Document · 21 June 2013
Ministry of Defence UFO files: release of 21 June 2013 (25 files)
Also known as MoD UFO files June 2013, UK UFO files June 2013
The 25 Ministry of Defence UFO files opened at The National Archives on 21 June 2013. 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 24/2448: UFOs: Freedom of Information (FOI) requests — 2008 Jan 02 - 2008 Jul 09
- DEFE 24/2449: UFOs: Freedom of Information (FOI) requests — 2008 Jul 10 - 2008 Oct 20
- DEFE 24/2450: UFOs: Freedom of Information (FOI) requests — 2008 Oct 22 - 2008 Dec 15
- DEFE 24/2451: UFOs: correspondence — 2009 Jan 01 - 2009 Jul 20
- DEFE 24/2452: UFOs: correspondence — 2009 Aug 06 - 2009 Nov 25
- DEFE 24/2453: UFOs: Ministerial correspondence — 2009 Jan 01 - 2009 Feb 18
- DEFE 24/2454: UFOs: Freedom of Information (FOI) requests — 2009 Jan 01 - 2009 Aug 07
- DEFE 24/2455: UFOs: Freedom of Information (FOI) requests — 2009 May 08 - 2009 Aug 19
- DEFE 24/2456: UFOs: Freedom of Information (FOI) requests — 2009 Aug 27 - 2009 Dec 11
- DEFE 24/2457: UFOs: Ministerial correspondence — 2009 Jan 01 - 2009 Oct 29
- DEFE 24/2458: UFOs: Ministry of Defence policy on sightings — 2009 Jan 01 - 2010 Jan 19
- DEFE 24/2459: UFOs: reports — 2009 Jan 01 - 2009 Mar 04
- DEFE 24/2460: UFOs: reports — 2009 Mar 05 - 2009 May 11
- DEFE 24/2461: UFOs: reports — 2009 May 14 - 2009 Jul 02
- DEFE 24/2462: UFOs: reports 2009 — 2009 Jul 03 - 2009 Aug 14
- DEFE 24/2463: UFOs: reports 2009 — 2009 Aug 17 - 2009 Sep 16
- DEFE 24/2464: UFOs: reports — 2009 Sep 21 - 2009 Oct 27
- DEFE 24/2465: UFO reports — 2009 Oct 27 - 2009 Dec 01
- DEFE 24/2623: UFO reports — 2007 Dec 06 - 2008 May 12
- DEFE 24/2624: UFO reports — 2008 Jul 25 - 2008 Sep 11
- DEFE 24/2625: UFO reports — 2008 May 12 - 2008 Jul 24
- DEFE 24/2626: UFO reports — 2008 Sep 12 - 2008 Nov 27
- DEFE 24/2627: UFO reports — 2008 Dec 02 - 2009 Jan 12
- DEFE 24/2628: UFO correspondence — 2007 Dec 19 - 2008 Dec 23
- DEFE 24/2629: UFO Parliamentary questions and correspondence — 2008 Jul 28 - 2008 Sep 14
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)
Connected files
Organizations
- The National Archives (UK) (released in) — Opened at The National Archives on 21 June 2013
- Ministry of Defence (UK) (prepared by)
Documents
Incidents
- Police helicopter near-collision with unidentified lights over Birmingham (Airprox 055/08) (about) — DEFE 24/2450, pp. 41–45: the Airprox report
- Radar “blob” and guards' sighting at RAF Lyneham (about) — DEFE 24/2454, pp. 155–160
- Soldiers' video of lights over Tern Hill barracks, Shropshire (about) — DEFE 24/2625, pp. 107–112
- Rendlesham Forest incident (about) — DEFE 24/2628, p. 144: “we consider the incident closed”
Mentioned in this file
- National Archives and Records Administration (Organization)
- Ministry of Defence lists of UFO reports received, 1997–2009 (Document)
More documents
- Ministry of Defence UFO files: release of 11 August 2011 (34 files)
- Ministry of Defence UFO files: release of 17 August 2009 (14 files)
- The National Archives (UK): UFO files release, highlights guide (August 2009)
- Ministry of Defence UFO files: release of 20 October 2008 (19 files)
- Ministry of Defence UFO files: release of 12 July 2012 (25 files)
- Ministry of Defence UFO files: release of 3 March 2011 (35 files)
Links
Files
- defe-24-2448-1.pdf
- defe-24-2449-1.pdf
- defe-24-2450-1.pdf
- defe-24-2451-1.pdf
- defe-24-2452-1.pdf
- defe-24-2453-1.pdf
- defe-24-2454-1.pdf
- defe-24-2455-1.pdf
- defe-24-2456-1.pdf
- defe-24-2457-1.pdf
- defe-24-2458-1.pdf
- defe-24-2459-1.pdf
- defe-24-2460-1.pdf
- defe-24-2461-1.pdf
- defe-24-2462-1.pdf
- defe-24-2463-1.pdf
- defe-24-2464-1.pdf
- defe-24-2465-1.pdf
- defe-24-2623-1.pdf
- defe-24-2624-1.pdf
- defe-24-2625-1.pdf
- defe-24-2626-1.pdf
- defe-24-2627-1.pdf
- defe-24-2628-1.pdf
- defe-24-2629-1.pdf