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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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Dr Clarke also asked us to check with RAF Ops (GE) (now DAO ADGE 1) and DI55 to see ifthey had any relevant papers. DAO had no files for this period. DI55 have identified papers as follows. 34. Copy of the original draft speech for Lord Strabolgi to use in his closing address to the House of Lords Debate and the covering loose minute by Head of S4(Air) dated I8 Dec I978. (Management in Confidence). 35. Background note from Head of S4(Air) to PSIUS of S(RAF) concerning the draft closing address for Lord Strabolgi. Dated I 0 January I 979. (Restricted). 36. Letter from the Private Secretary to Lord Strabolgi dated I6 Jan I979 enclosing his draft closing address. (Unclassified) 37. Letter from APS!SojS to Head of S4(Air) dated I8 January 1979 coverning (36). (Unclassified). Request 3 Copies of report made by RAF Fylingdales, North Yorkshire, of unidentified object/s tracked by the BMEWS on or about 13 September 1980, and reported to MOD. Also any sightings made by MOD Police and civilian (West Yorkshire) police officers on about the same date. Dr Clarke also expanded this request (his letter of 7 October 2002) to ask us to look for any reports from PC Alan Godfrey of Todmorden, West Yorkshire police concerning a UFO he observed in the early hours of 28 November 1980. Two files were examined. D/DS8/75/2/5 Part B (covering reports from August to November 1980) and D/DS8/75/2/2 Part M (covering edited reports from August to September 1980. This search revealed no reports from RAF Fylingdales. No reports from PC Godfrey on the 28 November 1980. As Dr Clarke requested reports "on or about 13 September" I have included all those from MOD and civilian police officers for the whole of September. This amounts to 14 reports. (All Unclassified). Request 4 Copies of UFO reports made in the early hours of30/31 March 1993 by RAF and meteorological office personnel and by members of the public, from a number of locations including RAF Cosford and RAF Shawbury. Also copies of assessment made. There is one file D/Sec(AS)12/7- Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs)- Alleged UFO incident - 3 1st March 1993. The file was put together by Mr N Pope in 1993 and contains a number of UFO reports and correspondence between Mr Pope, the Head of Sec(AS) and the ACAS.
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