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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.
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# Directorate of Air Staff - Freedom of Information MINISTRY OF DEFENCE 5th Floor, Zone H, Main Building, Whitehall, London
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Dr David Clarke Our Reference
23-05-2006-100609-001
Date
16th June 2006
Dear Dr Clarke,
I am writing to provide a response to your Freedom of Information request contained in your letter of 22 $ ^{nd} $ May 2006. The rest of this letter has been addressed in my previous letter of 16 $ ^{th} $ June 2006. You requested copies of correspondence from the MoD Branches that commented on the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) report, copies of correspondence 'arising from subsidiary recommendations' and a list of files or records held by the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) which contain the acronym 'UAP' in the title. I can confirm that the Ministry of Defence does hold some information on this subject.
With regard to your request for "copies of correspondence arising from DIST's request to a number of MoD branches (covering letter of UAP report, dated 4 December 2000) for "comments you may wish to make on the [UAP] report...please direct such comment to AD/DI55". All accessible files for the period in question have been scrutinised, but no correspondence from the MoD Branches who were invited to comment on the report has been found.
Concerning your request for "copies of any correspondence arising from the "subsidiary recommendations" made on pg 11 of the UAP Report Executive Summary (February 2000) namely that "The flight safety aspects of the findings should be made available to the appropriate RAF Air Defence and other military and civil authorities which operate aircraft, particularly those operating fast and at low altitude". Could you confirm these findings were passed to the DAO and CAA and if so what specific recommendations have been made to aircrew as a result". The report was distributed to the addressees as outlined in the covering letter (D/DIST/11/10 dated 4 December 2000). No further correspondence regarding the 'subsidiary recommendations' has been found on the accessible files for the period in question. I can, however, confirm that the findings of the report were sent to DAO (Directorate of Air Operations) as UKADGE (UK Air Defence Ground Environment) was a post within DAO. DIS did not send the report directly to the CAA . Any further dissemination of the report would have been the decision of the addressees concerned and consultation with the DIS would not have been required.
You also requested a list of files or records which are held by the DIS which have the acronym 'UAP' in the title. The following files have been identified as relevant to this request:
DI51/272/15/1 Part 1 - New Techniques Non-Conventional Phenomena UAP - date opened unknown, date closed April 1997. Location: Archives. Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 160 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.