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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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Dr David Clarke 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 9 December 2002 020 7218 2140 020 7218 9000 - Thank you for your letter of 11 November in which you asked us to proceed with your request for UFO related documents. .Our search is now complete, so I will address your requests individually and explain the files examined and documents enclosed with this letter. 1. Copy of the file relating to a UFO report made by-nd- near Winchester, Hampshire on 14 November 1976. nor any this request. but it contained no reports for the 14th November, There are therefore no documents we can send you for 2. Copies of the files containing briefing and background notes on UFOs prepared by the head of S4(Air), with contributions from RAF Ops (GE)2 and DI55 for reference by Lord Strabolgi in his closing address during the House of Lords debate on UFOs, 18 January 1979. Our files D/DSS/75/3/1 Parts A and B (Parliamentary Correspondence- House of Lords Debate, January 1979) were destroyed in 1990. As requested we have examined our general parliamentary correspondence tile, D/DS8/75/3 Part A and this has revealed several background documents relating to the debate. As I indicated in my last letter, some of these were not generated by the MOD and I have asked the Department concerned to examine them for possible release. I will write to you as soon as I have received a reply. In the meantime, please find enclosed the relevant papers from this file which we are able to release immediately, plus a number of papers located by DI55.
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