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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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Dear Dr Clarke From: Directorate of Air Staff (Lower Airspace) Operations & Policy 1 MINISTRY OF DEFENCE Room 6/73, Metropole Building, Northumberland Avenue, London, WC2N 5BP Telephone (Direct dial) (Switchboard) (Fax) (GTN) Your Reference Our Reference D/DAS/64/3111 Date 16 September 2002 Thank you for your letter of29 August in which you requested an estimate of the time and cost of supplying documents under the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information. I will address your requests in the same order as your letter. 1. Copy of the file relating to a UFO report made and -near Winchester, Hampshire, on 14 November 1976. -I can confirm that AIR 2/18977 appears to be the appropriate file. It is currently held at the Public Record Office awaiting release in 2007. We have recalled the file which should reach us within the next two weeks. Without sight of the file we do not know how many enclosures it contains, but for the purposes of this estimate, we have assumed 100 enclosures. 2. Copies of the file containing briefings and background notes on UFOs prepared for reference by Lord Strabolgi in his closing address during the House of Lords debate on UFOs, 18 January 1979.- There were two files D/DS8/75/3/1 Parts A and B- Parliamentary Correspondence-House ofLords Debate, January 1979. These files were among a batch destroyed in 1990, so I am sorry that we will be unable to supply these documents. 3. Copies of report made by RAF Fylingdales, North Yorkshire, of unidentified object/s tracked by the BMEWS on or about 13 September 1980, and reported to MOD. Also any sightings made by MOD Police and civilian (West Yorkshire) police officers on about the same date. -We have identified two ftles which may hold relevant material, D/DS8/75/2/5 Part B -UFO Reports. The file contains 248 UFO sightings reported to the MOD, covering the period August to November 1980. Also D/DS8/75/2/2 Part M- UFO Reports - Edited Copies which contains 100 UFO sightings reported to the MOD, covering the period August to September 1980.
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