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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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which are received in HOD ~re referredcto s~onsible for our Air defences to make sure that on the security of the country. No conVincing 'emerged to date that UFOs ·actually exist·or ~ave defence .._...~ ...~~=~~i,:;;o;:n...:..~.s. ·. Many reports turn out to have commonplace explanations, the most common being aircraft or aircraft lights seen under unusual. , conditions. The cause of some sightings has not been positively identified but the reports often lack essential detail. We have recently reviewed our policy on UFOs with Head of DI 54, who confirm that it is reasonable to confine our enquiries to the defence implications and that the exclusion of any investigation beyond this for MOD is not considered justified. ~ 6. There has been a series of articles on UFOs in the Daily Express recently, although these seem to be linked with publicity for the multi million pound commercial film iiClose Encounters of the Third Kind" which is shortly to be released. The Ev~:1ing NeHs of 23 February 1978 carl..ied a report about lights which :folloued a young housewife home adding that "The EaTl of Clancarty, a UFO expe:rt, believes the lights may h~ve.been those of a spacecraft sent to spy on us by an unknown civilisation from another planet. ••••• He is currently trying to get a House of Lords debate on UFOs and -.;·r...,nts an international·~ investigation". This intention has been clocu.mented in the 'No Day Named' section of the Lords' Order Paper for 28 February. 7. The book, t'The Crack in the Universe" w·hich the Earl of Clancarty referred t0 in his question of 14 December 1977 contains an OOC\1-rate translation of M Robert Galley's broadcast in 1974. It a~so introduces the transcript quite fairly (on page 75) as an interview which gave the Fdnister the opportunity to declare that "there are phenomena l'lhich are unexplained". The blurb on the dust cover, however, has M Galley freely admitting that UFOs exist and that they are a serious problem. ... ···~
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