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MOD file DEFE 24/2032/1

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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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L. The Foreign Office might have given us some indication when they trans-
ferred these papers of the line they have taken a.t the United Nations Orgal1i-
sation. You will recall from the press reports that a debate on unidentified
flying objects has been held there recently at the vequest of the Prime
Minister of Grenada. However, we have tracked down a Mrllllllin the Energy,
Science and Space Department of FCO who tells us (and, I hope, will confirm
in writing) that a UN resolution calling for an investigation into UFOs has
been shelved indefinitely. The UK did not support the resolution, the view
being that such an investigation would bring the UN into disrepute. Matters
now rest, I believe, on the understanding that countries interested in a UFO
investigation should pool their resources.
2. Mr 1111 does not seem to be particularly interested in his constituent's
request - I suggest a reply as attached.
\~ December 1977

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