Does anyone have all the MoD UFO files released so far ?

[DeepCut]

Does anyone have all the MoD UFO files released so far ?

I can't believe they are charging upwards of £3 to download each PDF now they are at the national archives :(

Anyone know of where they can be gotten for free, all in one file preferably ?


Cheers,

DC.

[calikid]

they range in size from 2 or 3megs to 200 or 300megs.

Close to 7Gigs of files released so far.
Not really something you would download as one big file.

Was there any one file you were looking for?
Maybe I could email it, if I have it.

[DeepCut]

Thanks for the offer :)

I want to make a searchable database of them so i need to get all of them.


DC.

[Longeyes]

Hi Deepcut

God bless the Irish they have them all available on the Aerial Phenomena Research Association of Ireland website
http://docs.aprai.org/

Go to government downloads hopefully they are all there

[DeepCut]

Longeyes you are aptly-named :)

God Bless ALL the Celts ;+}


All the best,

DC.


Hi Deepcut

God bless the Irish they have them all available on the Aerial Phenomena Research Association of Ireland website
http://docs.aprai.org/

Go to government downloads hopefully they are all there

[calikid]

Hi Deepcut

God bless the Irish they have them all available on the Aerial Phenomena Research Association of Ireland website
http://docs.aprai.org/

Go to government downloads hopefully they are all there

Must sign up to to download files
I signed up.

Must make two posts before downloading files.
What the heck? What's after that? Anyone have better luck than I did on this site?

[IsaacKoi]

Must make two posts before downloading files.
What the heck? What's after that? Anyone have better luck than I did on this site?

Hi Calikid,

After you qualify to download on the useful Irish site, you will almost certainly get frustrated by the limited amount you are allowed to download each day. If you want to download all the Ministry Of Defence documents, it will take you many days to do so from that website.

I have all the documents, but due to copyright issues I'd be concerned about uploading all of them.

Various people (particularly outside the UK) clearly don't feel the same constraints since most of the documents appear on several other websites including at:
http://www.theblackvault.com/m/articles/view/United-Kingdom-UFO-Documents
http://www.noufors.com/ufo_related_documentation_in_pdf_format.html

[calikid]

Hi Calikid,

After you qualify to download on the useful Irish site, you will almost certainly get frustrated by the limited amount you are allowed to download each day. If you want to download all the Ministry Of Defence documents, it will take you many days to do so from that website.

I have all the documents, but due to copyright issues I'd be concerned about uploading all of them.

Various people (particularly outside the UK) clearly don't feel the same constraints since most of the documents appear on several other websites including at:
http://www.theblackvault.com/m/articles/view/United-Kingdom-UFO-Documents
http://www.noufors.com/ufo_related_documentation_in_pdf_format.html

Thanks for the suggestion.
I have d/l a few from TheBlackVault in the past, not sure if John Greenewald, Jr has kept the list current over the years as, by my count, the files release so far are nearing 7gigs!

[DeepCut]

I just stumbled on the Black Vault collection, much easier to download as they are all linked on one page so you can use a batch downloader.

He doesn't have the 2012 releases, perhaps this is when they started charging.

All the best,

DC.

[zooky]

Ah great been looking to get hold of them for a while now, had a hard drive go bad on me and lost the lot..

[calikid]

I just stumbled on the Black Vault collection, much easier to download as they are all linked on one page so you can use a batch downloader.

He doesn't have the 2012 releases, perhaps this is when they started charging.

All the best,

DC.

FYI, when the MOD releases UFO files, they are FREE for the first 30 days.
After that, they charge for copies.
Pay attention to release dates, save $$$

[DeepCut]

Thanks cali, didn't realise that was the process, cheers for the heads up :)


DC.

[calikid]

Interesting article by Nick Pope re: the MOD Files. I did not realize the next batch was going to be the last.
July 2012 was the last release, I can't find a date for the next one, but maybe July 2013?
Remember to get them early, FREE the first 30days, $$$ thereafter.

MoD UFO Files

As the five-year program to declassify and release the entire archive of UK Ministry of Defense UFO files reaches its climax, it seems appropriate that I use my first column for UFO Digest to give an overview of what has unquestionably been one of the biggest UFO-related stories of recent years.

There were a number of reasons why the MoD decided to release these files. The main one was that once the UK’s Freedom of Information Act came fully into force, the MoD found that it was receiving more FOI requests on UFOs than on any other subject. Releasing the files en masse and sending them to the UK National Archives meant the MoD could avoid responding to the hundreds of people making these FOI requests on a case-by-case basis, which was becoming an administrative nightmare. Other reasons for the release included the fact that the French Government had released their UFO files in 2007 (creating a precedent the UK would have found difficult not to follow) and MoD’s hope that releasing these files would be a good demonstration of their commitment to open government and freedom of information.

The first files were released in May 2008 and subsequent batches followed every few months. With the release of the final batch of files in 2013, the program has entailed the publication of around 60,000 pages of documentation – much of it unclassified, but some which had been Secret UK Eyes Only. Story Continues (http://www.ufodigest.com/article/mod-ufo-files0401)