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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.
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Also on file D/DSS/75/3 I discovered a number of other papers which are mainly draft ministerial correspondence but relate to the debate in the United Nations. They are as follows; 14. Letter from a member of the public (24 Nov 1977) and covering letter from Richard Luce MP to Minister of State for the FCO (8 Dec 1977) about press reports that the United Nations were to start an official probe into UFOs. (Unclassified) 15. Letter from Minister of State at FCO to Richard Luce MP (9 Dec 1977) to sey his letter had been transferred to the MOD. (Unclassified) 16. Copies of two newspaper cuttings from the Daily Telegraph (30 Nov1977 and 2 Dec 19 77) about the President of Grenada's proposal for a UN Study into UFOs. (Unclassified) 17. Copy of a newspaper cutting from The Sun (30 Nov 1977) on the UN debate on UFOs. (Unclassified) 18. File note dated 16 Dec 1977 seying the UN resolution had been shelved indefinitely and that the UK did not support it. (Unclassified) 19. Letter from S4(Air) to the Energy, Science & Space Department at the FCO dated 16 Dec 1977 requesting confirmation of the situation regarding the UN resolution. (Unclassified) 20. Draft letter from US of S (RAF) to Richard Luce MP in answer to ministerial correspondence mentioned at (I) above. (Unclassified) 21. Background note from S4(Air) to US of S (RAF) covering the above mentioned draft, dated 19 Dec 1977. (Unclassified) 22. Letter in reply to Richard Luce MP as mentioned at (I) above. Dated 20 December 1977. (Unclassified) These papers may be considered relevant to Dr Clarke's request as they also concern the UN debate on UFOs. We can not make a decision on the release of these until we have heard from the FCO about the other batch of papers. File D/DSS/75/3 also contained a number of papers concerning a radio broadcast that the French Minister ofDefence, M. Galley, gave in 1974 in which it was alleged he had said UFOs were real. 23. Copy of extract from House of Lords Hansard dated 9 March 1978 in which the Earl of Clancarty asked HMG whether they had obtained an official transcript of the broadcast on French-Inter radio of the interview with the French Minister of Defence. (Unclassified)
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