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UFO highlights guide 2013

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This highlights guide from The National Archives describes the tenth and final release of Ministry of Defence UFO files: 25 files with 4,400 pages covering the MoD UFO desk from late 2007 to its closure in November 2009. It explains how to use the PDF bookmarks and summarises key stories. These include the briefing that recommended closing the desk, a public disclosure campaign, a sharp rise in sightings linked to Chinese lanterns, and reports sorted by location.

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  • p. 2 …In December 2008 the UFO desk moved to RAF High Wycombe and the remaining 15 files…
  • p. 3 RAF‟s Air Command. This recommends that MoD „should seek to reduce very significantly the UFO…
  • p. 4 …Reaction to media coverage In an email dated 2 June 2009 to RAF Business Secretariat, the…
  • p. 6 …UFOs on Radar An account of a retired RAF Flight lieutenant who witnessed the tracking of…
  • p. 7 …The RAF studied radar tapes and identified the „UAP‟ as possibly one of a number of…
DEFE 24/2449/1: p. 82-96.
Essex:
DEFE 24/2457/1: p. 78;
DEFE 24/2454/1: p. 246-7;
DEFE 24/2628/1: p. 112;
DEFE 24/2461/1: p. 135-38.
Hampshire:
DEFE 24/2628/1: p. 130-34;
DEFE 24/2623/1: p. 197-200;
DEFE 24/2460/1: p. 131-32.
Hertfordshire:
DEFE 24/2460/1: p. 23.
Kent:
DEFE 24/2623/1: p. 124;
DEFE 24/2624/1: p. 32;
DEFE 24/2463/1: p. 113.
Lancashire:
DEFE 24/2628/1: p. 103;
DEFE 24/2451/1: p. 134;
DEFE 24/2456/1: p. 186-90, 179;
DEFE 24/2624/1: p. 8;
DEFE 24/2459/1: p. 218.
Lincolnshire:
DEFE 24/2451/1: p. 19, 173-74
DEFE 24/2459/1: p. 144;
DEFE 24/2452/1: p. 6;
DEFE 24/2627/1: p. 73, 65.
London:
DEFE 24/2623/1: p. 113;
DEFE 24/2625/1: p. 119;
DEFE 24/2623/1: p. 142;
DEFE 24/2626/1: p. 156-57;
DEFE 24/2627/1: p. 33;
DEFE 24/2459/1: p. 43-45;
DEFE 24/2463/1: p. 80;
DEFE 24/2464/1: p. 147.
Manchester:
DEFE 24/2452/1: p. 56-58, 59-61;
DEFE 24/2623/1: p. 226.
Merseyside:
DEFE 24/2465/1: p. 236-39.
North Wales:

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