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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.
THE EARL OF CLANCARTY AN SYlER MONDAY, 28TH NOVEI·ffiER 1977 ' To ask Her Majesty's Government lrThether they are aware that in an interview on France-Inter radio on 21 February 1974 Nonsieur Robert Galley, then French Ninister of Defence, stated that his Ninistry had set up a section in 1954 to study eyewitn~ss accounts of unidentified flying objects; and vrhether our l•Iinistry of Defence also has a section to investigate these unidentified flying objects. The Government has no record of a statement made in February 1974 by the then French ~linister of Defence. Our ltinistry of Defence has no specific organisation engaged on the examination of reports of unidentified flying objects; reports are examined by specialist staffs as part ·of their normal duties to see if they contain any implications for the defence of the United Kingdom. Investigations into any scientific signifi-eance of phenomena T.vhich go beyond defence interests are not carried out.by the Department.
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