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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.

  • 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) AD…
  • 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…
Further to our telecon last week I mentioned that a group in the Netherlands had completed a thorough investigation of the 1990 sighting made by RAF Tornado aircrew.

The results of their findings can be seen at the following

http://www.ufonet.nl/nieuws/tornado/index2.html

(you may have to click on the UK flag to obtain a translation to English).

As I explained the UFO sighted by the Tornado crews is clearly explained here as a misinterpretation of the burning debris from the Soviet Proton-Gorizont rocket body.

It is a pity that MoD records on this case do not appear to contain any information upon this explanation. I'm sure that either DAO or RAF Fylingdales would have been aware of the presence of the space debris at the relevant time.

I notice with amusement that Mr P has again cited the Tornado sighting in the context of "unidentified" UFOs in his article in the Daily Express on 15 May, again under the byline of "Ministry of Defence UFO Project."

Yours sincerely,

David Clarke

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