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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. 418 …Control of Air Defence aircraft on missions to preserve the Integrity of UK airspace. ARCC Kinless…
  • p. 449 …control of Air Defence aircraft on missions to preserve the Integrity of UK airspace. ARCC Kinless…
0747Z- Asked to look for
plot 120°/23nm (Boston).
Plot observed but later
confessed to mistake in
reported position; was, in
fact, a separate permanent
echo· in Skegness direction'.
OVER BOSTON- 0200-12
CLAXBY
Approx 0230- 1200Z
Plot 221°/16nm from
Skegness- stationary,
no height or IFF. Observed
on CLAXBY radar displays
at CRC Neatishead, Anglia
Radar& D&D Cell.
SKEGNESS CROMER
ANNEXBTO
D/DA0/1/13
DATED 13 NOV96
TRIMMINGHAM
No Plot
Boston Plot • Active Investigation
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0710- London Mi16153 squawk passed 3nm
from plot FL150- no contact
0830- Anglia radar 7000 squawk flew
through plot at 900ft - no contact
1105- Waddington Approach 1743 squawk
transitted Boston area at 2000ft- nothing
seen
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