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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.

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  • p. 40 …Luke's Gospel, and I shall read it ifl may: - " And it was about the sixth…
  • p. 46 …I would, therefore, suggest to them that they read H. G. Wells' Final Efsay. They can…
  • p. 58 …What sort of an interpretation would somebody who had H.L.8 Q never read about…
  • p. 59 …However, before that I saw it myself / in rather odd circumstances, after having 1 read about…
  • p. 60 …I do not think that anybody who reads the C. S. Lewis trilogy of space H…
  • p. 61 …other th solar sy even th spotted · read th It was Venus have de of the…
  • p. 62 …it is a pity we did not read the rest of the subsequent report. It was…
  • p. 65 …nowadays in witchnaft, perhaps he docs not read the right newspapers, but I can assure him…
  • p. 69 …I have read the transcript of M.·There is a category of UFO cases which are…
  • p. 71 …It read: •· You are ail familiar with an ordinary telephone directory. f you wallt to speak…
  • p. 122 …for "immobile" (motionless) whereupon the entry would read "successively motionless and fast" which would make slightly…
  • p. 171 …for "immobile" (motionless) whereupon the entry would read "successively motionless and fast" which would make slightly…
  • p. 186 …However, on starting to re- read the Earl of Clancarty's book 'MYsterious Visitors' I have…
  • p. 198 …Lord Strabolgi \vill be reading the speech again today and will let me know as soon…
  • p. 200 …I do not suggest, unless you particularly wish to do so, that you read the transcript…
  • p. 202 …Lord Strabolgi 1.Jill be reading the speech again today and will let me know as…
  • p. 204 …I do not suggest, unless you particularly wish to do so, that you read the transcript…
  • p. 208 …However, on starting to re- read the Earl of Clancarty•s book 'MYsterious Visitors• I have…
  • p. 456 …Police. (The file copy is difficult to read and despite our best efforts it has not…
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A •0 r).' ·· There has been ·no approach to Governments, and no direct
knowledge of UFOs by Governments. Lord Clancarty has an
answer: there is a great inter-Governmental conspiracy of
silence, initiated by the CIA.
15. ~he idea of the inter-Governmental conspiracy of silence
is at once the most astonishing and the most flattering claim
of all. On so few things can the Governments of the \Torld agree
unaminously, but they have all supposedly agreed to conceal the
evide~ce of UFOs from their peoples. Let me assure this House
that Her Majesty's Government has never been approached by
people from outer space.
16. There·is no internal consistency about the idea of this huge
number of sightings. If they have come from another solar system,
l'That is the point of this huge number of visits to our planet,
to no apparcut purpose? At best it seems wasteful. This was
once explained by the claim that aliens had advance bases the
other side of the moon. When that became untenable the bases
were assumed to be on another planet in our solar system. As
that has become untenable ever more fantastic explanations are
advanced. In a recent TV broadcast Lord Clancarty claimed that
the UFOs are based in a great hole in the earth. Elsewhere he
has claimed that they have bases in remote parts of South America,
or in the depths of the oceans. Becauseihese physical place~
have become untenable he has claime~ that (I quote): 'UFOs are
paranormal, that is from invisible universes'. They come from
•other space-time continua'. Another ufologist talks of 'space
mind/full mind/Nana•. Indeed the explanations get more and mor~
fantastic, and more and more incapable of e;. i;her proof or dis-
proof.
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