Ministry of Defence UFO files: release of 17 August 2009 (14 files)

The 14 Ministry of Defence UFO files opened at The National Archives on 17 August 2009. Each is a digital copy of an MoD registered file, with the names of members of the public and witnesses redacted. Our copies come from public mirrors of the release (The Black Vault, archive.org) and are OCR'd for search; page numbers are those of the PDFs.

• DEFE 24/1948: UFO reports of sighting: Rendlesham Forest, December 1980 — 1992 January 01-2002 december 31
• DEFE 24/1959: UFO reports — 1993 January 01-1993 December 31
• DEFE 24/1960: UFO reports — 1994 January 01-1994 December 31
• DEFE 24/1961: UFO reports — 1995 January 01-1995 August 31
• DEFE 24/1962: UFO correspondence — 1992 November 01-1993 April 30
• DEFE 24/1963: UFO correspondence — 1993 April 01-1993 August 31
• DEFE 24/1964: UFO correspondence — 1993 August 01-1993 November 30
• DEFE 24/1965: UFO correspondence — 1993 November 01-1993 December 31
• DEFE 24/1970: UFO Parliamentary Questions and correspondence — 1995 January 01-1995 January 31
• DEFE 24/1972: alleged UFO incident: crash of Lightning F6, 8 September 1970 — 1992 October 01-1994 March 31 (filed separately, with its own entry)
• DEFE 24/1974: UFO reports — 1995 September 01-1996 January 31
• DEFE 24/1975: UFO reports — 1995 January 01-1995 June 30
• DEFE 24/1976: UFO reports — 1996 June 1 - 1996 Aug 31
• DEFE 24/2086: UFO reports sightings, 30/31 March 1993 — 1993 March 01-1993 June 30 (filed separately, with its own entry)

Search the full text of these files on the MoD UFO files search page.

Sources: The National Archives' catalogue (descriptions, covering dates and opening date of each file)