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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 …But, unlike with the aircraft reported by the noble Earl, I have never seen one. I…
  • p. 46 …It is not quite enough to explain the earthquakes. It does not mean that the mystery…
  • p. 47 …explain the black holes about which we talk. We are talking of mysteries that we never…
  • p. 53 …I should believe merely that I had seen it---something that I could not explain; and…
  • p. 58 …On the contrary, we welcome something we cannot explain because it is a new phenomenon which…
  • p. 59 …l should lib:1 have never seen ball lightning, but the 1 to go into the…
  • p. 112 ..~ say that in the Air Force, for tne moment, they have never seemed to come directly…
  • p. 161 …anomalies on the r~dars, of the elements which ~fair defence does not manage to explain…
  • p. 177 …informed that 11so far the military have never found anything of an~~gressive nature from the…
  • p. 192 …Let me assure this House that Her Majesty's Government has never been approached by people…
  • p. 214 …Let me assure this Rouse that Her Majesty's Government has never been approached by people…
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