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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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..• -· ,. I / MINISTRY OF DEFENCE . .......... MAIN BUILDING WHITE.HALL LONDON SW 1 ,• Te!epho"" PQ 8530B 16th January 1979 I~~~ t~yr( f h~'~:.J:.-aty~ I Following the meeting which you held '\·lith and myself on Friday 12th January the draft speech for you to make in response to the Earl of Clancarty's Unstarrcd Question on Thursday 18th January has been am~nded. I attach a folder containing the revised version which follmvs the line which you agreed. I also attach a more detailed background note, and, as you requested, the transcript of the BBC television programme on UFOs in '\vhich the Earl of Clancarty appeared I and in which a '\vas interviewed and alleged that I she had been told by telephone to say nothing about her alleged sighting of a UFO. I do not suggest, unless you particularly wish to do so, that you read the transcript; but the parts in~xpressed an interest are on -pages 23 and 24 111111111111 and pages 26 - 29 (Lord Clancarty). When we spoke on the telephone yesterday you stressed the need for your speech to touch on Lord Clancarty's reference to HonsieurGalley's attitude to UFOs. This is covered briefly in the paragraph at the bottom of page 10. I attach, as you requested, a copy of the actual transcript of the interview with M. Galley. Thursday's debate will be and myself. lju1~l Privnte Sccret2ry i . ·:. I
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