Ministry of Defence and UFOs

Summary

This document comes from the UK Ministry of Defence and deals with the handling of information requests related to UFOs and crop circles. In 2007, a citizen requested information about a supposed file on crop circles, which the Ministry denied having opened. The document includes an internal discussion between officials, where one mentions that there might have been a dedicated file on crop circles, but no evidence was found. It also references a letter from Nick Pope, former head of the Ministry's "UFO Desk," who claimed to have opened a file on crop circles, but the Ministry did not confirm this. The document illustrates how the Ministry handles information requests under the Freedom of Information Act and how it protects the privacy of communications with citizens. Ultimately, it concludes that there was no official file on crop circles and the case is closed without further action.