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DRAFT
PE0-FORI'.A
I am writing to thank your for your re'-;ort of an unidentified
tlying object seen on ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
We are grateful to you
for advisine the Department of this
incident and your report will be examined in the ~~nistry
of Defence to
see if there are any air defence implications. I recret that we are
unable to extend our investigations beyond our defence interest. We
can..."lo·t therefore undertake to pursue our research to a point where positive
correlation with a known object is established, no~
of the )robable identi-ty of the object seen.
to adVise you
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You will no doubt wish to know, however, that thegr-eat majority of
UFO reports turn out to have mundane explanations, the most common
single source being aircraft or the lights of aircraft seen under
unusual meteorological conditions. Investigations over a number of yea:.
so far
havejproduced no evidence that UFOs represent an air defence threat to
the united Kingdom.