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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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i2.48 _rh. ·mgs S~t one the ·de. lOts, 'era- !any fany :on- \';er 1the ·ear, \d-:o lyde .uto. 'the a me s in , all wal, and )fds, ay a ;tics. and ours :urn. s so ~rom erful the mity )s is -ious s for river ,tops Jther ding and ·a use the :!eed, O\ver outs. wall oing f the war. 1eing- :l off ·had after 1rnes ) 1245t Unidentified [ 18 JANUARY 1979] Flying Objects 1250 Howard, first sighted the UFOs. Some of was to make his escape. He put his plane the passengers by then were asleep. in to a dive. Then something extraordinary There \va:; one big object with six smaller happened. The second UFO turned around ones. Captain Howard pointed them and went back inside the " mother ship ". out to his co-pilot, First Officer Lee Boyd, The jet pilot's instruments started working who flew with the famous Pathfinder again. So once more he tried to pursue force in World War II. The objects were the UFO, but it moved away too rapidly, five miles from the " Centaurus ". They and so the Phantom jet returned to base. stayed parallel with the aircraft for 80 miles. From time to time the big object appeared to change shape. The radio offlcer checked with Goose Bay, Labrador, to see if any other aircraft were in the area and was told, No. Goose Bay sent a fighter up to investigate. All the crew saw the objects. Just .before the fighter arrived, the objects began to disappear, and it seemed that the smaller ones went inside the large one. Altogether, a crew of eight and 14 of the 51 passengers saw the UFOs. In November 1975, at Strategic Air Command Bases in Michigan, Montana, Ncrth Dakota and Maine, a number of UFOs were sighted over a 13 day period. Several were hovering near nuclear weapons storage areas. When interceptor planes were sent up to investigate, the UFOs dimmed their lights and became invisible. One of the most amazing UFO incidents ever occurred in Septembr, 1976. A report of this event written by Geoffrey Levy appeared in the Daily l:.xpress on 27th February, last year. I shall try and give you his ac.count in my own words. A very large glowing object was seen over· Teheran, Iran. Hundreds of witnesses telephoned the authorities. At 1.30 a.m. the Iranian Air Force scrambled a Phan- tom jet to investigate the UFO which was some 70 miles away. As the jet reached about half the distance to the UFO, all of the Iranian plane's communications and instrument systems malfunctioned. The pilot had no alternative but to return to base. A second Phantom jet took off flying faster than the speed of sound. The UFO began to move at a very fast speed indeed, and soon outpaced the jet. Then, an extraordinary thing happened. Suddenly a second smaller UFO came out of the big one, and headed straight for the jet. The jet pilot tried to release an AIM-9 air-to-air missile at the glowing object. No success at all. The weapons control panel was not working and all electronic systems were out of action. There was only one thing for the pilot to do, and that There are literally vast numbers of these astounding reports. Indeed, my Lords, this worldwide UFO invasion of every country's air space is of growing importance and therefore I suggest that Parliament keeps a continuous watch on the situation. J have thought of one way of doing this. In the same way that there is a House of Lords Defence Study Group ably chaired by the noble Lord, Lord Shinwcll, perhaps we could have a House of Lords UFO Study Group to meet periodically. If any of your Lordships are interested, please let me know! I should like to touch on the attitudes of Governments towards this subject and , to stress the need for an intra-govern- · mental study, which is the object of my Motion. I am only going to talk about four Governments, your Lordships will probably be pleased to know. First, let us take a look at the United States. I think that one of the reasons for " playing down" UFOs some years ago in the United States was the fear of panic among the public. Thi<> was partly based on an actual panic that did occur in 1938 due to a very realistic broadcast by Orson Welles of H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds. Thousands of people left their homes. However, after the war, the United States Air Force investigated pilots' reports without any debunking. Then the Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA, stepped in. The CIA controls the intelli- gence departments of the United States military services. They ordered the United States Air Force to clamp down on UFO reports. That was, I believe in 1953 and it has been going on ever since. Pilots who reported seeing UFOs were ridiculed, and after a time other pilots did not report them for fear of damaging their reputation. We had high hopes during President Carter's election campaign that there was a strong possibility of a break- through to the truth about UFOs. He disclosed during his campaign that he had seen a UFO a few years previously in Georgia, and he added that if he sot into ... ). I' j /
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