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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…
enda..'"mea ~e·.~\~;~o~~ f~.~ple. ~!hen th?Y cake a report, the g-1ndarmes do ·•·
.t do it haphazardly: and if there were only one or two, you could aa.y tbat
the gendarmes' sincerity waG suspect. But I must say that there is a great
number of gendarmes' reports which are very varied, it mus~ be said. Some-
times they relate facts, if you like, vhich··bave been reported to tl:-.em, few
of them but al.l the same some talk of phenomena at ground level,· y~u know 1 of
changes in the ground, all this, if you like, is still quite fragmentary. I
think, to conclude if you like in this matter, that we must adopt an extremely
open attitude of mind to all this, not put in doubt the sincerity of people,
soma of whom are obviously sincere, but at the m~ment it is really far too
soon to draw the least conclu13ion."
Yves Mourousi
I trould remind you that you will be able to hear the whole of this interview
this ev:ning at 2030 hou,..s in, the program.11~ "No Panic" on France Inter.
MOD Ling Service
GLS/2997
VJR
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