Posted on 12/12/2003 5:37:54 PM PST by 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.
Definitely worth a watch.
RE: the lighthouse mentioned above: LOL! I don't think people who lived in close proximity to a lighthouse (civilian and military) for years would suddenly forget the lighthouse was there, or how it appeared to them. You can't pass off the Rendelsham events on a mistaken lighthouse.
Here is what they found.
LOL? So it's easier for you to believe that little green aliens from another planet landed in England in 1980 instead believing that some sleepy, tired, and confused airmen away from home at Christmas-time got confused over seeing flashing lights through the trees in a dark forest? Now, that is "LOL"-worthy.
How do you explain that the tape syncs up precisely with the rotation of the lighthouse beacon? How do you explain that the color of the light being seen was the same as the lighthouse? That it was seen in the same direction as both the lighthose and the lightship? That it "moved behind the trees" when they moved, but stopped when they stopped? Did you ever look at the moon behind some trees while in a moving car?
They never said that. The exact quote was "the object was close to the farmer's house."
How do you explain the fact that the men described the light moving back and forth? The plethora of different colors they observed? The fact that the witnesses described the light/craft coming towards them? The eyewitness accounts of a physical craft on the ground? The sudden liftoff and takeoff of the object?
I enjoy visiting lighthouses on both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, and have been near them in all sorts of weather (fog, chills, snow, night, strms, etc.). I have never mistaken a lighthouse beam for a completely inexplicable aircraft.
It doesn't add up to a lighthouse.
These new facts are - for instance - how one of the primary witnesses described seeing the lighthouse at the same time as the UFO and thus was certain the UFO was not the lighthouse. Which is fine, except that, on closer questionning, the position he cites for the lighthouse is wrong. It is actually where a smaller lightship was then located. The UFO he relates was thus pretty much where the real lighthouse was positioned.
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