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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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•In only 8% of cases, observers are describing a phenomenon that bas really .en observed and is unlmown; The variety of characteristics of the phenomenon is such that it is n~t possible at present to formulate a definite scientific theory conce~ning its nature or origin (physical or otherwise\' it also enables us to state that this phenomenon is not th~ result of human technology. Its tangible effects on human beings are without danger. . ..:,: Given the present state of our knowledge, it seems difficult to conclude otherwise than by confirming that science is incapable in this area. This phenomenon cannot, at present, be analysed by means of known measuring instruments and, in a word, it is only thanks to the accumulation of observationSdescribing not only this phenomenon but also all the physical data regarding the environment that researchers may one da~ have the good fortune to discover the parameters that will enable them to give it a moh:l satisfactory interpretation. Whilst maintaining an open mind, we must restrain ourselves from hasty conclusions regarding the nature and origin of the phenomenon and accept the fact that this problem. like so many others, remains suspended in space. Translations of picture captions (Pictures are numbeTed in pencil on the original} ( 1) One of the r~e photographs in the world to retain its mystery: a photograph taken on January 16th 1968 opposite the island of Trinidad (Atlantic Ocean} in the presence of geophysical ~ecialists. t2) A flying saucer around the Eiffel Tower? In fact it is only a successful piece of faking: the brilliant disk is the reflection of a lamp in the window through 'Which the photoe;raph was taken from a room in the Palais de Chaillot. (3) Identified UFOs: Centicular clouds.
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