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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.

  • p. 7 …I apologise for the quality of the Facsimile message from RAF Neatishead. We have checked with…
  • p. 313 …Sector Operations Centre (South) at RAF Neatishead have told D Air Def's staff that nothing…
  • p. 381 …Sector Operations Centre (South) at RAF Neatishead have told D Air Def's staff that nothing…
  • p. 394 …The lights observed from Skegness were captured on video which is being sent to RAF Neatishead…
  • p. 397 …RAF Neatishead if any aircraft activity was present on the radar in that area; Neatishead had…
  • p. 398 …Meanwhile, CRC Neatishead's inquiries had revealed no sign of air movements or military exercises in…
  • p. 417 …Tornado F3 QRA aircraft are held on high alert at RAF Leuchars but not routinely at…
  • p. 418 …No copy was sent to Neatishead. b. RAF Air Defence Ground Environment units, including CRC Neatishead…
  • p. 427 …The lights observed from Skegness were captured on video which is being sent to RAF Neatishead…
  • p. 430 …RAF Neatishead if any aircraft activity was present on the radar in that area; Neatishead had…
  • p. 431 …Meanwhile, CRC Neatishead's inquiries had revealed no sign of air movements or military exercises in…
  • p. 448 …Torna o F3 QRA aircraft are held on high alert at RAF Leuchars b t ot…
  • p. 449 …No copy was sent to Neatishead. b. RAF Air Defence Ground Environment units, including CRC Neatishead…
  • p. 456 …RAF Neatishead to GESM dated 5 Oct 1996 attached to a transcipt of conversations between Neatishead…
  • p. 463 Copies of report made by RAF Fylingdales, North Yorkshire, of unidentified objects tracked by the BMEWS…
  • p. 471 …Copies of report made by RAF Fylingdales, North Yo~kshire, of unidentified ~·;}.Y' object/s tracked…
  • p. 477 …Copies of UFO reports made in the early hours of30/31 March 1993 by RAF and…
  • p. 491 …Copies of UFO reports made in the early hours of 30/31 March 1993 by RAF…
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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