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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. 16 …T!iE C0~1M ITTEE'S tELIBERATION HILL BE HICLUDF.D IN ITS REPORT \.JrllCH WILL…
  • p. 22 …RY IS SAYING Tl-h\ T H£:: HILL tJvT BE FUT OFF AG A I fl…
  • p. 57 …I can give no explana- over the hills between Loch Sweyne and tion why there should…
  • p. 68 …is a great car headlights on distant hills; dust devils; variety of plain explanations. There is…
  • p. 190 …the First Fotirth Norfolks, -was advancing towards Hill 60: a cloud descended and picked up ~he…
  • p. 212 …the First Fourth Norfolks, -was advancing towards Hill 60: a cl6ud descended and picked up :the…
  • p. 259 …with some Scouts Up on the Quantock Hills at about 9pm on the 30th. He reports…
  • p. 262 …hand bend at the bottom of Lantoom Hill, I became: a~;are of what appeared to…
  • p. 300 …At approx 9.00pm he was up on the Quantock Hills, Nth Somerset, with a group…
  • p. 309 …Crymyn, Dy Time y on hill side approximately 1,000' above sea level. Attending sheep, observes…
  • p. 315 …310010z Clee-Hill Clee-Hill Clee-Hill Clee-Hill Burrinqton SB. 3l0010z Clee-Hill SC. 310010z…
  • p. 327 …with some Scouts UJ? on the Quantock Hills at about 9pm on the 30th. He reports…
  • p. 330 …hand bend at the bottom of Lantoom Hill, I became: aware of what appeared to be…
  • p. 343 …LOCAL HILL <COSLEY HILL) L. SATCO MIDDLE WALLOP 1"1. MR GREATLY HAMPSHIRE PAGE 2 RBDAID…
  • p. 368 …At approx 9.00pm he was up on the Quantock Hills, Nth Somerset, with a grou…
  • p. 380 …Lady on hill side approximately 1,000' above sea level. Attending sheep, observes 2 large white…
  • p. 383 …310010z Clee-Hill Clee-Hill Clee-Hill Squawk 1461/039 N/E to S/W Nothing…
  • p. 451 …in answer to a PQ by Lord Hill-Norton on 14 October 1998. This file was…
  • p. 471 …On 14 October 1998 in the House ofLords, Lord Hill-Norton asked the Minister of State…
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ACTION ON ORIGINAL DOCUMENT
ABBREVIATED CO
ANNEX F TO
D/DA0/1/13
DATED 13 NOV 96
REDMOND'S LETTER
1. General.
traffic betwee
Coordination c
or intercepted
various ways;
been linked wi
Boston Lines.
lllllllls comments are largely based on radio
t Yarmouth Coastguard Maritime Rescue
re and various agencies which was either released
en reported in the press and interpreted in
roneously, the visual observations of lights have
2. Para 1.
unusual lights
systems' did n
3. Para 2.
a. Ligh
the E and
crew of
separate ta
Claxby, L'nc
display a N
at the La do
Drayton;
the Waddi
position,
close to
was made.
ersistent radar returns from a permanent echo at
e was no visual identified flying craft only
rrelation by ~various different military radar
ith different characteristics were observed to
SE of Skegness and Boston by Police and by the
nocoast some a miles east of Skegness. A
ionary object was detected on one ATC radar at
, over Boston and observed on the same radar
atishead, Anglia Radar (later) and the D&D Cell
Air Traffic Control Centre (LATCC) West
ationary object was also detected much later on
n approach radar, however this was in a separate
over Boston. Three aircraft subsequently flew
~object' but no sighting of an airborne vehicle
b. RAF involved in this event.
confusion a arisen because Gt Yarmouth coastguard, referred
incorrectl o ~D&D Northwood' instead of ~D&D West Drayton'
in several t ansmissions or conversations; this error was
reproduced i press reports.
4. Para 3. \
a. Aircr~f were not scrambled because there was no
evidence w a soever of an unidentified airborne vehicle in
the vicini y.
b. Torna o F3 QRA aircraft are held on high alert at RAF
Leuchars b t ot routinely at Leeming or coningsby.
c. The ir Rescue Coordination Centre (ARCC), Kinless
was only ved by Gt Yarmouth Coastguard Maritime Rescue
Coordinati n entre (MRCC} to ascertain whether they knew of
any air ac iv'ty in the area. ARCC, in turn, asked CRC
Neatisheadian D&D who replied in the negative; ARCC
subsequent y elayed several messages between D&D/Neatishead
and the MR c oncerning the stationary radar plot.
I
5. Para 4. L ca ions of permanent echoes are well known to

Cases discussed

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