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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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david clarke Section 40 13 March 2006 16:51 Section 40 Re: FOI Request ## Dear Section 40 Thank you for your email and attachment dated March 8, in reply to my request for an update on progress with my FOI request. The answers provided were indeed very useful and I'm conscious of not asking anything else that might cause any further delays in the processing of my request. However, I must say I find the reply to q1 concerning MoD being unable to trace the whereabouts of the author of the UAP report a little difficult to believe. As a former MoD employee/RAF aircrew he must have a forwarding address for pensions and even if that's not the case the private company he worked for must be known and contactable. Other than that point, I do hope that DIS and your experts are aware that any material that is redacted or with-held from this report - for whatever good reason - will be interpreted as more evidence of a "cover up" or whitewash by the believer brigade. For that reason, I will have to challenge those deletions so I'm hoping that everything they redact is absolutely necessary, rather than a case of being overcautious. On a lighter note, I was interested to read the article "The Truth is Out there" from Focus magazine, which has been posted on the MoD website, containing an interview with yourself and Section 40 It's good to see your office playing a proactive role in this way and I hope we'll see more of it in future. I couldn't help but notice your remark about there being no "UFO Project." When Section 40 notified members of the UFO Updates news group about his article in the same issue, he neglected to mention the article which interviews members of your office. He also posted a version of his article which opens with the line "...the Ministry of Defence's UFO Project...", see: http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2006/mar/m11-003.shtml Could you confirm that this line did not appear in the published article in Focus. This might seem a little niggly, but there seems to be quite a contradiction going on, with one person saying there was and is a "UFO Project" and the official line being that there isn't and never was such a thing. Could you send me an original copy of the March issue of the magazine for my files? yours sincerely Dr David Clarke Assistant Editor of focus confirmed it is fine to send Dr Clarke a copy of Focus. 20/3/2005 Section 40
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