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This MoD file, titled UFOs - Persistent Correspondence - Dr David Clarke, holds Dr David Clarke's Freedom of Information requests and emails to the Directorate of Air Staff from 2005 to 2008. Clarke asked for the DI55 report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region and for Rendlesham papers. He also sought records about Nick Pope. Other items include an internal review that released redacted passages on plasmas, the MoD's statement that it had no report of the 2008 South Wales police helicopter sighting, and a 2009 disposal form.
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Dr Clarke's outstanding requests and questions FOI request letter dated 26 September 2005 1. A copy of the Executive Summary, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) - DI55 Report, referred to in DIST letter, D/DIST/11/10 dated 4 December 2000. Do you hold the Executive Summary? Is this a large document? Is it classified? Whether this is released may depend on whether you are willing to release Volumes 1-3 of the report. 2. A copy of Volumes 1, 2 and 3 of the UAP Report referenced in the above letter. Have you looked at these to see if they can be released? Have you any initial thoughts on release? 3. A copy of the terms of reference for the UAP Report, referenced in DI55/108/15/22 January 1997 as follows: D/DI55/108/15 dated 11 December 1996 and D/DI55/108/15 dated 16 November 1993. Do you hold these documents? If so, have you looked at them to see if they can be released? 4. With reference to request (2) please could you provide an advance summary of the title and table of contents of the three individual volumes. This will enable me to narrow my request should it exceed the £600 limit allowed under the FOIA. note from your e-mail of 29 September that you do have the contents pages and could provide this in advance as Dr Clarke requested. However, I think these should not be released until you know whether you are going to release the three volumes of the Report. It would not be wise to tell him what is in the volumes if there is a chance the information will be withheld. If you choose to withhold only certain sections, reference to these should also be removed from the contents pages (something which would be impossible if he had these in advance). 5. Please could you provide a list of all data fields possible for a UAP entry in the project database? Section 40 Again this may depend on whether the report, volumes etc are going to be released.
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