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HQ AIR COMMAND
RAF HIGH WYCOMBE
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- 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…
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- p. 47 …DCDI, IFS(RAF), HQ MATO, - Executive Summary UKADGE
UKADGE - Executive Summary and Volume 3
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- 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.
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- 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
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- p. 108 …Air Traffic Control and UFOs 1977-78
D/IPS(RAF)/42/10/3
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- 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…
## 10 August 2005
Dear Air Chief Marshal Sir Anthony Bagnall
I have asked the Ministry of Defence to forward this letter to you as I understand that you recently retired as Vice Chief of the Defence Staff.
I am working on a post-doctoral project at the University of Sheffield which is examining the evolution of Ministry of Defence policy towards the subject of unidentified flying objects. In particular, I am researching the relationship between media and public interest in UFOs and how this was reflected in MoD policy.
I should point out am not concerned with the existence, or otherwise, of a "real" phenomenon (as opposed to misidentifications of known objects) and I am fully aware that MoD's interest was restricted to establishing if UFO reports had defence implications, i.e. as intruder aircraft.
The specific question I wish to ask relates to the period in which you served as Assistant Chief of Air Staff at MoD, which according to your biography was late 1992-July 1994. This happens to coincide with a time when a number of accounts were published by the media, and questions asked by MPs, concerning stealthy triangular-shaped flying objects that were said to have been seen, both visually and on radar - and on one occasion photographed - near RAF Machrihanish in Scotland. On an earlier occasion a similar object, accompanied by a KC-135 and F-111s, was reportedly sighted from an oil rig in the North Sea by a trained ROC observer and reported widely in the media.
Papers I have obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FoIA) show these stories were also circulating within the MoD secretariat responsible for UFOs and among the Air Staff late in 1992 and early 1993. They suggest that ACAS and his opposite number in the USA were also concerned by reports in Janes' Defence Weekly and The Scotsman newspaper which claimed the sightings might relate to the alleged US "black project" aircraft Aurora which some media reports claimed had been operating in UK airspace. On several occasions this matter was raised in the House of Commons and the answer given was that no permission had been given and no aircraft of this type had visited.