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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…
DOCUMENTED/RESEARCHED VISUAL SIGHTINGS
OF FLASHING MULTICOLOURED LIGHTS FROM SKEGNESS
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0205Z - Bearing E, low in the sky
becoming higher and clearer over
~ that it was a star'
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C-5
0214Z- Bearing 110°, calculated
in relation to measured video
bearing at 0350Z. Elevation
higher than when videoed 20/25°??
0350Z - Bearing 115° (compass
measured by Skegness from position
oflights on video), _elevation 15/20°.
0214Z- 'Bearing SE, high in the sky'
-Estimated by observer.
0350Z- 'Bearing SSE, 30-50° above
horizon' - Estimated by observer.
0550Z- 'Lights in the same place'.

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