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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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From Directorate of Air Staff (Lower Airspace) Operations & Policy 1 MINISTRY OF DEFENCE Room 6n3, Metropole Building, Northumberland Avenue, London, WC2N SBP Telephone (Direct dial) (Switchboard) (Fax) (GTN) Dr David Clarke Your Reference OYI Reference D/UAS/64/3/11 Date 31 October 2002 Dear Dr Clarke Thank you for your letter of7 October regarding your request for copies ofUFO-related documents. I will address your comments in the same order as your letter. 1. Copy of the me relating to a UFO report made by Winchester, Hampshire on 14 November 1976. • and I have now received file AIR 2/18977 from the PRO and it consists of eleven individual . folders containing UFO sighting reports made to the MOD between 5th November and . 30th November 1976. They are filed in date order and there is a list of correspondents in 'the front of the file. An · · list has revealed no reports for the · 141h November, nor any 2. 'Copies of the files containing briefing and background notes on UFOs prepared by the head of 84 (Air), with contributions from RAF Ops (GE) 2 and DI55 for reference by Lord Strabolgi in his closing address during the House of Lords debate on UFOs, 18 January 1979. The file referred to in Hansard on 17 December 1998 was D/DSS/75/3 Part A, which is a general parliamentary correspondence file covering 1978. I have recalled this file from our archives and a brief examination has revealed several papers that may have some relevance to your request. These papers were not generated by this Department so if you wish us to pursue this request we would have to make further enquiries about their release. With regard to your request for any papers that may be held by RAF Ops (GE) 2 and DI55, both branches have been consulted. The Directorate of Air Operations (successor to Ops(GE)) hold no relevant surviving files from this period. DI55 are still checking their archives, but nothing relevant has been found so far.
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