1 - The Black Vault

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Your Reference
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Date
2"r October 2001
Thank you for your two letters dated 10 October 2001, which were sent to this office. We
are the focal point within the Ministry of Defence for correspondence relating to 'unidentified
flying objects'.
As requested, please find enclosed a number of papers on the Rendlesham F ores! incident
that have recently been released under the Code ofPractice on Access of Government Information.
Some have been sanitised to protect the privacy of those who have corresponded with the Ministry
of Defence. Three documents have been withheld under Exemption 2 of the Code which relates
to "internal opinion advice, recommendation, consultation and deliberation".
If you are unhappy with the decision to withhold documentation and wish to appeal against
this decision, you should write in the first instance to Ministry of Defence, D Info Exp, Room 819-
B, St. Giles Court, 1-13 St. Giles High Street, London, WC2H 8LD, requesting that the decision be
reviewed. If following the internal review you remain dissatisfied, you can ask a Member of
Parliament to take up the case with the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration (the
Ombudsman) who can investigate on your behalf The Ombudsman will not, however, consider an
investigation until the internal review process has been completed.