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MP Martin Redmond's series of Commons questions on UFOs

Name: MP Martin Redmond's series of Commons questions on UFOs
Start: 1996
Location: London, England

When: 1996
Where: London, England
Sources: 3 public sources

Through 1996, MP Martin Redmond put a run of written questions to ministers on UFOs and the 1980 Rendlesham Forest case. Answers recorded in Hansard said the MoD looked at reports only for defence significance and that John Major's government had no plans to fund research.

Sources

OfficialUnidentified Objects (Rendlesham Forest), written answers, 7 May 1996 (opens in a new tab)UK Parliament (Hansard) / 1996-05-07
OfficialUnidentified Flying Objects, written answers, 8 July 1996 (opens in a new tab)UK Parliament (Hansard) / 1996-07-08
OfficialUnidentified Flying Objects, written answers to the Prime Minister, 17 October 1996 (opens in a new tab)UK Parliament (Hansard) / 1996-10-17

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