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Release of extra Rendlesham files

MoD agree to release to Dr Clarke three documents originally with-held from the Rendlesham file in July 2002, following the outcome of an appeal to the Parliamentary Ombudsman.

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UFO policy

MoD response to list of supplementary questions on UFO policy.

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Destruction of records

Note on MoD record destruction policy 2001: MoD branches continued to destroy files on UFOs despite Minister’s commitment to preserve records from 1967.

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UFO questions

Supplementary questions on UFO policy submitted to MoD by Dr Clarke in August 2001.

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Unidentified helicopter

Metropolitan Police Special Branch report on ‘unidentified helicopter’ sightings in Derbyshire and Cheshire, during 1973-74.

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MoD policy on UFOs

MoD’s detailed response to 13 questions on UFO policy (Annex A).

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Freddie Wimbledon

Retired RAF fighter controller Freddie Wimbledon’s account of his role the Lakenheath incident, published by the RAF Radar Museum newsletter. Mr Wimbledon was stationed at RAF Neatishead, Norfolk, in 1956.

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RAF Lakenheath

Discussion of the RAF Lakenheath-Bentwaters UFO incident of August 1956; there are no surviving records of this incident in UK intelligence files.

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UFO report

Copy of the DSI/JTIC report ‘Unidentified Flying Objects’, completed in June 1951 for MoD, released to Dr David Clarke in 2001 following a request under the Code of Practice for Access to Government Information.

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Rendlesham file

MoD release a copy of the Rendlesham File to Dr David Clarke on 11 May 2001.

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News of the World

MoD note on New of the World’s story ‘UFO Lands in Suffolk’ (October 1983); an official notes the story appears to be ‘one fabrication after another.’

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Discovery of UFO report

Note from MoD records staff recording discovery of a surviving copy of the DSI/JTIC report on UFOs, produced by the MoD’s ‘Flying Saucer Working Party’ in 1951.

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UFO questions

List of 13 questions on MoD UFO policy submitted by Dr David Clarke in March 2001.

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Man Alive

Copy of MoD file: ‘UFOs: Man Alive programme’ (1971-72), TNA reference AIR 2/19119.

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Man Alive

Pre-transmission briefing by the Head of S4(Air), Anthony Davis DFC DSO, on his appearance in a pre-recorded public debate on UFOs at Banbury town hall, shown as part of BBC 2’s Man Alive series, in February 1972.

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MoD file on BBC programme

Copy of MoD file: ‘UFOs: BBC Radio Oxford programme’ (1972-73), TNA reference AIR 2/19117.

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UFO policy

Discussion of future MoD UFO policy following closure of USAF Project Blue Book in 1969-70.

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MoD file on UFO Reports

Copy of MoD file ‘Statistical Analysis of UFO Reports’ (1967-1973), TNA reference AIR 2/19126).

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MoD policy on UFOs 1967

Briefing note on MoD UFO policy, 1967: investigation of UFO reports.

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UFO Ministerial briefing

Head of S4(Air)’s briefing to Ministers on reasons for increase in number of UFO reports during 1967.

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USAF studies

Note on USAF studies including Project Blue Book

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Note on USSR studies

Note on USSR studies of UFO phenomena.