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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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Rbl\~RT OF AN UNIDill~T.IFIED FLYING OBJECT
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·· D t m· d n..- J.. • .9' .. l30300Z to l304lOZ SEP 80. A•.. · a a, ~l.ma an .vw.·a.~.~::~.on o"'
Signting.
B. DESCRIPTION OF OBJECT
"'('1\fumoer · o.t'ob"jec·cs "~ sizo "~
shape, colour, brightness)
Circle of 4 brignt lights,.
Cone shaped changing to
Diamond shaped.
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c. ·. EXACT POSITION OF OBSERVER
T:Lo"c'a~~io.,.... , iud.o"o7./ outd.o'or-;
stationt·~· 1 moving)
D. H0\·1 OBSERVED
E •.
Tiifaleed eye 7 binoculm:•s ,·
other optical devices,
s·till oz- movie)
D:CHECTION IN HHICH OBJECT
J!Iii8'r o:C: t!a\l
..(.A1aud.illrn may be mo:re
useful than a badly estimated
bearing)
Outdoors, Moving slowly uptb\'
speeds of 60 MPH.
Naked eye.
movir:g in an EasterlY directio~'l
from Leeds to York •
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F. .ANGLE OF SIGHT
1]st-imated-hefghts are Very Low to 2000 1
unxeliable)
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Ti3y reference to known ·
H.
land.L:lark)
110VE.i'1ENTS
TUhanges in E, F and G may
be of more uae than est~mates
ot course and speed)
None
!
No changes in course but speed 1~
was var1able. I
'1
I
J. ~~j~~i5f:~N;S__l2~Bffi Gale conditionS in area. i
I T{fJ.oufl.."ct.,-bJ4.'7;fJ, miet etc) - J
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