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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.

  • p. 13 …the neighbourhood and might also have plant life and other materials which would be of interest…
  • p. 16 …SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND INVESTIGATION IHTO EXTRATERR£STRIAL LIFE, INCLUDI~G UNIDENTIFIED FLY lNG OBJECTS, AND TO…
  • p. 42 …Cor,1mander Even if one accepts that there may be life Robert McLaughiin, United States Navy…
  • p. 44 …Mars, by saying: " The hope of finding life on Mars has evaporated, together with the canals…
  • p. 47 …Is the earth the only planet populated by intelligent technological life? I do not know and…
  • p. 51 …to be compatible wirh any form of life. Thus, from \vhence do t11ey come? They can…
  • p. 52 …or rott>ntiai horrors of our esrthly life. Vihe:1 we bclic\'ed that if we…
  • p. 56 …Tbeir motive power would be of huge help to our transport and industrial life, for they…
  • p. 57 …Na a child, I form with This prese initiating gel me in Having r life and…
  • p. 58 …Having remembered the rebuke all my life and acted upon it, I am not prepared to…
  • p. 96 …We sometimes take the line: 'The MOD does not dismiss the possibility that intelligent life could…
  • p. 100 …the infirm and the lonely, for whom ·life .without the· broadcasting services would indeed be a…
  • p. 136 …do not dismiss the possibility that intelligent life could exist in O)..l.ther space bu…
  • p. 142 …We sometimes take the line: 'The :r;roD does not dismiss the possibility that intelligent life…
  • p. 145 …the infirm and the lonely, for whom ·life without the· broadcasting services would indeed be a…
  • p. 182 …do not dismiss the possibility that intelligent life could exist· in O"J.tther space but…
  • p. 187 …in~eJligent life could exist elsewhere in the universe. With 100,000 million stars in our…
  • p. 209 …intelligent life could exist else,-There in the- _, universe. \•lith 100,000 million stars in our…
  • p. 452 …level scientific research and investigation into extraterrestrial life, including UFOs and to inform the Secretary-General…
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A/SPC/33/SR.36
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8. ¥~. FRIDAY (Grenada) invited members of the Co~nittee to make suggest
recommendations concernine; the draft resolution submitted by his delegation ·
(A/SPC/33/L.20); his deleeation was very flexible as to the actual mechanism to be
decided on by the Comraittee for monitorin~ and co-ordinating research into UFOs and
"lmuld be interested to hear the ideas of other delccations on the ruatter. He
assumed that the vote on the resolution 1:rould take place at a later date.
9. The CHAIRiiJA.i:{ said tha.t the substantive consideration of and vote on the
resolution would be deferred. tmtil a later meetin~.
10. Mr. TUBHAN (Liberia.) requested that the ste>.tements made by the members of the
delegatioi.1 of Grenada should be reproduced in extenso in the records so that
delegates could study the~1 more closely.
11. The CHAIR!1Al'-T recalled that the General Assembly, at the 4th plenary meetin~ of
its current session, had decided to maintain the option t!1at had traditionally been
approved for the Specbl Political Cormnittee to obtcJ.in transcriptions of debate-s of
some of its meetings, or portions thereof.
12. r-1iss HARDSN (United Kingdom) asked •rhat the financial implications of suc~1
action uould be.
13. The CHAiill1Al'J said that such expenditure e.s micht be incurred by the prov1.swn
of transcriptions of the Can...'"!littee' s debates was considered to be part of the normal
vork of the General Assembly; there lrere no :direct financio.l implications. If lie
heard no objection, he would ta."l{e it that the CorfJ11ittee approved the request made.
by tb~ representative of Liberia.
14. It was so decided.
The meetin~ rose at 4.15 p.m •
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