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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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S. h.:' sprung it. on n1e as a bit of a surprise-- Lewis, who was a profoundly Christian is this. lf you were to create a vacuum, apologist, wrote the most marvellous space what would happen to the air you had dis- fiction of a complex universe, in which placed? Would you pull it in in front some of the created species were tempted and push it out behind'? lf that is your and fallen, like ourselves; others were means of travelling through the medium. tempted and unfallen; and othc:rs were )'<)U arc merely moving some air back- untempted. And they all had to live '' urds at the speed of sound, and it would together in the same universe. I have create a supersonic bang just the same. always regarded the deeps of space and the Customarily, very often we hear two immense time that it would take to travel b:1ngs because there is a bow wave and a from one inhabited world to another as stern wave from the moving object. Some- being a kind of divine quarantine to times the bang degenerates into a rumble, prevent created beings from intcrferirl!! just as. a thunderclap degenerates into a with one another's cultures until they are rumble. Anv noble Lords who have been civilised enough and mature enough to uncomfortably close to a lightening bolt reach the point when thcv no longer want arc aware that it makes a very pronounced to do so. Too much· of our- science bang_ as the spark flies through the air. fiction is taken up with the supposition that vastly superior kings to ourselves are motivated by the same rather un- worthy commercial motives as ours, and that they want to steal our coal mines or our water or set up imperialisms. 1 ~ If these arc material objects and if they /;are moving at the speeds alleged, I cannot ~' sec th~m doing other than making a bang, :: so either they are not material objects or 'i they are 110t moving at the spe"ds alleged, (; in which case the speeds arc some kind of optical illusion. This thro\\•s doubt upon the rest ofttw reports that we received upon them. In this week's New Scientist, published today, there is a report from New Zealand, and I should like to read to your Lordships a passage from it: " Classic conditions radar beams "- The little piece of fiction that I have always enjoyed most concerned a ilving saucer which was hovering slowly rn a circle round Centra! Park in New York and all the security forces turned out in order to do sometf.ing about it. As it went round, it became more and more dear that it was going round in a spiral and r1ot a circle and as the spiral grew f.:sr false reflections of smaller so the flying saucer grew smaller untjl it was very little more than the size of a waistcoat button going round the head of a maiden in New York Central Park. All th~ security forces converged on her because It was clear from the expres- sion on her face that she was receiving a message, at which she smiled. Finally. the \vaistcoat button feii on to the path and was picked up and proved to be a waistcoat button and the security forces converged upon the maiden and bullied her into telling them-and she did not want to-what the flying saucer had told her. She said "I don't \Vant to, because it will spoil it all." They said " Never mind. it may be very important for the securitv of the United States ". She said " Weli. all it said was 'Don't be unhappy; you are not the only lonely object in the universe'." I think that is a much more comforting thought with which to approach the subject of flying saucers than to sup- pose that they are engaged iq some kind of irnperialism. . this tunes in very much with what the noble Lord, Lord Trefgarne, said-- " existet:l in the- atmosphere over New Zealand 0n the nights that the UFOs were spotted at the <'nd of December, Christchurch meteorologist, Dr. Neil Cherry, has reported. UFOs were both spotted oa radar and seen by an airiin<:: pilot, and a brilliant light wa~ subsequently filmed by an airborne TV crew"'. There is nothing in that report tosuggest whether the optical sightings and the radar sightings came from the same point, or on the same alignment, or at the same time. We shall have to wait until the details become available. 1 was much impressed by everything that the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Norwich had to say on this matter and by some of the things which the noble Lord, Lord Davies of Leek, had to say, too. I do not think that anybody who reads the C. S. Lewis trilogy of space H.L. 8 Q2 ... -. ·::·· ~: ....... - ,-·-7~' .. ._, ... ,. : ,;; ; ~'it··· ..~ . ,.,,,,
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