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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.
“UFO Files”38 pages
- p. 6 …Copy of the file relating to a UFO report made by-nd- near
Winchester, Hampshire on…
- p. 7 …Files D/DS8/75/2/5 Part B (UFO Reports-August to November 1980) and D…
- p. 9 …ofLords Debate on UFOs, on 18 January 1979.
On examining our files we have discovered a…
- p. 17 …SPfCIFIC ACTION ON UFO'S AND PRECLUDES THE INSCRIPTJOr OF A
SETARATE UFO ITEM ON NEXT…
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- p. 35 …Our files contain reports and Nick Pope's letters to Dl55 and notes about D Air…
- p. 69 …Galley had said
that UFOs were real but that he, the
Minister, did not know where…
- p. 70 …It cfo!lows UFOs, the truth is simple. There really
that the files must remain closed…
- p. 134 …We may be in for a long
hau1 on UFOs. The reply to the Earl will…
- p. 185 …Copies of enclosures 1/1, 1/2,1/3,1/4 from file Dl55/1 08…
- p. 190 …We have rio reason to believe
that the so-called UFOs are attributed to anything but…
- p. 212 …We have rio reason to believe
that the so-called UFOs are attributed to anything but…
- p. 303 …I received a non Ufo
report from a gentleman (name on file) who is a recently…
- p. 371 …I received a non Ufo
report from a gentleman (name on file) who is a recently…
- p. 451 DR CLARKE- REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
Request 1
Copy of the file relating to a UFO report…
- p. 453 …1977) on the UN debate on
UFOs. (Unclassified)
18. File note dated 16 Dec 1977 seying…
- p. 454 …French handling of UFO reports. (Unclassified)
29. Draft reply, background note and file minutes concerning Lord…
- p. 455 …There is one file D/Sec(AS)12/7- Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs)- Alleged
UFO incident…
- p. 456 …The file
contains no real conclusion to these events and Mr Pope was eventually told by…
- p. 460 …I am currently making - for access to UFO files currently
'closed' under the 30 year rule…
- p. 462 …UFO report made by
Winchester, Hampshire on 14 November 1976.
•
and
I have now received file…
- p. 463 …UFO report files that we have
recalled from archives show that UFO reports were once filed…
- p. 464 I am sorry we are unable to locate the file(s) you requested on the information…
- p. 466 …Lords debate on UFOs, on 18 January 1979. We had two files on this,
but these…
- p. 467 …Lords debate on UFOs, on 18 January 1979. We had two files on this, but these…
- p. 468 REQUISITION FOR A REGISTERED FILE
To:-DR2a2
File Nos:
(1) D/DS8/75/3 UFOs- Parliamentary…
- p. 470 …Ifthe UFO reports
y, \.j.tf' '\,....,.~V'tt contains are filed in chronologie~! order as is…
- p. 471 …The file reference D/Sec(AS)1217 UFOs, alleged UFO incident, 31st March 1993, appears
0…
- p. 472 …Does your branch retain a
list of UFO files that have been destroyed, and the reasons…
- p. 474 …DAO ADGE1
Subject: UFO
Importance: Low
Sir
Unfortunately, Neatishead destroyed their files (and therefore any transcript…
- p. 476 …Copy of the file relating to a UFO report made and -near
Winchester, Hampshire, on 14…
- p. 477 …file which may contain relevant information.
D/Sec(AS)12/7- Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs)- Alleged…
- p. 478 …The files concerned are:
D/DSS/75/2/2 Part L (1980) UFO Reports: Edited
D…
- p. 480 …This was produced because it was
believed that some UFO files might have been over looked…
- p. 482 . . ~·.
MOD Form 262E
REQUISITION FORA REGISTERED FILE
To:-DR2a2
File Nos:
1) D/DS8/7517 PtA…
- p. 486 …We have a file on these events, but I know DIS also have a file D…
- p. 487 …The file I need is PRO reference AIR 2/18977 UFO Reports- due for release in…
- p. 489 …Copy of the file relating to a UFO report made by
near Winch~ster, ~am~s…
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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