Clive Lewis Challenges MOD Answers on Five Eyes UAP Cooperation
British MP Clive Lewis publicly said that Ministry of Defence answers about UAP cooperation within the Five Eyes had definitely misled him. He pointed to documented international coordination that, in his view, was difficult to reconcile with the parliamentary responses.
Background
Labour MP Clive Lewis challenged the British Ministry of Defence's responses to his parliamentary questions about international cooperation on unidentified anomalous phenomena. During a conversation with Peter Skafish, Lewis said that the answers had definitely misled him.
His criticism focused on the statement that the ministry had not participated in international groupings specifically concerned with UAP since May 2023. Previously released correspondence nevertheless documents British involvement in preparations for a Five Eyes briefing with the U.S. UAP Task Force in 2021 and in subsequent coordination.
The available material does not conclusively establish continued British participation after May 2023. It does, however, expose a public dispute over how the parliamentary answers relate to the documented history of Five Eyes coordination.
Significance
The statement increases political pressure on the British government to clarify the scope and duration of its UAP cooperation with the Five Eyes. It also documents continuing parliamentary scrutiny of the issue in the United Kingdom.