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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.
Directorate Air StatT Ministry of Defence Metropole Building Northumberland Avenue London WClN SBP Your ref D/DAS/64/3/11 11 November 2002 Dr David Clarke ' .i.~,··--; ::• ,. Thank you for your letter of 31 October following my request for copies ofUFO-related documents. I'm grateful once again for the detailed responses to my questions, and for the breakdown of the costs involved in supplying the documents I requested. Therefore, please proceed with my application on the basis of the quote you provided in your earlier letter of 16 September 2002. Please advise me if the total is likely to exceed the figure you have quoted (£285) so that I may decide if I wish the work to continue. With reference to your comments in reply to my point (2) concerning the briefing notes prepared for the House of Lords UFO debate. Yes, I wish to pursue my request for copies of papers contained in the General Parliamentary Correspondence file covering 1978 (MoD ref D/DS8/75/3 Part A) to which you refer and would be grateful if you could process this request as part of my overall application above. In addition, if additional papers relating to briefings for the 1978 House of Lords debate are located by the other branches you mentioned, I wish to obtain copies of these under the same application. _ ___cF_i----;nally, I wonder if you are able to answer a more general question with regard to the !pl4lttlftte,omu'1g Freedom of Information Act. I understand that from January 2005 the ·ILIIDHrt111ot111" '30 year rule' will be effectively abolished, and that in addition the FOIA is retrospective in terms of documents currently awaiting release at the Public Record Office. How, in practice, will this alter the current arrangements with regard to applications - such as the one I am currently making - for access to UFO files currently 'closed' under the 30 year rule? Thank you for your attention to my requests. Yours sincerely,
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