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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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## Section 40 Directorate of Air Staff-FOI Ministry of Defence 5th Floor, Zone H Main Building Whitehall London SW1A 2HB 27 July 2006 ## FOI Request-UAP Report ## Dear Section 40 Thank you for your letters of 16 June in response a) to my Freedom of Information Act request dated 22 May 2006 and b) my follow-up questions relating to the UAP report. This letter includes some further questions plus a fresh FOI request. 2 My questions relate to issues arising from the completion and circulation of the UAP report in the year 2000 which I feel remain a little ambiguous. Firstly, I am puzzled by the seeming lack of reaction or interest from the various MoD branches copied in on sections of the report, under the cover letter 4 December 2000. Given the fact that the author spent three years producing a detailed report in an attempt to resolve a problem which had persisted since the '50s, I would have expected at least some brief comment on the findings and recommendations from the addressees who received a copy. Is it the case that none of the branches listed expressed any interest or views in respect of the findings? Secondly, I note in your letter dated 16 June that you say the report's findings were sent to DAO/UKADGE who would have been responsible for passing on the specific recommendations concerning "Potential UAP Hazards to Aircraft" (Vol 3, Chapter 2 of the report) to the CAA (and presumably the RAF). Given that fact, do DAO hold any record in their files of action taken in response to these recommendations or views expressed with respect to the report's findings? Thirdly, I note that the Key Recommendation of the UAP report was that "it should no longer be a requirement for DI55 to monitor UFO reports as they do not...provide information useful to Defence Intelligence." Given that finding, I draw your attention to your response to my request of 22 May for "a list of files or records held by DIS which have the acronym 'UAP' in the title." In your letter of 16 June you list four DI 55 files,
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