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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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--; 1315 Writ/ell [The Earl of Clancarty.J :;_,·-·· ···~·. ·-c...... ''"~"-' d·">-L.. . •..•....• -..,., 4 ··;,_~.• ,.,~ ·• • ~~ ~ ~ A11swer.s 1316 ~ l 13 _.. - _..- riveted attention. I beg leave to with- l . Lord 'I) [LORDS] have talked about the umpteen light years that some of these planets and stars arc away from us. But we are looking at it from our own standpoint, because we started to fly only in 1903, when the Wril!hl brothers took oir. Now we have got Concorde, so we consider our- sc·lves to be rather good. Hut we say that we cannot go right out into space because of ail this di\tance in light years. Let us suppose, however, as . h.as been I suggested,. that there are b!lhons of 1 planets with civilisations thousands of 1 vears old. Is it not possible that they could come here, after all that rime, almost instantaneously? It is just a thought. draw the Motion for Papers. ; am advis~ Motion for Papers, by leave, withdrawn. A propos of that, l should like to bring to the attention of your Lordships a famous scicutist and astronomer, our own Sir Fred Hoyle. Some years ago he wrote a book called Of ;\Ietz and Galacies. He wrote a passage in that book which I was allowed to quote in one of mine. It read: •· You are ail familiar with an ordinary telephone directory. [f you wallt to speak to someone, you look up his numJ:'c! an,~ you dial the appropriate code. My sp~..:wat10n - this is Sir Fred Hoyle speaking- .. is that a similar situaticn exists and has existed for billions of)ears in the galaxy. My speculativn is that an interchange of messages is going on on a va~t sc:tle all the time and that we arc as unaware of it a~ a pygmy in :he Airkan fore,ts is t..fajesty's Government: . Whether they will publish the com- ments whi::h the Jio:ne Oflke has so far received on the Green Paper British Nationality Law: Discussio11 of Possible Changes (Cmnd. 6795) which appeared in April 1977 and 'Vhich invited com- ments from the public and from interested bodies •· as part of the process of open government ·•. The l\UNISTER of STATE, HOME OFFICE (Lord Boston of Faversham): So far nearly 250 persons or organisutions have sent in comments on the Green Paper. Understandably there is a •rood deal of rep.:::tirion and Her Maj:Sty's Government do not intend to publish all of this material verbatim. It is open to any of the authors of papers to publish them and some ha vc done so at least in substance. Her Majl.!sty's Government will have in mind the possibility of publishing in due cour~e a summary of all comments received. DISABLED PERSONS; EMPLOYMENT QUOTA DEFICJENCY Lord VAIZEY asked Her Majesty's Government: What is the number and percentage of 1irms failing to employ their quota of disabled persons for each year since 1960. Commissic is as follo, Year 1960 1961 *1962 *1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 ... 1974 .. 1975 ... 1976 ... 1977 1978 *In 1961 respect c staff but < than 500 a quota '
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