pages
ANNEX F TO D/DA0/1/13 DATED 13 NOV 96 ABBREVIATED COMMENTS ON MR REDMOND'S LETTER 1. General. Mr Redmond's comments are largely based on radio traffic between Gt Yarmouth Coastguard Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre and various agencies which was either released or intercepted then reported in the press and interpreted in various ways; erroneously, the visual observations of lights have been linked with persistent radar returns from a permanent echo at Boston Lines. 2. Para 1. There was no visual identified flying craft only unusual lights; correlation by 'various different military radar systems' did not occur. 3. Para 2. a. Lights with different characteristics were observed to the E and/or SE of Skegness and Boston by Police and by the crew of MV Conocoast some a miles east of Skegness. A separate stationary object was detected on one ATC radar at Claxby, Lines, over Boston and observed on the same radar display at Neatishead, Anglia Radar (later) and the D&D Cell at the London Air Traffic Control Centre (LATCC} West Drayton; a stationary object was also detected much later on the Waddington approach radar, however this was in a separate position, not over Boston. Three aircraft subsequently flew close to the 'object' but no sighting of an airborne vehicle was made. b. RAF Northwood was never involved in this event. confusion has arisen because Gt Yarmouth coastguard, referred incorrectly to 'D&D Northwood' instead of 'D&D West Drayton' in several transmissions or conversations; this error was reproduced in press reports. 4. Para 3. a. Aircraft were not scrambled because there was no evidence whatsoever of an unidentified airborne vehicle in the vicinity. b. Tornado F3 QRA aircraft are held on high alert at RAF Leuchars but not routinely at Leeming or coningsby. c. The RAF Air Rescue Coordination centre (ARCC), Kinloss was only involved by Gt Yarmouth Coastguard Maritime Rescue Coordination centre (MRCC) to ascertain whether they knew of any air activity in the area. ARCC, in turn, asked CRC Neatishead and D&D who replied in the negative; ARCC subsequently relayed several messages between D&D/Neatishead and the MRCC concerning the stationary radar plot. 5. Para 4. Locations of permanent echoes are well known to
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