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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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D/S4 (Air) /8/3 DI55 - Mr --../ Ops(GE)2b(RAFL:::: Copy tp: ACS(G)(RAF) !REDACTION ON ORIGINAL DOCUMENT I UFOs - DEBATE IN THE LORDS I enclose a first draft of a proposed concluding speech ~or Lord Strabolgi in the Lords'' debate. 2. The draft tries to take account of the points made to us on Thursday by Lord Strabolgi. However, on starting to re- read the Earl of Clancarty•s book 'MYsterious Visitors• I have appreciated more fully how heavily the Earl has hedged his bets about space travel: indeed he suggests that the 'sky I people' are 'paranormal' and come from •another space/time ll dimension•. I do not recommend trying to track the Earl through other dimensions, and suggest we stick to the bare essentials ! that we proposed to Lord Strabolg:t ·- that there are pl.enty of i phenomena, that there are perfectly sensible explanations for ! them, and that the explanations offered by ufology are unn'bessary and i prove idiotic under critical examination. 3. I would be grateful for any recent recorded cases to cover the parts of para 6; otherwise I shall draw on the Condon Report and Klase (the anti-UFO investigator). 4. Clancarty is likely to produce some •documented ~:and fully authentica~ cases•. I would like to be able to demolish one as an illus~on. I have provisionally chosen the disappearance of the Norf'olk Battalion at Gallipoli, which Clancartry quotes in one of his books: Hd of Army Historical Branch says that this is a 'regular', about which the facts can be produced. 5. I would be grateful fer comments, criticisms and additional arguments or cases. At this stage I am particularly anxious to know whether you agree to the main line of arguments. Because time is short I would be grateful for telephone comments. 6. The present draft'is about 2,000 words, around 15 minutes. 7. I have copied this minute to ACS(G)(RAF), and I be grateful for his comments on the general line of 18 December 1978
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