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MOD file DEFE 24/2032/1

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This Ministry of Defence file, released through The National Archives and published by The Black Vault, holds the MOD's 2002 handling of Dr David Clarke's requests for UFO documents under the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information. It includes the MOD's 9 December 2002 reply, which covered reports from 1976, 1980, 1993 and 1996 and charged £260. It also contains internal emails and file requisitions, plus Foreign Office and United Nations papers from 1978 on Grenada's proposal for UFO research.

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  • p. 40 …Luke's Gospel, and I shall read it ifl may: - " And it was about the sixth…
  • p. 46 …I would, therefore, suggest to them that they read H. G. Wells' Final Efsay. They can…
  • p. 58 …What sort of an interpretation would somebody who had H.L.8 Q never read about…
  • p. 59 …However, before that I saw it myself / in rather odd circumstances, after having 1 read about…
  • p. 60 …I do not think that anybody who reads the C. S. Lewis trilogy of space H…
  • p. 61 …other th solar sy even th spotted · read th It was Venus have de of the…
  • p. 62 …it is a pity we did not read the rest of the subsequent report. It was…
  • p. 65 …nowadays in witchnaft, perhaps he docs not read the right newspapers, but I can assure him…
  • p. 69 …I have read the transcript of M.·There is a category of UFO cases which are…
  • p. 71 …It read: •· You are ail familiar with an ordinary telephone directory. f you wallt to speak…
  • p. 122 …for "immobile" (motionless) whereupon the entry would read "successively motionless and fast" which would make slightly…
  • p. 171 …for "immobile" (motionless) whereupon the entry would read "successively motionless and fast" which would make slightly…
  • p. 186 …However, on starting to re- read the Earl of Clancarty's book 'MYsterious Visitors' I have…
  • p. 198 …Lord Strabolgi \vill be reading the speech again today and will let me know as soon…
  • p. 200 …I do not suggest, unless you particularly wish to do so, that you read the transcript…
  • p. 202 …Lord Strabolgi 1.Jill be reading the speech again today and will let me know as…
  • p. 204 …I do not suggest, unless you particularly wish to do so, that you read the transcript…
  • p. 208 …However, on starting to re- read the Earl of Clancarty•s book 'MYsterious Visitors• I have…
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* Two cases near an urban area
• Six cases near isolated dwellings.
• Twelve cases in an isolated region without any dwellings. . .
Of these twenty cases, only eight mention traces of imprints in the ground.
Characteristics of the phenomenon
The least that can be said is that the form of the phenomena observed, their
dimensions; colouxsetc, are of the most variable, as can be j~dged frcmthe
following tables.
-.FORM COLOUR NATURE OF LUMINOSITY I
VARIOUS 1~ FIXED BUW VERY VARIOUS 1'?% VARIOUS 11~I
PIN-POINTS 9% CHANGING 1'7% NON LUMINOUS
. DOMED ~ METALLic; ai·rfo GLOWING
OVOID 1~% WHITE rl% BRIGHT
CIGAR SHAPE, CYLINDER 1~ ORAN<li 1~ BRTIJ.TANT
ROUND, CIRCULAR, RED 1~ LUMINOUS
SPID!RICAL ~
DISCS 165' I
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Dimensions
Here again we find a very wide range of data. . Each case seems to be a special
case. In 38.64% there is no information. In 41.82% there is an apparent
diame~er which cannot be restituted because of inaccuracy over distance. In ~
of cases, the diameter is of the order of 1 meter. In 4.~ of cases, of the
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18%
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order of 7 to 10 meters. In the other cases it varies between 1 meter and 70 meters.
Speed and traj:ecto:.z. ...
This speed variation observed inthe movements of_ the phenomena observed can be
explained by the fact that it corresponds to portions of the trajectory which are

Cases discussed

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