Additionally, how could it be the lighthouse when the incident began because someone saw flashing, colored lights that indicated that perhaps something had crashed in the woods? IN THE WOODS, seen from OUTSIDE THE WOODS.
Are you claiming that some never-before-seen and never-again-seen weather phenomena was at work on TWO CONSECUTIVE NIGHTS to make the lighthouse appear to be an aircraft of impossible capabilities to dozens of observers from different angles?
Who's really grasping at straws and trying to fit square pegs in round holes now?
The initial sighting was by the gate guards looking eastward directly through the woods towards the lighthouse.
When they went towards the lights, the lights "receded". When they moved crosswise through the forest, the light moved with them (as the light from a distant lighthouse would do).
The most important evidence (the tape recording) shows their sightings match up precisely with the rotation of the lighthouse beam. Whenever the lighthouse beams sweeps over them, they shout "there it is again!"
The direction they claim to have seen stuff is precisely in line with both the Orfordness Lighthouse and the Shipwash Lightship.
They are embellishing their stories whenever someone pokes a hole in it.
And so forth.