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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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1283 Unidentified [LORDS] Flying Objects 1284
[Lord Kings Norton.J { far with little enough results except to
spoken this evening except the noble wonder why the bounds of natural physics
Lord, Lord Trefgarne. 1 remain sceptical jseem to be broken on aU sides. Most
of the more bizarre extra-terrestrial ex- Wc~te:·n Govcrr,n~ents say th::t UFO:; do
planations. I remain more tban sceptical, not exist, but r. think th:.;t the French Iindeed, incredulous, of what the noble Minister of Defence, ~L Robert Gdley, in
Earl in his .Motion called "landings "; February, 1974, said that they do; that his
but I support him wholeheartedly in l1is Government tak(:;s thoa sericusly and rh2t
wish for a serious inquiry. I l:ope that they have been studied secretly by a spcci;;J
the Government will tr.ke steps to put deparrment for ever 20 years. Indeed
such an inquiry in hand. Fin;>.Ily, I France leads the world in UFO rc-scr;rch:
ccme back to the matter of tc~minology. It has followed 1.:p sightings with rclice
In his Motion, the noble Earl called for teQms, scientists and scholars and, since
"an intra-governmental study". The 1950, the Deuxii!lne Bureau of the Army.
noble Lord, Lord Trdgarnc, and, I think,
the noble Lcrd, Lord Gladwyn, took
this to be an inter-governmental study.
But " intra " means " within ". I was
puzzled by nv~ use of the prefix, but that
is what it means and presucers tkt literally filled the s:.;:y
above them. Ev~ry important Am~rican
newspaper told the :;tory. With few
excertions, the 1• ;~~·;, cun~~-s c '.:.""~·~,,o "',e "'- ~('' ce,n~kmd that 1 ~hou!d hke to see li!"OU'C:ht mto tu~~· \,JL a' \ ... st L: v\):-.dgv of ~-lCLCc
bema under 1 M.:my men have seen taese Sights arrd have,e r;o '" l ' . .... legafficd
Lord RANKEILLOUR: My Lords, as?. fable, but now cur le:~ding naturalist
first, I must t1umk the ncb!e Earl, Lord says that it (or they, possibly) probably
Clanceeks ago a Palermo
UFO sag" is deep and complex and there policeman photogrn;)hed one, and four
ore no kn::Hvn C.':perts to keep us t!p to date IItalian N.wy oii1cers &bc• rer
to be misinfot
below par in
why has some
subject be•.;n
Ministry of l
this Ministry
false !nrc~-rnat
fal$e informat
dvil nnd Air
sailors and
public who !~
perience wlu<
frightened thei
My Lord~, '
know; and l
Gove~1~n~cnts:
i;l one form 01
and they cb
which seer<~
physics. Let
toJ..! by Her
reai detaih on
them, for by co::
only becon1e.s
ago a UFO \\
the Hi!:!hland:;,
Forcst~wcre bu
safe to go on i:
Who is to knc
But co:ne they
that UFOs ex
how they ope:
would be of hu:
industrial iife,
without wings
dead-slow to
hover silently.
is above pri.::t:
country shodl~
every SGrap c,t
I therefore ~"~
the study of U
up a bureau th:
and sundry '•1
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