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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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24. Draft reply to above parliamentary question, background note and.file minutes dated March 1978. (Unclassified) 25. File note dated 2 March 1978 saying that S4(Air) had obtained the official transcript of the radio broadcast/rom the Air Attache in Paris who also provided details of the attitude of the French MOD to UFOs. (Unclassified) 26. Letter from S4(Air) to Air Attache in Paris dated 13 Dec 1977 requesting a transcript of the French Defence Minister's radio broadcast, details of how the French MOD handle UFO reports, and the nature of the investigations at the Centre nationale d'Etude Spatial. (Unclassified). 27. Copy of House of Lords Hansard dated 14 Dec 1977when The Earl ofClancarty requested that the MOD and Home Office would reconsider their previous answers to PQs and draw their attention to a book "The Crack in the Universe". (Unclassified) 28. Letter from Air Attache in Paris dated 30 Jan 1978 in reply to (4). Includes a copy of the transcript of the radio broadcast made by the French Defence Minister and a copy of a document entitled "Air Actualites" dated October 1976, which describes the French handling of UFO reports. (Unclassified) 29. Draft reply, background note and file minutes concerning Lord Clancarty 's further parliamentary question on the French Minister of Defence interview on radio. Dated Dec 1977. (Unclassified) 30. Loose Minute dated 12 Dec 1977 from S4(Air) to the Chief Librarian requesting a copy of an extract from a book "The Crack in the Universe" mentioned in Lord Clancarty 's parliamentary question (28). (Unclassified). 31. Copy of Hansard Extract dated 6 Dec 1977 answered by the Minister of State, Department of Education and Science concerning a study group set up in France called "Groupe d'Etudes sur les Phenomenes Aerospatiales Non- Identifies. (Unclassified). 32. Copy of extract from House of Lords Hansard dated 1 Dec 1977when The Earl ofClancarty stated that France had set up a section in 1954 to study UFOs and asked if the MOD had a similar section. (Unclassified). 33. Copy of extract from House of Lords Hansard dated 30 Nov 1977 when The Earl of Clancarty asked HMG if they were aware of the French Minister of Defence radio broadcast. (Unclassified) These papers are relevant to Dr Clarke's request as the French Minister's broadcast was raised by Lord Clanclarty in the House of Lords Debate and addressed by Lord Strabolgi (Coll311 & 1312) in his reply.
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