UFO Invasion at Rendlesham on the SCI FI channel (Live Thread)

www.scifi.com ^ | Friday, December 12, 2003 | Bryant Gumbel

[Momaw Nadon]

About the Rendlesham Incident

In late December 1980, in Rendlesham Forest, England, numerous U.S. military personnel witnessed what has come to be regarded as the most significant military-UFO incident in the history of Great Britain.

The servicemen were posted to the RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge facilities — which together constitute one of the largest NATO bases in rural Suffolk, East Anglia — when, on December 27, they noticed unusual lights and activity near the base's back gate. A trio of security patrolmen led by Jim Penniston, thinking a military aircraft might be down or in distress, ventured into Rendlesham Forest to investigate. There they observed a variety of unearthly phenomena that none of them could explain, as well as an airborne object obscured by its own blinding light.

The next day, December 28, they returned to the forest and found three radioactive depressions in the ground where the object had been sighted. That night, other witnesses in surrounding areas saw an intense red light pulsating and moving through the trees.

Soon afterward, several of the men involved, including Airman Larry Warren, were debriefed by U.S. and British officers and ordered to sign documents contradicting their firsthand accounts. Furthermore, they were told to remain silent and were warned by U.S. military intelligence personnel that, if they didn't, "Bullets are cheap."

Two weeks after these incidents, Lt. Colonel Charles Halt (who retired years later following his promotion to colonel) wrote a memo detailing everything that the patrolmen had seen and sent the document to his superiors at the Pentagon — and the most comprehensive cover-up in the history of Britain began.

But the truth has refused to remain hidden. In December 2002, the British Ministry of Defense released a file on the Rendlesham incident that comprised 180 pages of previously classified memos, letters, reports and correspondence. But despite the British government's admission that a UFO-related incident took place near the Bentwaters and Woodbridge airfields in 1980, the U.S. government still refuses to release its own files about the encounter.

Now SCI FI brings you this shocking exposé, complete with documentation, new physical evidence and firsthand accounts by both military and civilian witnesses — including Penniston and Halt, who have jeopardized their reputations and military pensions in order to seek out the truth. Join host Bryant Gumbel as SCI FI presents its exclusive investigation of one of the most important UFO incidents of the 20th century.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

We moved to Farmington in 1954 during the oil and gas boom.
I lived at Ledbetter's old court on main st. then the house behind the Hotel on main(Later called HOT PANTS).
Went into the 3rd grade at the main school in town(too many kids! Class was only 1/2 days.) Then we lived on RUINS ROAD in Aztec.
4th grade I was in La Sal Utah, then Krtland, then Governordor, back to Kirtland then Aztec again. Aztec had the worst school lunches I have EVER eaten.
5th grade 1956, I lived on the San Juan river near the bridge and went to what we all called the McCormick school.
Then my dad got a wild hair and decided to move to the Ozarks. And my life went to Hell among these inbred *****!
I am 57 years old.

We didn't have much money when we first moved there so for Saturday night entertainment my dad would load us in the car, go down and park across from a bar on the south side of town and watch the Indians get arrested.

[Ff--150]

Around the time of this article air traffic controllers in Belgium, Holland, and other countries in that region were reporting all kinds of anomalies on their screens like craft moving at sudden right angles, with jets scrambled as this was the Cold War era.

Long, long before Roswell really was known a man offered to paint my house numbers on the curbs of my driveway. As I wrote the check he commented he was from New Mexico, Roswell. To which I responded about the UFO crash.

He was humble and looked down often but when I mentioned the crash he shot a look up into my eyes and croaked, "You've heard about that!??"

I replied I had and said some things about the crash and he resumed looking back down, but his eyes were racing side-to-side searching for something or someone with his breathing rather noticeable.

His hand went to his mouth to cover it while turning his head now to look around my quiet neighborhood confiding, "My uncle's [farm/ranch] was only [??] miles from where that happened... ." So I asked if it was true and he just nodded once, and then mentioned the Four Corners sightings in some detail, knowing someone there. He finished and though he had more work he could have done the street, he nearly ran off from me really worried and concern.

As you brought up the Four Corners sightings I thought I would add this tidbit.

[Quix]

THANKS MUCH.

NOT AT ALL SURPRISED.

Thanks for the great detail. Easiy convincing.

[Quix]

Had you been in High School, You'd probably have known Tom Renshaw. You may have known Carol or Anita C. Carol eventually married Tom. They live in Kansas now.

I used to have repeated nightmares of that old steel bridge . . . of being forced to climb over it's girders with the roadway out and a flood raging.

McCormick is still there and operating. They are talking about closing Swinburne sp? There's a couple of high schools and a Jr College. There's a couple of huge coal power plants West of Kirtland. They hire mostly Navajos given that they are on the reservation etc. Navajos still have a huge alcoholism problem. But many are educated and hold very responsible jobs. Many seem to do well at welding.

It's probably one of the better places in terms of small town America.

Alas, I still miss Taiwan, Asia.

But I could be in far worse places.

[applemac_g4]

When did the RAF put the Harrier into service?

With what we know about Physics, it's impossible to travel faster than light. And even reaching light speed would require unimaginable amounts of energy.

So it's a pretty good bet that traditional UFO-style interstellar, let alone intergalactic, travel is impossible.

[jentimus]

Thanks for the 'other side' -- I was searching the web and could only find what sci fi is saying.

[FreedomCalls]

You're welcome. I was flipping through the channels and saw it was on again -- ugh.