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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. 40 …But, unlike with the aircraft reported by the noble Earl, I have never seen one. I…
  • p. 46 …It is not quite enough to explain the earthquakes. It does not mean that the mystery…
  • p. 47 …explain the black holes about which we talk. We are talking of mysteries that we never…
  • p. 53 …I should believe merely that I had seen it---something that I could not explain; and…
  • p. 58 …On the contrary, we welcome something we cannot explain because it is a new phenomenon which…
  • p. 59 …l should lib:1 have never seen ball lightning, but the 1 to go into the…
  • p. 112 ..~ say that in the Air Force, for tne moment, they have never seemed to come directly…
  • p. 161 …anomalies on the r~dars, of the elements which ~fair defence does not manage to explain…
  • p. 177 …informed that 11so far the military have never found anything of an~~gressive nature from the…
  • p. 192 …Let me assure this House that Her Majesty's Government has never been approached by people…
  • p. 214 …Let me assure this Rouse that Her Majesty's Government has never been approached by people…
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• ce Studies through us - all the documents that we bad - it is actually
~te disturbing. I think that the gendarmes .are serious people and that when
the gen~es make a report, they do not do it hapbazarciq,· and that ~f there
were only one or two, you could say that the gendarmes' sincerity was suspect.
But I must say that there are a great number of gendarmes' reports which are
very varied. It should be said that when they report incidents, if you like,
which have been reported to them, few of them, but all the same some, report
phenomena at ground level, you know, changes in the ground. All thie, if you
like, is still quite fragmented. I think, to conclude on this matter, that
we must adopt an extremely open attitude of mind to all this, not put into
doubt the sincerity of people, some of whom are obviously sincere, but at the
moment it is really far too soon to draw the least conclusion.
Armed Forces Public Relations Information Service
1st Division Pario 21 February 1974
Summary - Analysis Office
Analysis Sheet of the Sp~ken Press Interview
Station: France Inter
Time
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.. 21 February 1974
1300 hours
Subject: Interview with M Galley on UFOs.
Jean-Claude Bourret, for the first time a member of the government is breaking
tho ~all of silence, a silence which politicians assume when the subject
under discussion is UFOs, in other words, flying saucers:
M Robert Galley
Actually the Minister responsible for National Defence, that is, a man who
knows the problems of air defence since ~s concern air defence first of all,

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