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BENTWATERS SOLDIER SAW INSIDE SUPER-SECRET VAULT                       01/01/96
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Base Was Site of Famous UFO Events in 1980

by Michael Lindemann

The military base known as RAF Bentwaters in England is associated with one
of the most impressive yet controversial UFO cases of all time. Almost no one
disputes that something strange occurred near the base during late December
of 1980, but what it was remains shrouded in mystery. Odd moving lights were
reported in the sky and in the Rendlesham Forest that separates Bentwaters
from its nearby sister base (now closed) called RAF Woodbridge. Soldiers were
dispatched into the woods, led by Lt. Colonel Charles Halt, USAF. (Though on
British soil, both bases were manned by American forces).

On January 13, 1981, Halt sent a classified memo regarding the events to the
British Ministry of Defence. That memo, released to U.S. UFO researcher
Robert Todd in June of 1983 through the Freedom of Information Act, says that
several witnesses reported a triangular, metallic, highly luminous object
either hovering or standing on legs, and then maneuvering through the forest,
on the night of December 27. Though not a witness to this object himself,
Halt said that the next morning he did witness three depressions in the
ground, arranged in a triangular pattern, that apparently marked where the
object had stood. Halt further stated that on the following night he and
others witnessed an astounding display of moving lights in the sky.

Halt's memo left little doubt that whatever happened was out of the ordinary,
but continuing efforts by independent researchers have not resolved the
Bentwaters mystery, and current opinions vary widely. Some now believe the
strange events were all staged as part of a very elaborate psychological
warfare test, possibly involving mind-control techniques. Others say craft of
unknown origin were seen at close range, and that extensive photo and
physical evidence was gathered at the site -- all of which was then locked
away in government vaults. Still others say not only craft but "aliens" were
seen and contacted. Finally, there are the hard-line skeptics who say nothing
at all remarkable happened, except that airmen who should know better mistook
the light of a nearby lighthouse in the fog for something otherworldly.

Now CNI News has learned of a U.S. soldier who was stationed at Bentwaters
some years after the famous 1980 events, but who saw several things that lend
strong credence to the strange claims associated with the base. This soldier
prefers that his name not be used in this story, but he has communicated
under his own name with CNI News editor Michael Lindemann.

Concerning his military background, the soldier says: "I entered the service
in 1983 and was assigned to RAF Bentwaters in 1984.  I was involved in
nuclear weapons and because of our extensive background investigations,
members of our section were often called upon to do other high-security
details.  Since even the Security Police didn't have as high a clearence, a
lot of these details were simply being our own guards -- hence my access to
the vault (see below).  I volunteered for as many of these details as I could
because it was supposed to create an impressive military record. However,
when I arrived at my next base (I left Bentwaters late in '86) no records of
my special duties followed me.  I called my immediate supervisor when I
discovered this and he said, 'What happens at Bentwaters stays at
Bentwaters.'  I think this had more to do with security than UFOs.  I was an
enlisted man and I was an E-4 Sgt when I entered the vault. I left the
service in 1988.  I was still angry that none of my record followed me.  I
simply didn't re-enlist and had an honorable discharge.  I was still an E-4."

Here is the soldier's account of his extraordinary experience in "the vault"
at Bentwaters, where apparently something very interesting and very secret is
hidden.

"On RAF Bentwaters there is a secured area around the flightline.  This is
normal and many people have access, but not all.  Inside this area is another
secured area containing the munitions dump.  Again, this is normal; fewer
people have access to this.  On this particular base there is another weapons
storage area that only a few people can get in.  You are searched and must
travel around in pairs inside this area.  It is heavily guarded.  The bunkers
in this area require an elaborate key and password sequence to get in.  One
particular bunker is different.

"Inside this bunker is a vault with two combinations and two locks. Because
of regulations, no one person can have access to more than one [combination
or lock]. Hence, if you can get a key you won't get the combo, or vice-versa.
 It takes four people to open the door -- plus the security team verifying
passwords, etc.  This is the most secure area I have ever seen in the Air
Force.

"I was picked to be a key holder, which meant that I was armed, and told to
escort the individual who needed [access to] the vault, along with the three
others needed to open the door.  I don't know who the individual was; he was
American and a civilian.  We opened the door and I at first couldn't believe
it.  It contained a roughly-made shelf made out of two-by-fours holding two
old wooden crates.  The individual opened one of the crates, which was only
sealed with a lead seal, and inside was a green styrofoam container in two
halves.  He opened it up and inside was a rod about a quarter inch in
diameter and bent about three times along its length.  It looked solid and if
it were straight it would be about a foot long.  It was dull but corrosion
free from what I could tell.  The man looked at it for about a minute, then
put it away and resealed the box with a new lead seal.

"For his minute we spent about four hours preparing to open the vault.  It is
that secure.

"That was when I started asking questions about why a small rod would require
so much security.  The underlings such as me hadn't a clue, but when I
started asking others I was told not to worry about it.  One officer that I
knew personally once said under his breath that it was 'proof,' but when I
pressed him he denied saying it.  The only other response I got, from people
who obviously didn't know, [was] that it probably had something to do with
all the UFOs that supposedly visit the base."

This soldier has no doubt that he saw something very extraordinary in that
vault, but he was highly skeptical of a UFO connection until he had his own
amazing sighting at Bentwaters some time later. Here is his account.

"I was working nights and for once the sky above the base was clear.  I took
an astronomy class in college and was testing my knowledge of the
constellations when I saw what looked like an equilateral triangle.  Of all
the constellations, none I could think of formed a triangle with such bright
stars.  I had been looking and thinking for about five or ten minutes when,
right when I was looking directly at them, the stars turned a full circle,
each ending up where they started, and then shot out at 90 degree angles from
the direction they were moving, and within a second were gone over the
horizon, each going a different direction.  Because they were just points of
light I figured they were far away and that would make their speed something
incredible.  I was so shook up I took the rest of the night off and for weeks
had this nightmare that all the stars in the sky were spinning, and thus the
end of the universe was near.  That may sound strange, but it was that
disturbing."

It is interesting to compare this soldier's sighting with Colonel Halt's
eyewitness description of events on December 28, 1980. Halt wrote in his
memo: "Three star-like objects were noticed in the sky, two objects to the
north and one to the south, all of which were about 10 degrees off the
horizon. The objects moved rapidly in sharp angular movements and displayed
red, green and blue lights. The objects to the north appeared to be
elliptical through an 8-12 power lens. They then turned to full circles. The
objects to the north remained in the sky for an hour or more. The object to
the south was visible for two or three hours and beamed down a stream of
light from time to time."


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