British Military 'Suppressed UFO Information'

Yahoo / Reuters ^ | 12/3/2002 | Pete Harrison

[ex-Texan]

British Military 'Suppressed UFO Information'

By Pete Harrison

LONDON (Reuters) - The British government tried to cover up one of the country's most famous sightings of an unidentified flying object, a parliamentary watchdog ruled Tuesday.

The "Rendlesham Files," which were finally published on the Internet Sunday, contain eyewitness accounts by U.S. Air Force officers at a military base close to Rendlesham Forest, near Ipswich in eastern England, who saw a brilliantly lit object land in the forest in December 1980.

The incident is widely regarded as one of the most significant-ever UFO sightings -- the British equivalent of the 1947 incident in which a spacecraft supposedly crashed at Roswell, New Mexico, with aliens aboard.

Several people had complained to the British parliamentary ombudsman, Ann Abraham, that the Ministry of Defense had refused to divulge full details of the Rendlesham witness accounts.

Abraham ruled the ministry had "withheld three documents relating to reported sightings of unexplained aerial phenomena in 1980 -- the Rendlesham Forest UFO incident."

A ministry spokeswoman however said the files had not been deliberately withheld and had always been available to anyone who asked.

In late December 1980, U.S. officers investigating what they thought must be a crashed plane in the forest saw a triangular "strange glowing object" that sent farm animals into a frenzy.

"The object was described as being metallic in appearance and triangular in shape, approximately two to three meters across the base and approximately two meters high," reads a report in the file by Deputy Base Commander Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt.

"It illuminated the entire forest with a white light," he added. "The object itself had a pulsing red light on top and a bank of blue lights underneath. The object was hovering, or on legs."

Skeptics say the witnesses were merely seeing the beam from a lighthouse on the nearby coast.

But the report adds that the next day three depressions seven feet in diameter were found in the grass and that readings of beta and gamma radiation were ten times higher than normal. Disturbances were also noted on airforce radar at the time.

Later in the night, a second UFO was seen, described as a red sun-like light. "At one point it appeared to throw off glowing particles and then broke into five separate white objects," said the file.

A Ministry of Defense (MoD) memo in the file notes that: "No evidence was found of any threat to the defense of the United Kingdom. In the absence of any hard evidence, the MoD remains open minded."

Until last week, only around 20 members of the public had seen the file. The government said it would also be publishing other files on reported UFO sightings on www.mod.uk.

The Rendlesham File contains an MoD memo suggesting British requests for audio tapes made by the American officers at the time were brushed aside by the U.S. Later reports by UFO enthusiasts claimed that photographs and tapes were taken away by senior U.S. officers.

[ex-Texan]

Breaking News 12/3/2002

I am not wearing tin foil. This is coming from the UK government, so, I guess, they are wearing it.

[Delbert]

Read with a very polite english accent ---> Excuse me please, I'm terribly sorry to bother you, but an alien has just given me the most uncomfortable anal probe. Cheers

[Cicero]

They must have been VLGMs (Very Little Green Men) if they were flying a spacecraft that small. No other explanation. :-)

[maestro]

LOL,......NOT German-British designed 'airships' again?

The Germans and Brit's..... ARE.... Aliens!

:-)

LOL.....again!

[KellyAdmirer]

"The object was described as being metallic in appearance and triangular in shape, approximately two to three meters across the base and approximately two meters high,"

Say, anyone have a good picture of Uncle Martin's space cruiser from the tv "My Favorite Martian"? This sounds exactly like it!

[Vidalia]

And who here thinks it's funny...?

[canuck_conservative]

Someone should suppress Joan Rivers - Rosie O'Donnell was right, she does look like an alien!

[ex-Texan]

The object was described as being metallic in appearance and triangular in shape, approximately two to three meters across the base and approximately two meters high," reads a report in the file by Deputy Base Commander Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt. ***** "It illuminated the entire forest with a white light," he added. "The object itself had a pulsing red light on top and a bank of blue lights underneath. The object was hovering, or on legs."

It had to have been a deer wearing a headlight, standing in the forrest, with a bank of blue light strapped to the underside of his belly. Those Brits are terrible tricksters, you know, they are just terrible.

"Gee, i dunno, it might have been a-a-a-aliens ...."

</ tin foil>

[js1138]

This may be slightly off topic, but Spielberg developed many of his "Close Encounters" special effects while he was a teenager. I think about this when evaluating UFO pictures. A lot of what we believe depends on who we believe.

[Mr. C]

LOL - I see they managed to complete the farce by including that accusation by UFO enthusiasts that the US was involved as the conspirators in a massive global cover-up of the incident by seizing all the outstanding "evidence". I suppose these US "Officers" took all the relevant data and are storing it at Roswell, NM(or maybe Area 51?, )right next to the freeze dried aliens.

[DTA]

A flying model of this triangular object, perhaps ?

[maestro]

Right!

My grandson has one of those toy 'radio-remote' control helicopters.

You can put 'Frogs' in it!

LOL

[zx2dragon]

UK Opens Its Own 'X-File'

[ex-Texan]

Don't you know all of the control surfaces and engineering of this flying wing were back-engineered from the 1947 wreckage discovered at Ross-well? It is true, I know it, because I heard it on Art Bell.

</ tin foil>

[ex-Texan]

The truth is out there.

[headsonpikes]

Al Gore disembarked from that craft in the English woods, I've heard.

[guitfiddlist]

A Ministry of Defense (MoD) memo in the file notes that: "No evidence was found of any threat to the defense of the United Kingdom. In the absence of any hard evidence, the MoD remains open minded."

I love their parse-speak. No evidence was found of any threat to Disneyland either. Case closed.

[cmsgop]

Read the Document.........http://www.thesmokinggun.com/doc_o_day/rendlesham1.html

[archy]

"The object was described as being metallic in appearance and triangular in shape, approximately two to three meters across the base and approximately two meters high,"

Say, anyone have a good picture of Uncle Martin's space cruiser from the tv "My favorite Martian"? This sounds exactly like it!

This it?

-archy-/-

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[archy]

a flying model of this triangular object, perhaps?

Or maybe this earlier one: