Rendlesham Forest/Bentwaters AFB
In 1980, just after Christmas, Brenda Butler a local paranormal investigator,
was contacted by an American friend who was a security police officer at the twin
bases of Bentwaters and Woodbridge, Norfolk, England (a base owned by the USAF).
The friend claimed that in the early hours of December 26th, he and two other
guards had been sent into the nearby forest of Rendlesham (this forest separates
Bentwaters from Woodbridge). There had been reports of a big light crashing down
from the sky into the woods. When the men arrived they found a disc-shaped
craft on tripod legs resting on the ground. They radioed back to the base for backup
and over the next couple of hours senior personnel came out to the site.
The friend also reported that several small aliens, about 3ft tall with grey skin and
large heads were seen 'suspended' around the craft as if making repairs. He also
claimed that one of the senior officers tried to communicate with the aliens with
sign language.
This seemed yet another unsubstantiated case until an almost exact story was told
to another researcher. However at first most UFO researchers were dubious about this case.
However, Jenny Randles together with Dot Street and Brenda Butler started collating
eye-witness evidence and testimony. They put all these together in a book called
Sky Crash which was a bit of a jumbled mess. However, the book seemed to open the
floodgates with new witnesses and evidence coming to light.
One of these witnesses, a forestry worker, found the alleged crash site a day after
the events. He reported the damage to the trees and the marking on the ground to
the local authorities. However when he returned the next day the entire site had be
felled and dug up!.
Another witness, Gordon Levitt, observed the object as it flew silently over his
house. He described it as an 'upturned mushroom glowing phosphorescent'. His dog, whose
barking alerted him to the object, became ill the next day a died shortly afterwards.
The researchers eventually with the help of some American UFO researchers managed
to obtain a secret memo through the FOIA. The memo written by Lieutenant-Colonel
Charles Halt, was sent to the British Ministry of Defence (the MOD had told Jenny Randles
that no such memo existed!!).
The Halt memo discussed three separate events. The landing of a small craft on the
first night. The discovery of ground traces with excess radiation readings, and another
sighting the following night which Halt himself witnessed.
The Halt memo talks of a second document, however, this has not been released to
UFO researchers because it is a threat to 'National Security'!.
A radar operator, from a nearby tracking station, then came forward and told
researchers that 2 days after the incident USAF personnel came to the tracking station
a removed all radar recordings for the past 2 nights. These were never seen again.
All this new info, along with a tape recording made by Halt on the night of the
encounter which describes his attempts to try an identify the object, were put
together by Jenny Randles in her excellent book 'From Out of the Blue'.
The best explanation that any of the sceptics have managed so far is that the
over 30 military personnel including senior officers were all sent out into the forest
to observe the lights of the nearby lighthouse !!.
This case is probably the best case excluding Roswell, which indicate a crash/landing
of some description.
Investigations are still continuing.
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