Ministry of Defence UFO files: release of 5 August 2010 (18 files)

The sixth release of Ministry of Defence UFO files, opened at The National Archives on 5 August 2010: 18 files of 1995–2003, mostly the UFO desk's correspondence and Parliamentary questions, with the Rendlesham Forest papers that the Ministry had released piecemeal to applicants in 2001–2002. Each is a digital copy of an MoD registered file with the names of members of the public and witnesses redacted; ours are the Archives' own digital copies, downloaded from its catalogue, and are OCR'd for search. Page numbers are those of the PDFs.

We hold three of the 18, chosen for Rendlesham:

• DEFE 24/1983: UFO Parliamentary questions and correspondence — 1995 Sep 01 - 1996 Oct 31
• DEFE 24/1995: UFO correspondence — 1997 Jul 01 - 1997 Dec 31
• DEFE 24/2042: UFO correspondence — 1995 Oct 01 - 2003 Jul 31 (catalogued by the Archives under the title “DEFE 24/2007” in error)

Not on file: the other 15.

Source: The National Archives (UK), DEFE 24/1983, 24/1995 and 24/2042, released August 2010