§ The Earl of CLANCARTYasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they are aware that in an interview on France-Inter radio on 21st February 1974 Monsieur Robert Galley, then French Minister of Defence, stated that his Ministry had set up a section in 1954 to study eyewitness accounts of unidentified flying objects; and whether our Ministry of Defence also has a section to investigate these unidentified flying objects.
§ Lord WINTERBOTTOMThe Government have no record of a statement made in February 1974 by the then French Minister of Defence.
Our Ministry of Defence has no specific organisation engaged on the examination of reports of unidentified flying objects; reports are examined by specialist staffs as part of their normal duties to see if they contain any implications for the defence of the United Kingdom, investigations into any scientific significance of phenomena 1454WA which go beyond defence interests are not carried out by the Department.