“RAF”42 pages
- p. 4 …RAF BUSINESS SECRETARIAT
HQ AIR COMMAND
RAF HIGH WYCOMBE
## PART 4 DESTRUCTION CERTIFICATE
It is certified…
- p. 26 …report) to the CAA (and presumably the RAF). Given that fact, do DAO hold any record…
- p. 40 …should be made available to the appropriate RAF Air Defence and other military and civil authorities…
- p. 46 …2000
DCDI
DG(R&T)
ADGE
IFS(RAF) (FS ATC)
HQ MATO (OPS (LF) 1)
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- p. 47 …DCDI, IFS(RAF), HQ MATO, - Executive Summary UKADGE
UKADGE - Executive Summary and Volume 3
DGR&T…
- p. 49 …Indeed, I made some enquiries with RAF Fylingdales in November 2005 in response to an FOI…
- p. 50 …I'm sure that either DAO or RAF Fylingdales would have been aware of the presence…
- p. 51 …Indeed, I made some enquiries with RAF Fylingdales
- p. 52 …We do not therefore contact RAF Fylingdales every time we receive a sighting report.
I hope…
- p. 54 …Indeed, I made some enquiries with RAF Fylingdales in November 2005 in response to an FOI…
- p. 55 …I'm sure that either DAO or RAF Fylingdales would have been aware of the presence…
- p. 57 …the summary, namely DGR&T, DCDI, IFS(RAF), DI51, UKADGE and HQ MATO. It would appear…
- p. 59 …the summary, namely DGR&T, DCDI, IFS(RAF), DI51, UKADGE and HQ MATO. It would appear…
- p. 60 …Indeed, I made some enquiries with RAF Fylingdales in November 2005 in response to an FOI…
- p. 61 …I'm sure that either DAO or RAF Fylingdales would have been aware of the presence…
- p. 62 …I'm sure that either DAO or RAF Fylingdales would have been aware of the presence…
- p. 64 …the summary, namely DGR&T, DCDI, IFS(RAF), DI51, UKADGE and HQ MATO. It would appear…
- p. 65 …In favour of disclosing this information is the public interest in promoting understanding of the RAF…
- p. 69 …It should also be noted that the report contains reference to unexplained RAF aircraft accidents and…
- p. 73 …The report suggests that there is a possibility that unexplained RAF aircraft accidents or near miss…
- p. 74 …In the course of this study RAF Aircraft Accidents over a 30 year period were examined…
- p. 76 …It should also be noted that the report contains reference to unexplained RAF aircraft accidents and…
- p. 80 …The report suggests that there is a possibility that unexplained RAF aircraft accidents or near miss…
- p. 85 …The information relating to him being RAF aircrew relates to a paragraph in the 3-page…
- p. 86 …As he was neither an employee of the MOD or in the RAF, the MOD does…
- p. 87 …As he was neither an employee of the MOD or in the RAF, the MOD does…
- p. 88 …As a former MoD employee/RAF aircrew he must have a forwarding address for pensions and…
- p. 89 …As a former MoD employee/RAF aircrew he must have a forwarding address for pensions and…
- p. 95 …back to the 1950s, who has an RAF background and has acted as an advisor on…
- p. 100 …Cartmel, signal from RAF Topcliffe to Air Ministry, 1952, briefings on unidentified aircraft tracked by radar…
- p. 101 AIR 2/18564 RAF West Freugh: UFO report. Request to release information on UFO report, 1971…
- p. 102 …BBC 2 TV
AF/419 1971-72
AIR 2/19125 Reported sightings of UFOs, RAF Patrington…
- p. 107 …edited copies D/DS8/75/2/2Pt F August-October 1978
## Air Defence DD Ops (RAF…
- p. 108 …Air Traffic Control and UFOs 1977-78
D/IPS(RAF)/42/10/3
Database copyright Dr…
- p. 110 …back to the 1950s, who has an RAF background and has acted as an advisor on…
- p. 126 …3) There are references to flight safety aspects and a suggestion that past unexplained RAF aircraft…
- p. 129 …the report received from the USAF at RAF Woodbridge concerning the Rendlesham Forest incident. The file…
- p. 134 …the report received from the USAF at RAF Woodbridge concerning the Rendlesham Forest incident. The file…
- p. 145 …This may contain the description "Unexplained Lights" or UFO report from RAF Woodbridge" as the case…
- p. 148 …radar - and on one occasion photographed - near RAF Machrihanish in Scotland. On an earlier occasion a…
- p. 149 …Were the sightings made around RAF Machrihanish ever accounted for as aircraft or natural phenomena, to…
- p. 159 …These may contain the description "Unexplained Lights" or "UFO report from RAF Woodbridge" as the case…
## Section 40
Directorate of Air Staff-Freedom of Information Ministry of Defence 5th Floor, Zone H Main Building Whitehall London SW1A 2HB
Answere
JGmc.
11 April 2007
## FOI Request
## Dear Section 40
I wish to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act for information relating to MoD's internal discussions concerning public statements made by a former desk officer on the subject of UFOs.
As you will no doubt be aware one of your predecessors, Mr Nick Pope, who was Sec(AS)2a from 1991-94, publicly declared his conversion to "a believer" in UFOs in 1995 after he left the post (Mail on Sunday, 2 July 1995). In the following year a book he had written about UFOs, and his experience as a desk officer responsible for dealing with public inquiries about UFOs on behalf of MoD, Open Skies Closed Minds, was published. The book set out Mr Pope's belief that UFOs did pose a possible defence threat to the UK in stark contrast to the publicly stated MoD policy (which remains in place today) that the phenomenon has been repeatedly judged, most recently by the DIS report on UAPs, to be "of no defence significance."
I am fully aware that Mr Pope's statements, during his employment with the MoD, were made in a private capacity and that he was not authorised to speak on behalf of the MoD. I also appreciate that the Data Protection Act 1998 protects information of a personal nature. Nevertheless during his employment, and specifically in 1995-96, Mr Pope was a serving MoD officer and the stance that MoD decided to adopt in response to his very public statements - that were clearly in contrast to the department's stated line - must fall within the category of information defined as "in the public interest."