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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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4. Copies of UFO reports made in the early hours of30/31 March 1993 by RAF and meteorological office personnel and by members of the public, from a number of locations including RAF Cosford and RAF Shawbury. Also copies of assessment made. - We have identified one file which may contain relevant information. D/Sec(AS)12/7- Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs)- Alleged UFO Incident- 31st March 1993 which contains 40 enclosures. We are also looking to see if there is any further material on these events. 5. Reports of unusual phenomena on radar in the early hours of 5 October 1996 reported by the SOC Neatishead and UFO reports made by Lincolnshire Police and the Skegness coastguard. Copies of investigation notes and assessment made.- We have identified one file which may contain relevant material. D/Sec(AS)64/2 Part D- UFO Sighting Reports contains 181 enclosures and covers reports from August to December 1996. I estimate that undertaking the work you have requested will take around 23 hours. Four hours work would be conducted free, leaving 19 hours which would attract a fee of £15 an hour, or a total of £285. This assumes it will take two minutes to check each page, and photocopy and sanitise any relevant documents. This would be a three day task spread over six half days. As one file is being retrieved from the Public Record Office and another is to be reviewed by a different division, we could make the material available to you during October 2002. In advance of conducting a careful review of the documentation this sum remains an estimate only. The final cost may be lower, but if, during the course of the review, it appears that the cost may be in excess of this sum I shall let you know so that you may decide whether you wish the work to continue. I look forward to hearing from you in due course.
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