{
  "slug": "uk-national-archives",
  "register": {
    "slug": "uk-national-archives",
    "name": "The National Archives",
    "local_name": null,
    "abbr": "TNA",
    "jurisdiction": "foreign",
    "state": null,
    "state_name": null,
    "country": "United Kingdom",
    "country_code": "GB",
    "category": "general_government",
    "agency_type": "archive",
    "parent": null,
    "parent_name": null,
    "url": "https://aletheca.com/agencies/uk-national-archives",
    "website": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk",
    "reading_room": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/ufos/",
    "subject_to_foia": true,
    "law": {
      "id": "uk-foia-2000",
      "citation": "2000 c. 36",
      "statutory_days": 20,
      "business_days": true,
      "appeal_deadline_days": null
    },
    "intake": [
      {
        "channel": "portal",
        "detail": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/freedom-of-information/",
        "label": "TNA Freedom of Information",
        "verified": true,
        "verification": "verified",
        "verification_source": null,
        "last_checked": null,
        "automatable": false,
        "preferred": false,
        "reliability": null,
        "instructions": null
      },
      {
        "channel": "portal",
        "detail": "https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk",
        "label": "Discovery catalogue (closed-record FOI challenges)",
        "verified": false,
        "verification": "unverified",
        "verification_source": null,
        "last_checked": null,
        "automatable": false,
        "preferred": false,
        "reliability": null,
        "instructions": null
      },
      {
        "channel": "mail",
        "detail": "The National Archives, Kew, Richmond TW9 4DU",
        "label": "Postal mail",
        "verified": true,
        "verification": "verified",
        "verification_source": null,
        "last_checked": null,
        "automatable": false,
        "preferred": false,
        "reliability": null,
        "instructions": null
      }
    ],
    "submission_readiness": null,
    "holdings": [
      "The released MoD UFO files — DEFE 24, DEFE 31, AIR 2, AIR 20 and FCO series, 1950–2009",
      "Project Condign report (DEFE 31/171–172)",
      "UFO policy files released 2008–2013 in tranches"
    ],
    "tips": [
      "Search Discovery for series DEFE, AIR, FCO and BJ before filing — most UFO files are already open and many are digitised.",
      "A closed record can be challenged with an FOI request made directly from its Discovery catalogue page.",
      "The MoD destroyed early sighting files at five-year intervals until 1967 — absence before then is documented, not suspicious."
    ],
    "tracking": "FOI request number issued by the FOI Centre.",
    "confidence": "high",
    "source": "Hand-compiled international layer. Bodies and statutes are real; contact routes are inferred unless marked verified, and none has yet been proven by a delivered letter."
  },
  "scorecard": null,
  "components": [],
  "requests": []
}