Tag Archives: Freedom of Information Act

The UFO Files: Our Man in Sheffield

Posted on July 2, 2017 by Dr David Clarke

I spent two decades on the trail of the UK Ministry of Defence’s cache of secret UFO papers. But little did I know that my FOI campaign triggered off a mole-hunt among the spooks – and a probe to discover … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Condign report, Defence Intelligence Staff, DI55, FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, Graham Greene, Ministry of Defence, The National Archives, UAPs, UFO files, UFOs, unidentified aerial phenomena, University of Sheffield | 4 Comments

On the trail of the phantom copter

Posted on January 21, 2015 by Dr David Clarke

The Daily Mirror has published the results of my Freedom of Information research on the phantom helicopter mystery that plagued British police forty years ago. The full story was published in Britain’s X-traordinary Files and a summary can be found … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Britain's X-traordinary Files, Daily Mirror, Dr David Clarke, Fifth Column, Freedom of Information Act, Harrier jump jet, IRA, James Bond, Mail Online, MI5, Ministry of Defence, Peak District, phantom helicopters, Scotland Yard, Special Branch, Superintendent George Oldfield | 2 Comments

Jet in ‘airmiss’ with UFO near Heathrow

Posted on January 5, 2014 by Dr David Clarke

News of the latest in a series of cases where aircrew have seen unidentified objects on collision course with passenger jets has emerged in The Sunday Telegraph. In 2011 I published the result of Freedom of Information Act request that … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged A320 airbus, Civil Aviation Authority, Freedom of Information Act, Glasgow airport, Heathrow airport, Jasper Copping, National Air Traffic Control Services, Sunday Telegraph, UFOs, UK Airprox Board (UKAB), unidentified flying objects | 4 Comments

UFO files – saved!

Posted on November 9, 2013 by Dr David Clarke

After six decades of official indifference UFO records have been finally recognised by Britain’s Ministry of Defence as being ‘historically significant’. MoD’s ‘Guidance for Record Reviewers’, lists files on ‘unidentified flying objects‘ alongside those concerning nuclear testing, Special Forces and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged archives, Brussels, Freedom of Information Act, gun camera film, ICA, International Council on Archives, Julian Hennsessy, Merlyn Rees MP, Ministry of Defence, Public Record Acts, Sir Robert Grigg, The Foreign Office, The Guardian, The National Archives, UFO desk, UFO files | Leave a comment

U-2 secret history revealed

Posted on August 17, 2013 by Dr David Clarke

News that the CIA has finally ‘officially acknowledged‘ the existence of Area 51 as the base where the U2 spyplane was developed will come as no big surprise to aviation historians. Some of the more far-gone UFOlogists prefer to believe … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Air Ministry, Anthony Eden, Area 51, Chris Pocock, CIA, Defence Intelligence Staff, Freedom of Information Act, George Washinton University, Groom Lake, Hugh Caillard, James Cunningham, Lakenheath-Bentwaters UFO incident, Lionel 'Buster' Crabb, Lockheed, Lt Milton Torres, MI6, MoD UFO files, National Security Archive, Nikita Krushchev, Project Blue Book, RAF, RAF Lakenheath, Third World War 1956, U2 spyplane, UFOs | Leave a comment

The End of the UFO Files

Posted on June 20, 2013 by Dr David Clarke

The tenth and final collection of British UFO files have been released by The National Archives. From 2008 more than four million visitors from 160 countries have visited the project website to download files that would normally have been hidden … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1st Royal Irish Regiment, Britain's X-Files, British UFO Files, Chinese lanterns, credible witnesses, Dr David Clarke, Ecotricity, Freedom of Information Act, Gordon Brown, identified flying objects, iPad, iPhone, Lincolnshire, Ministry of Defence, Shropshire, Shropshire UFOs, The National Archives, The Sun, UFO desk, UFO files, UFO Files App, UFOs, unidentified flying objects, wind turbine UFO | 9 Comments

You Can’t Tell the People?: Margaret Thatcher and UFO secrets

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Dr David Clarke

The death of ‘Iron Lady’ Margaret Thatcher has deprived UFOlogists of an answer to an enduring question: what did she really know about Britain’s Roswell incident? Thatcher, who died on 8 April aged 87, was 19 months into her first … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Britain's Roswell, Eric Morris, Freedom of Information Act, Georgina Bruni, Greenham Common, Margaret Thatcher, Ministry of Defence, no defence significance, nuclear weapons, RAF Bentwaters-Woodbridge, Rendlesham forest incident, Rendlesham forest UFOs, UFOs, Winston Churchill, You Can't Tell the People | 26 Comments

The UFO Files Rebooted

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Dr David Clarke

The second edition of The UFO files was published by Bloomsbury on 13 September 2012. You can order the book from Amazon here or via the publisher’s website here. The National Archives press release on the book can be found … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bloomsbury, Captain Eric Brown, crop circles, Freedom of Information Act, Ministry of Defence, Rendlesham, Saucer Sam, Ted Conrad, The National Archives, the real X-files, UFO files, Winston Churchill | Leave a comment

Air Traffic Control, UFOs and the FOIA

Posted on August 19, 2012 by Dr David Clarke

Each month Air Traffic controllers receive reports of flying objects ‘that don’t conform to normal flight patterns’ the head of Britain’s National Air Traffic Control Services admitted on BBC Radio 4. Towards the end of a general interview on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged BBC Radio 4, British UFO Research Association, BUFORA, CAA, CAA Safety Regulation Group, Channel Islands UFO, Civil Aviation Authority, Freedom of Information Act, Gatwick airport, Ian Ridpath, Manchester airport, Mandatory Occurence Reports, Manual of Air Traffic Services, Ministry of Defence, National Air Traffic Services, NATS, nearmiss, RAF Lyneham, Ray Bowyer, Richard Deakin, Simon Jacks, Today programme, UFOs, UK Airprox Board (UKAB), unidentified flying objects | 2 Comments

Seeing Sprites

Posted on August 17, 2012 by Dr David Clarke

Six years ago I used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain the release of a secret Ministry of Defence report on ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomena’ (UAP). The study, codenamed ‘Project Condign‘, concluded that UAPs – as the MoD’s Defence Intelligence … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged atmospheric plasmas, ball lightning, Defence Intelligence Staff, Freedom of Information Act, International Space Station, mesosphere, Ministry of Defence, NASA, National Archives of Australia, Operation Close Encounter, phys.org, Project Condign, RAAF, radar angels, RAF Bentwaters/Lakenheath UFOs, Royal Australian Air Force, running rabbits, Science Daily, sprites, Sunday Times, Sydney airport, UAPs, unidentified aerial phenomena, Washington DC UFOs | 2 Comments

Tag Archives: Freedom of Information Act

The UFO Files: Our Man in Sheffield

On the trail of the phantom copter

Jet in ‘airmiss’ with UFO near Heathrow

UFO files – saved!

U-2 secret history revealed

The End of the UFO Files

You Can’t Tell the People?: Margaret Thatcher and UFO secrets

The UFO Files Rebooted

Air Traffic Control, UFOs and the FOIA

Seeing Sprites

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