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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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r-------- eUFOs - DRAFT CLOSING ADDRESS There are three erains of truth upon \'Thich the e;r8at myth of ufoloe;y is built. FIRST: SECOND: THIRD: in~eJligent life could exist elsewhere in the universe. With 100,000 million stars in our own galaxy alone, it is probable that there are many planets capable of supporting life. the technical difficul·:ies of inter-stellar . -travel are stunnJ.ng.e.ven at the speed of light it would take 4 years to reach the nearest star, and 100,000 years to cross our galaxy. But it would be a brave man who said there could never, ever,be manned inter-stellar travel. ~here really are strange phenomena in the skies, arut many are reported by cool and intelligent people. 2~ Btlt it is a far cry from this to the proposition that there have been great numbers of sightings of UFOs - implying alien space craft - sometimes claimed as running into hundreds of thousands. Her ~ajesty's Government is not in the least impressed with the idea that there is anything worth investigating in the information offered by ufologists. 3.· On the one hand, there are perfectly simple explanations for the phenomena; on the other, the explanations offered by ufologists are most unconvincing. These explanations are un- convincing when they relate to space craft from other stars: they are even more unconvincing when they claim that UFOs come from another space·- time d-l'rf\tn.<;,;(}Y\.. J from a hole in the earth, or the depths of the sea, as Lord Clancarty has suggested.
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