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Project Condign (DEFE 24/2090)
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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.
“DI55”38 pages
- p. 22 …for the release of the MoD file 'DI55/108/15', part 4. Your request has been…
- p. 24 # SUMMARY OF CONTENTS OF FILE DI55/108/15 - Part 4 'UFO Policy'
The file covers the…
- p. 26 …should no longer be a requirement for DI55 to monitor UFO reports as they do not…
- p. 27 …the DI 55 Policy file D/D/DI55/108.15 Pt 4, which covers the period…
- p. 40 …report...please direct such comment to AD/DI55". All accessible files for the period in question…
- p. 42 …The documents referred to are in fact D/DI55/162/40 dated 11th December 1996 and…
- p. 44 …40 XXXXXXXXX
Our reference D/DI55/162/40
Date 11 December 1996
## s.40 Dear xxxxxxxx…
- p. 46 …AD/DI55
UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL PHENOMENA (UAP) - DI55 REPORT
1. The DIS has received copies of UAP…
- p. 56 …April and for the copy of the DI55 report "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air…
- p. 57 …It would appear that correspondence received may be filed with DIS, possibly in DI/DI55/108…
- p. 58 …April and for the copy of the DI55 report "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air…
- p. 59 …It would appear that correspondence received may be filed with DIS, possibly in DI/DI55/108…
- p. 63 …April and for the copy of the DI55 report "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air…
- p. 64 …It would appear that correspondence received may be filed with DIS, possibly in DI/DI55/108…
- p. 66 …The titles of significant branches such as DI55 and Sec(AS)2a have not been removed…
- p. 68 …UK air space from Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. DI55 regularly received copies of UAP sighting reports and…
- p. 69 …It was then decided that DI55 would cease to receive UAP sighting reports. Since December 2000…
- p. 75 …UK air space from Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. DI55 regularly received copies of UAP sighting reports and…
- p. 76 …It was then decided that DI55 would cease to receive UAP sighting reports. Since December 2000…
- p. 95 …Could we clear up the ambiguity surrounding the status of the 21 DI55 UFO files (see…
- p. 100 …DI 55 DI/DI55/108/15/1 Pt 21 1979
DEFE 31/164 UFO Reports: DI…
- p. 110 …Could we clear up the ambiguity surrounding the status of the 21 DI55 UFO files (see…
- p. 111 …DI55 UFO files
DI/DI55/108/15/1Pt9 UFO Incident Reports period not known
DI/DI55…
- p. 128 …You also requested a copy of DI55/108/15/22 dated January 1997, D/DI55/108…
- p. 129 …You also asked if the DI55 Policy file D/DI55/105/15 Pt 4 contained any…
- p. 133 …You also requested a copy of DI55/108/15/22 dated January 1997, D/DI55/108…
- p. 134 …You also asked if the DI55 Policy file D/DI55/105/15 Pt 4 contained any…
- p. 135 …there was no longer a requirement for DI55 to monitor UAP reports as they do not…
- p. 141 …Q3
DI55/108/15/22 January 1997 Got and can be declassified
D/DI55/108/15…
- p. 143 …D/DI55/108/15 dated 11 December 1996 and D/DI55/108/15 dated 16 November…
- p. 144 …that states "Recently we have been informed by DI55 that they no longer wish to see
- p. 145 …File D/DI55/108/15 Pt 4 - I wish to modify my request to encompass a…
- p. 151 …Red
## Section 40
This is quite a big job, but here is some data,
- File DI55…
- p. 152 …wishes to request from the DI55 Policy File, D/DI55/108/15 Part 4. You will…
- p. 154 …D/DI55/108/15 dated 11 December 1996 and D/DI55/108/15 dated 16 November…
- p. 156 …D/DI55/108/15 dated 11 December 1996 and D/DI55/108/15 dated 16 November…
- p. 158 …the decision in October 2000 to bring DI55 interest in reports of "aerial phenomena" to an…
- p. 159 …Firstly, with reference to my request for a copy of the DI55 Policy file, D/DI55…
4. A question I feel the Press will certainly ask (see Attachment B) is how much in the way of public funds were spent on the production of this report. If precise figures have not been kept (as the report was part of a larger contract) is it possible to estimate how has been spent, based upon similar projects undertaken by MoD?
It is not possible to provide details of the cost of producing the report. The author was initially employed as a contractor and commenced work on the report in December 1996. However, producing the report was only one of several tasks in which he was engaged and it is not possible to determine how much of his time was divided between producing the report and his other tasks. In addition, the author only spent 50-60% of his working week on these tasks (this time was split between working in London and working at his company's offices). The remaining percentage of his time was spent working on his company's business. The author left his company on early retirement in Section 40 following which he was employed as a consultant for the DIS until completion of the report in March 2000.
5. Who has had sight of this report in terms of senior officials and/or ministers at the Ministry of Defence?
The report was not passed to any MoD Ministers. The report was distributed to only three senior officials within the MoD and Royal Air Force at Director level or above.
6. Further to my email dated 23 February, I should have mentioned one Additional question for DIS relating to the UAP report. I noted that in the three page paper dated 22 January 1997 produced by the author of the report (which you released in August last year), he refers to the UAP project as "Project Condign."
Could DIS confirm that "Condign" was the word used to describe the project during the period 1997-2000. If so, is there any significance in the choice of the word? The similarity to "Condon" (the name of the USAF study, completed in 1969) is striking and I wondered if that was why this name was chosen.
It is confirmed that 'Condign' was the word used to describe the report. The word 'Condign' was randomly generated and any similarity with the word 'Condon' is purely coincidental.
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