I want to see the mod files for ufo sightings.

Dear Mr McKeand,

                             Thank you for
your Freedom of Information request of 10 September asking to see the
Ministry of Defence UFO files for the entire country.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has over 160 UFO files and the cost of
preparing these for release to you would far exceed the £600 limit set
for compliance with the Freedom of Information Act. This represents the
estimated cost of one person spending 3 and a half working days in
determining whether the Department holds the information, and locating,
retrieving and extracting the information. Under the terms of Section 12
of the FOI Act, this means that we are not obliged to comply with this
element of your request at this time

However, details of UFO sightings reported to the MoD for the period
1997-2008 are available for viewing on the MoD website [1]www.mod.uk by
searching under "UFO Reports".

You might also be interested to know that the MOD has already released a
great deal of information about UFOs which is available for public
viewing. MOD files were routinely destroyed after being held for five
years until 1967, when they were generally preserved for The National
Archives. A few have survived before 1967 and these together with records
up to 1995 are now available for public viewing. They can be contacted at
Ruskin Avenue, Richmond, Kew, Surrey TW9 4DU or telephone, 020 8876 3444.
The National Archives also have a website giving information about the
records they hold and how to access them. This can be found on the
internet at [2]www.nationalarchives.gov.uk.

Additionally, we are part way through a three year programme to release
UFO files from the Directorate of Air Staff and the Defence Intelligence
Staff covering the period from the late 1970's to 2007.

I hope this is helpful.

If you are not satisfied with this response or you wish to complain about
any aspect of the handling of your request, then you should contact me in
the first instance. If informal resolution is not possible and you are
still dissatisfied then you may apply for an independent internal review
by contacting the Head of Corporate Information, 6th Floor, MOD Main
Building, Whitehall, SW1A 2HB (e-mail [3][email address]). Please note
that any request for an internal review must be made within 40 working
days of the date on which the attempt to reach informal resolution has
come to an end.

If you remain dissatisfied following an internal review, you may take your
complaint to the Information Commissioner under the provisions of Section
50 of the Freedom of Information Act. Please note that the Information
Commissioner will not investigate your case until the MOD internal review
process has been completed. Further details of the role and powers of the
Information Commissioner can be found on the Commissioner's website,
[4]http://www.ico.gov.uk.

Paul Webb

RAF Bus Sec 13

Room 2E03

Spitfire Block

HQ Air Command

RAF High Wycombe

HP14 4UE

Tel: 01494 49 6254

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