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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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“The Advance”16 pages

  • p. 13 …be exported to alien civilizations; as the densest planet in the solar system, the · Earth had…
  • p. 40 …knowledge were more advanced or if we had more information about the sightings in question. It…
  • p. 43 …It was just before the Americans had landed on the moon. Sir Frank said that he…
  • p. 54 …ls it not presumptuous, the argument goes, to suppose that elsewhere in space creatures more advanced…
  • p. 62 …One of the most advanced experimental stations at Jodrell Bank-just take these statistics on board…
  • p. 66 …the active list of the Navy at a very advanced age, had lived into the age…
  • p. 128 …The Government consider that, overall, the t protocols mark a valuable advance in humanitarian law applicable…
  • p. 155 …The/Government consider that, overall, the t~ protocols mark a valuable advance in humanitarian law applicable…
  • p. 190 …the Gallipots campaign in 1975, an en~; ire British regiment, the First Fotirth Norfolks, -was advancing…
  • p. 192 …This was once explained by the claim that aliens had advance bases the other side of…
  • p. 196 …Lord Clancarty if the latt~r will give advance notice. I repeat the advice I gave…
  • p. 206 …Lord Clancarty if the latt€r will give advance notice. I repeat the advice I gave…
  • p. 212 …the Gallipots campaign in 1975, an en~; ire British regiment, the First Fourth Norfolks, -was advancing…
  • p. 214 …This was once explained by the claim that aliens had advance bases the other side of…
  • p. 477 …In advance of conducting a careful review of the documentation this sum remains an estimate only…
  • p. 481 …In advance of conducting a careful review of the documentation this sum remains an estimate only…
!REDACTION ON ORIGINAL DOCUMENT I
fViiNISTP.Y OF DEFENCE
Main BUilding Whitehall London SW1A2HB
. •T~lephone 01 ~"?~n:-ert21
~~ & Space Dept ..
Foreign & Co~~onwealth Office
Do1·ming St (East)
Your reference
ou·r reference
D/S4(Air)8/3
London SW 1A 2AI, Dato ·
tlti.. Deceuber 1977
DearNr-.
vie spoke earlier today about the United Natim.1~"3 resoJ.ution .
concerning an investige.tion into Unidentified Flying Obj ec·t;s.
2. Since ue r.eed to adviss our !·iinister
con..."lection ui-'ch a Parlia'nentary Enq_uiry, I
if you \-tOuld confirm that my unclerstanding
stated below, is correct;-
thi . . .1. •
on ... s sunJec ... ~n
should be 7ery grate~~
of the situ.ation, as
a. The resolution has been .shel-ved indefina-'.;ely, a:'1(1 it
was su~gested that countries interested in co-ordinatine
invest~gations should pool their resources. .
b. The UK did not support, nor 1-rish to be associated \•Ti th
the resolution, it being considered that partioipation in
such an investigation cou.ld bring the United !!"~~tions into
disrepute.
Yours sincerely

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