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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. 40 …But, unlike with the aircraft reported by the noble Earl, I have never seen one. I…
  • p. 43 …the United States of America which has never been made known to the public and even…
  • p. 45 …will be, Yes, and yet they have never seen one. We are asking you to believe…
  • p. 46 …selfish- ness and tendency to panic as never before since the days of the Crusades. The…
  • p. 47 …I never reached that standard of mathematics. However I know that Einstein believed that ele~tro…
  • p. 51 …The difficulty about such an explanation is that they never seem to come into actual contact…
  • p. 53 …some of the things he told us. Never- theless, I feel that it is of immense…
  • p. 58 …What sort of an interpretation would somebody who had H.L.8 Q never read about…
  • p. 59 …l should lib:1 have never seen ball lightning, but the 1 to go into the…
  • p. 60 …She said "I don't \Vant to, because it will spoil it all." They said " Never…
  • p. 62 …Of ;orts of sightings ~never it has been n·estigation they tttral phenomena pet to say…
  • p. 67 …1308 fro,m h;m ag~;n ~n many other occ";?"'· ' Why have they never tded…
  • p. 112 ..~ say that in the Air Force, for tne moment, they have never seemed to come directly…
  • p. 131 …informed that 11so far the military have never fonnd an-ything of D.nt1tjgressive nature fro…
  • p. 161 …Air Force, for tile moment, they have never seemed to come directly under air defence. ' . I…
  • p. 177 …informed that 11so far the military have never found anything of an~~gressive nature from the…
  • p. 187 …But it would be a brave man who said there could never, ever,be manned inter…
  • p. 190 …a cloud descended and picked up ~he regiment and it was never heard of again ••••••• (checking…
  • p. 192 …Let me assure this House that Her Majesty's Government has never been approached by people…
  • p. 209 …But it would be a brave man who said there could never, ever,be manned inter…
  • p. 212 …a cl6ud descended and picked up :the regiment and it was never heard of again ••••••• (checking…
  • p. 214 …Let me assure this Rouse that Her Majesty's Government has never been approached by people…
  • p. 300 …despite agreeing to complete a report form, this has never been returned - I wonder why? (13)
  • p. 320 …Mrllllllll stated that he had been a Met Officer for 8 years and had never~nything…
  • p. 368 …despite agreeing to complete a report form, this has never been returned - I wonder why? (13)
  • p. 399 …Significantly, the plot was never present on radar displays from the NATS sensors at Cromer and…
  • p. 417 …RAF Northwood was never involved in this event. confusion has arisen because Gt Yarmouth coastguard, referred…
  • p. 432 …Significantly, the plot was never present on radar displays from the NATS sensors at Cromer and…
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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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