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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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D/DAS/63/3/11
26 April 2006
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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT - RELEASE OF DIS REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL PHENOMENA (UAP) IN THE UK AIR DEFENCE REGION
## ISSUE
1. The release of a DIS-commissioned study into Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region in response to a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).
## RECOMMENDATION
2. Minister to note the release of a document that is likely to attract media and public attention.
## TIMING
3. Urgent. The report is to be released into the public domain on 28 April 2006 and will be revealed in the MOD Freedom of Information Publication Scheme on $ 1 5^{th} $ May 2006.
## BACKGROUND
4. Since the introduction of the FOIA on 1 January 2005, the Directorate of Air Staff, as the lead branch, has received a large number of requests for information on reported 'UFO' sightings in UK air space. Several documents have been released in response to these requests, one of which referred to a DIS study entitled 'Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region'. DAS have now received requests from two members of the public (one of which is an academic researcher) requesting copies of this study report.
5. The study was commissioned by DIST to ascertain whether there was any evidence of a threat to UK air space from Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. DI55 regularly received copies of UAP sighting reports and had formed the view that none of them presented any threat to UK airspace. Neither had any of the reports indicated any potential new technologies which may have been of defence interest. DI55 therefore were of the view that they had no need to receive these reports, but in order to establish whether UFO reports had any value to Defence Intelligence and whether there was a requirement for Defence Intelligence Staff to see them in the future, they decided to Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 160 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.