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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. 13 …the neighbourhood and might also have plant life and other materials which would be of interest…
  • p. 16 …SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND INVESTIGATION IHTO EXTRATERR£STRIAL LIFE, INCLUDI~G UNIDENTIFIED FLY lNG OBJECTS, AND TO…
  • p. 42 …Cor,1mander Even if one accepts that there may be life Robert McLaughiin, United States Navy…
  • p. 44 …Mars, by saying: " The hope of finding life on Mars has evaporated, together with the canals…
  • p. 47 …Is the earth the only planet populated by intelligent technological life? I do not know and…
  • p. 51 …to be compatible wirh any form of life. Thus, from \vhence do t11ey come? They can…
  • p. 52 …or rott>ntiai horrors of our esrthly life. Vihe:1 we bclic\'ed that if we…
  • p. 56 …Tbeir motive power would be of huge help to our transport and industrial life, for they…
  • p. 57 …Na a child, I form with This prese initiating gel me in Having r life and…
  • p. 58 …Having remembered the rebuke all my life and acted upon it, I am not prepared to…
  • p. 96 …We sometimes take the line: 'The MOD does not dismiss the possibility that intelligent life could…
  • p. 100 …the infirm and the lonely, for whom ·life .without the· broadcasting services would indeed be a…
  • p. 136 …do not dismiss the possibility that intelligent life could exist in O)..l.ther space bu…
  • p. 142 …We sometimes take the line: 'The :r;roD does not dismiss the possibility that intelligent life…
  • p. 145 …the infirm and the lonely, for whom ·life without the· broadcasting services would indeed be a…
  • p. 182 …do not dismiss the possibility that intelligent life could exist· in O"J.tther space but…
  • p. 187 …in~eJligent life could exist elsewhere in the universe. With 100,000 million stars in our…
  • p. 209 …intelligent life could exist else,-There in the- _, universe. \•lith 100,000 million stars in our…
  • p. 452 …level scientific research and investigation into extraterrestrial life, including UFOs and to inform the Secretary-General…
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' . IREDAC"fiON ON ORIGINAL DOCUMENT I
MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
MAIN E:sUILDING. WHITEHALL LONDON swl'-
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PQ 8530B 16th January 1979
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Following the meeting which you held \·lith Hr Stevens
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 arn~nded. I
attach a folder containing the revised version which
follmvs the line 'l;vhich you agreed.
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I also attach a more detailed background note, and,
as you requested, the transcript of the BBC television
programme on UFOs in ,.;rhich the Earl of Clancarty appeared
I and in '\-Jhich a Hrs- was interviewed and alleged that j
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 which you expressed an interest are on
--pages 23 and 24 (Mrs- and pages 26 - 29 (Lord
Clancarty) •
When '\-Je spoke on the telephone yesterday you stressed
the need for_your.speech to touch on Lord Clancarty's
*'- reference to,Honsieur· Galley'·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
I of the interview with M. Galley.
-The Box party for Thursday's debate will be Mr -,
Hr Hiss and myself.
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