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MOD file DEFE 24/2032/1

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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.

  • p. 13 …Some people were worried at the significance of flying saucers and wondered why, in the light…
  • p. 43 …Jf\ve assume that extra-terrestrial intelligences who travel to earth are more advanced than we…
  • p. 44 …I very much doubt the possibility of its being on this earth. So we get an…
  • p. 47 …In a light year a ray of light tt~avels 6 trillion miles, but we do…
  • p. 51 …therefore, that UFOs are manned by sentient beings who travel at the Sf)eed of light…
  • p. 53 …Identifiable objects of the second kind are meteorites and phenomena such as the Northern Lights. I…
  • p. 54 …And Heaven, my Lords, has always offered us more pos,ibilities than earth. Although I remain…
  • p. 63 …be able to spend perhaps ten or hundreds I of light years getting here and who…
  • p. 187 …J from a hole in the earth, or the depths of the sea, as Lord Clancarty…
  • p. 209 …the technical difficul·::ies of inter-stellar travel are stunning.~ven at the speed of light…
  • p. 292 …Stopping their patrol car they watched as the lights drew nearer to them. The lights or…
  • p. 360 …Stopping their patrol car they watched as the lights drew nearer to them. The lights or…

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