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This MoD file, titled UFOs - Persistent Correspondence - Dr David Clarke, holds Dr David Clarke's Freedom of Information requests and emails to the Directorate of Air Staff from 2005 to 2008. Clarke asked for the DI55 report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region and for Rendlesham papers. He also sought records about Nick Pope. Other items include an internal review that released redacted passages on plasmas, the MoD's statement that it had no report of the 2008 South Wales police helicopter sighting, and a 2009 disposal form.
“The Unexplained Files”5 pages
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the very small selection of reports from credible witnesses that we have been sending them". Do you have anything on your policy file that shows we were told in writing? If not, I can only assume we were told over the telephone. 8. File D/DI55/108/15 Pt 4 - I wish to modify my request to encompass a search of the file enclosures between the years 1980 to 1996 for documents relating to the Rendlesham Forest UFO incident. I would be particularly interested to see any documents dated between 1981 and 1984 relating to the report received from the USAF at Woodbridge. This may contain the description "Unexplained Lights" or UFO report from RAF Woodbridge" as the case is described in the Sec(AS) file released in 2002. I note from your e-mail of 29 September that you hold three documents which mention the Rendlesham Forest incident. The Lt Col Halt memo has already been released. The other two papers may not be relevant to the request. Between 1980 and the release of our file in 2002 there has been lots of public, press and ministerial interest in this case and there is therefore bound to be papers dotted throughout our files which mention Rendlesham (I think your two papers could fall into this category). I do not think this is what Dr Clarke is looking for. I think he is seeking contemporary documents (or those produced soon after) which shed further light on the events and might have been missed when our file was released. 9. Could DIS confirm a) that the chronological dates of enclosures in the DI55 file cover the years 1971-1996 (these appear on the description of the file you supplied in a list attached to a letter dated 2004) and b) the file was not among those searched by DAS staff in 2001-2 when MOD assembled the contents of the Rendlesham file now available on the Publication Scheme. a) I note from your e-mail of 29 September that this file covers 1971 to December 1995. I will inform Dr Clarke of this. b) I do not think that this file was amongst those searched for papers on Rendlesham, but as there appears to be hardly any additional papers, I do not think this matters. 10. With regard to your letter of 21 July 2005 in response to my requests you enclosed two copies of letters copied from the file D/DS8/10/209 Pt F... Presumably, prior to 26 August 1983 Section 40 exchanged memos with Defence Records and received a reply which allowed her to frame her response to Section 40. This would presumably be filed between enclosures E40 and E58. Could you please provide a copy of the relevant papers. I have checked the file and there is no such correspondence. may well have just telephoned Defence Records. I will inform Dr Clarke.
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