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RENDLESHAM FOREST INCIDENT

The Plot Thickens

	Georgina Bruni - author of "You Can't Tell The People" An "in depth" examination of the Rendlesham Forest incident.
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Regarded by some as the U.K. Roswell, the incident at Rendlesham Forest which involved members of the U.S. Air Force at a base in Suffolk is still the cause of much interest and controversy. Despite the fact that the Deputy Commanding Officer of the base - Lt. Col. Charles Halt insists that there was an event there that involved a UFO and the fact that he actually made tape recordings as the event took place , the U.S.A.F. and the M.O.D. denied the episode for several years.
Lt.Colonel Charles Halt - Deputy Base Commander. Colonel Halt recorded on audio tape much of the second night's happenings

In 1983 an American research group obtained a memorandum (composed by Col. Halt) through the U.S. Freedom of Information Act . This memo describes how UFOs penetrated the area around a NATO base which deployed nuclear weapons. Despite many questions being asked in the House of Lords by Lord Hill Norton (Admiral of the Fleet and former Chief of Defense Staff) and more evidence such as high radiation readings at the scene etc..... the M.O.D. has continually denied that anything of interest happened. For the past twenty years researchers have persisted in their investigations and recently Georgina Bruni has produced a book called "You cant tell the People". The title coming from a conversation the author had with former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher when she told the author that she must get her facts right concerning UFOs but she couldn't tell the people. Despite the apparent lack of interest shown by the M.O.D. etc it is interesting to note that in reply to questions posed by Lord Hill Norton , Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean informed that the M.O.D. had alerted the American 3rd Air Force Headquarters at R.A.F. Mildenhall of the book. Surely if the M.O.D. find it necessary to alert the Americans there can be little doubt that the incident is of defense significance.

A witnesses sketch of the craft Click on photo for larger size

	Rendlesham Forest - dense undergrowth

The Rendlesham Forest Incident What Happened?
In 1980 two air bases owned by the RAF, namely RAF/U.S.A.F Bentwaters and RAF/U.S.A.F Woodbridge were leased to the U.S. Air Force and reputedly held the largest stockpile of tactical nuclear weapons in non-communist Europe. Woodbridge was also the home of the 67th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron - a unit that reported directly to the U.S. Department of Defense in Washington. At approximately 2-00a.m. on the 27th December 1980,an unidentified object was picked up by radar at RAF Watton in Norfolk (UK). The object went off the screen in the area of Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk. RAF/U.S.A.F Bentwaters also tracked the unidentified object - Bentwaters being in the direct vicinity of Rendlesham Forest. At approximately 3-00a.m. two U.S.A.F security guards observed unusual lights outside the back gate of RAF Woodbridge and three patrolmen were sent to investigate. These three men reported seeing a strange , glowing object seemingly of metallic appearance and of a triangular shape. They reported it being approximately two to three meters across the base and two meters tall, giving off a bright white light which illuminated the entire forest. Also it had a pulsing red light on top and a bank of blue lights underneath - it was hovering but apparently had legs. When the men approached the object it maneuvered through the forest and out of view, to be briefly seen again an hour or so later near the back gate.

Staff Seargent Jim Penistone later reported: " The air was filled with electricity .You could feel it on your skin as we approached the object. On the upper left side of the craft was an inscription. It measured six inches high, of symbols. They looked familiar, but I couldn't ascertain why". Examination of the area the next day revealed that the object had left three depressions on the ground and a radiation check showed readings ten times that normally expected - especially where the object had landed. Later that night a bright pulsing red light was seen maneuvering in the forest, eventually breaking into five white objects which disappeared. Several objects were then seen in the sky , moving rapidly and showing red, green and blue lights - some of the objects were visible for an hour or more.

Lt. Charles Colonel Halt ,Deputy Base Commander at Woodbridge, had insisted that the first night's events be entered in the security police log but the second night's event tore him away from his dinner. Armed with a tape recorder, Lt. Colonel Halt and a number of other servicemen witnessed the events as they unfolded - a detailed tape recording being made. A full report dated 13th January 1981 was sent to the British Ministry of Defense by Lt. Colonel Halt. The M.O.D.'s ultimate response was : "The department satisfied itself at the time that there was no reason to consider that the alleged sighting had any defense significance."
Colonel Halt's report to the M.O.D. Click on photo for larger size

Various theories have been put forward to explain the Rendlesham Forest events including the idea that the lights were caused by a lighthouse on the coast - this theory is unfounded when the geography and topography of the area is examined. Another convoluted theory put forward by a skeptic (Channel 4 Television 10th April 2002), endeavoring to link the events to a craft (of some description) being carried by helicopters in the U.S. at about the same time, only illustrates the depths that "so-called educated skeptics" will sink to in order to enforce their opinions. One fact is certain - whatever happened it was witnessed by military personnel and it was later revealed that civilians living in the area also were witnesses , at least to some extent. One of the military witnesses , Larry Warren (then 19), gave a number of differing accounts but as the military witnesses were pressurized by the military police it is understandable that things would, in some respects, be "hazy". Warren has since revealed his story but only after what he claims was a classic government hush-up. Indeed it was later reported that the base commander, Colonel Gordon Williams , communicated directly with the occupants of the unidentified craft.

Admiral Lord Hill-Norton , former chief of the British Defense Staff stated:" I have no doubt that something landed at this U.S. Air Force base and I have no doubt that it has got the people concerned in to a considerable state. The Ministry of Defense has doggedly stuck to it's normal line, that nothing of defense interest took place. Either large numbers of people , including the commanding general at Bentwaters,were hallucinating, and for an American Air Force nuclear base , this is extremely dangerous - or what they say did happen. In either of these circumstances, there can be only one answer - that it was of extreme defense interest to the U.K.".
Admiral Lord Hill-Norton - a high ranking military figure who has persistently sought the truth about the events at Rendlesham Forest.

Quotes “UFOs are real machines under intelligent control” Major Donald Keyhoe (January 1958 on CBS TV – transmission was cut mid-statement)