Things About the Rendlesham Forest UFO Landing You May Not Know About

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Things About the Rendlesham Forest “UFO Landing” You May Not Know About
By Nick Redfern

Just about everyone has heard of the Rendlesham Forest “UFO landing” of December 1980. There are, however, some aspects of the story you may not have heard of. So, today, I thought I would share with you some of those lesser-known “things.” To understand exactly what occurred in the woods on those fateful nights, it’s important that we go back to the beginning: (a) the events themselves; and (b) a near-legendary memo on the incidents that was carefully prepared by Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt. At the time, he was the Deputy Base Commander at RAF Bentwaters. On January 13, 1981, Halt prepared the following report; it was sent to the U.K. Ministry of Defense (MoD) for scrutiny. It gives a fairly brief – but certainly detailed – account of what happened. A portion of that memo states the following: “Early in the morning of 27 Dec 80 (approximately 0300L) two USAF security police patrolmen saw unusual lights outside the back gate at RAF Woodbridge. Thinking an aircraft might have crashed or been forced down, they called for permission to go outside the gate to investigate. The on-duty flight chief responded and allowed three patrolmen to proceed on foot. The individuals reported seeing a strange glowing object in the forest. 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. It illuminated the entire forest with a white light. The object itself had a pulsing red light on top and a bank(s) of blue lights underneath. The object was hovering or on legs. As the patrolmen approached the object, it maneuvered through the trees and disappeared. At this time the animals on a nearby farm went into a frenzy. The object was briefly sighted approximately an hour later near the back gate.”

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There was, of course, much more to it all than what was just in the memo. Much of it is well-known now. It’s the lesser known aspects of the story I’m going to share with you today, though. Here we go with our first story: As Ian Ridpath notes: “At 21.07 on the evening of 1980 December 25 (i.e. a mere six hours before the supposed UFO landing in Rendlesham Forest) the Russian Cosmos 749 rocket re-entered over north-west Europe and was widely reported as a UFO.” Were fragments of something of Russian origins secretly retrieved from the forest? Or, near to it? I don’t know. But, I do think it would be worth it to have someone look into this particularly eye-opening saga of a Russian angle to Rendlesham. Moving on, there’s the matter of the events that occurred in the same time-frame, but not at the Royal Air Force bases of Woodbridge and Benwaters. Rather, this story all went down at Royal Air Force Watton, which is in Norfolk, just one county away from the woods. On October 25, 1988 Squadron Leader E.E. Webster of RAF Watton wrote me the following, after I raised questions about RAF Watton’s claimed connections to the Rendlesham Forest case: “Our log book for the period does indeed say that a UFO was reported to us by RAF Bentwaters at 0325 GMT on 28 December 1980 but that is all the information we have.” Apparently, though, it actually wasn’t “all the information we have.” Someone – or an agency – was being decidedly economic with the facts, such as those facts were. Apparently, on the very same night that staff at RAF Watton recorded the presence of a UFO (on December 28, 1980), a pair of military dog-handlers were patrolling the facility when something very strange happened. The pair was shocked and baffled to see just outside the perimeter fence a number of figures. No, they were not aliens. They were all too human: they were dressed in NBC (Nuclear, Biological and Chemical) outfits, head-to-foot. Clearly, there’s still more to be found about the Watton story.

hazmat1-570x293.png


How about the issue of prison evacuations in relation to the Rendlesham events? Nineteen-Eighty-Six was the year in which the late Graham Birdsall – who ran the popular and successful U.K.-based UFO Magazine – had a notable conversation with a man named George Wild. Back in the eighties, Wild was employed as a prison officer at a facility called Armley Prison. Built in the 19th century, and located in Leeds, England, it is a “Class C” jail, which means the prisoners are considered those who “cannot be trusted in open conditions but who are unlikely to try to escape.” George Wild quietly confided in Birdsall something highly disturbing, something that he had learned from a fellow officer: that on the night of December 27, 1980, the U.K. government’s Home Office was hastily readying local law-enforcement personnel to evacuate several prisons in Suffolk. Wild said that he knew for sure one of the prisons was HM [Her Majesty’s] Prison Highpoint North. It’s situated in the village of Stradishall, Suffolk, which is approximately forty-four miles from Woodbridge. The late Georgina Bruni learned that HM Prison Hollesley was primed for evacuation, too, when everything got crazy in the woods. Anyone up for focusing their research on the prison story? In all likelihood, there’s still a huge story here to be exposed.

rendlesham-forest-incident-570x320.jpg


Another story concerning the Rendlesham case that many may not know about: In a July 31, 1994 lecture at Leeds, England, Charles Halt (formerly Colonel Charles Halt, USAF, one of those that had witnessed the strange object in Rendlesham Forest) divulged his recollections of what had occurred fourteen-years previously. During the course of his lecture, Halt astounded the audience by revealing something that had been hitherto unknown: an unscheduled C141 transporter aircraft arrived at Woodbridge just hours after the initial encounter, and a group of “special individuals” departed from the aircraft, headed straight out of Woodbridge’s East Gate, and disappeared into the forest. Food for thought, indeed. All of the events I’ve described in this article are pretty much of a lesser-known nature. It doesn’t have to be like that, though. There are plenty of threads in this article that can allow for things to be taken further. It just requires people to realize the story of Rendlesham Forest is nowhere near over. There are plenty of Rendlesham secrets still to be investigated and exposed.


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Things About the Rendlesham Forest “UFO Landing” You May Not Know About
By Nick Redfern

Just about everyone has heard of the Rendlesham Forest “UFO landing” of December 1980. There are, however, some aspects of the story you may not have heard of. So, today, I thought I would share with you some of those lesser-known “things.” To understand exactly what occurred in the woods on those fateful nights, it’s important that we go back to the beginning: (a) the events themselves; and (b) a near-legendary memo on the incidents that was carefully prepared by Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt. At the time, he was the Deputy Base Commander at RAF Bentwaters. On January 13, 1981, Halt prepared the following report; it was sent to the U.K. Ministry of Defense (MoD) for scrutiny. It gives a fairly brief – but certainly detailed – account of what happened. A portion of that memo states the following: “Early in the morning of 27 Dec 80 (approximately 0300L) two USAF security police patrolmen saw unusual lights outside the back gate at RAF Woodbridge. Thinking an aircraft might have crashed or been forced down, they called for permission to go outside the gate to investigate. The on-duty flight chief responded and allowed three patrolmen to proceed on foot. The individuals reported seeing a strange glowing object in the forest. 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. It illuminated the entire forest with a white light. The object itself had a pulsing red light on top and a bank(s) of blue lights underneath. The object was hovering or on legs. As the patrolmen approached the object, it maneuvered through the trees and disappeared. At this time the animals on a nearby farm went into a frenzy. The object was briefly sighted approximately an hour later near the back gate.”

Rendlesham-cover-Large-570x419.jpg


There was, of course, much more to it all than what was just in the memo. Much of it is well-known now. It’s the lesser known aspects of the story I’m going to share with you today, though. Here we go with our first story: As Ian Ridpath notes: “At 21.07 on the evening of 1980 December 25 (i.e. a mere six hours before the supposed UFO landing in Rendlesham Forest) the Russian Cosmos 749 rocket re-entered over north-west Europe and was widely reported as a UFO.” Were fragments of something of Russian origins secretly retrieved from the forest? Or, near to it? I don’t know. But, I do think it would be worth it to have someone look into this particularly eye-opening saga of a Russian angle to Rendlesham. Moving on, there’s the matter of the events that occurred in the same time-frame, but not at the Royal Air Force bases of Woodbridge and Benwaters. Rather, this story all went down at Royal Air Force Watton, which is in Norfolk, just one county away from the woods. On October 25, 1988 Squadron Leader E.E. Webster of RAF Watton wrote me the following, after I raised questions about RAF Watton’s claimed connections to the Rendlesham Forest case: “Our log book for the period does indeed say that a UFO was reported to us by RAF Bentwaters at 0325 GMT on 28 December 1980 but that is all the information we have.” Apparently, though, it actually wasn’t “all the information we have.” Someone – or an agency – was being decidedly economic with the facts, such as those facts were. Apparently, on the very same night that staff at RAF Watton recorded the presence of a UFO (on December 28, 1980), a pair of military dog-handlers were patrolling the facility when something very strange happened. The pair was shocked and baffled to see just outside the perimeter fence a number of figures. No, they were not aliens. They were all too human: they were dressed in NBC (Nuclear, Biological and Chemical) outfits, head-to-foot. Clearly, there’s still more to be found about the Watton story.

hazmat1-570x293.png


How about the issue of prison evacuations in relation to the Rendlesham events? Nineteen-Eighty-Six was the year in which the late Graham Birdsall – who ran the popular and successful U.K.-based UFO Magazine – had a notable conversation with a man named George Wild. Back in the eighties, Wild was employed as a prison officer at a facility called Armley Prison. Built in the 19th century, and located in Leeds, England, it is a “Class C” jail, which means the prisoners are considered those who “cannot be trusted in open conditions but who are unlikely to try to escape.” George Wild quietly confided in Birdsall something highly disturbing, something that he had learned from a fellow officer: that on the night of December 27, 1980, the U.K. government’s Home Office was hastily readying local law-enforcement personnel to evacuate several prisons in Suffolk. Wild said that he knew for sure one of the prisons was HM [Her Majesty’s] Prison Highpoint North. It’s situated in the village of Stradishall, Suffolk, which is approximately forty-four miles from Woodbridge. The late Georgina Bruni learned that HM Prison Hollesley was primed for evacuation, too, when everything got crazy in the woods. Anyone up for focusing their research on the prison story? In all likelihood, there’s still a huge story here to be exposed.

rendlesham-forest-incident-570x320.jpg


Another story concerning the Rendlesham case that many may not know about: In a July 31, 1994 lecture at Leeds, England, Charles Halt (formerly Colonel Charles Halt, USAF, one of those that had witnessed the strange object in Rendlesham Forest) divulged his recollections of what had occurred fourteen-years previously. During the course of his lecture, Halt astounded the audience by revealing something that had been hitherto unknown: an unscheduled C141 transporter aircraft arrived at Woodbridge just hours after the initial encounter, and a group of “special individuals” departed from the aircraft, headed straight out of Woodbridge’s East Gate, and disappeared into the forest. Food for thought, indeed. All of the events I’ve described in this article are pretty much of a lesser-known nature. It doesn’t have to be like that, though. There are plenty of threads in this article that can allow for things to be taken further. It just requires people to realize the story of Rendlesham Forest is nowhere near over. There are plenty of Rendlesham secrets still to be investigated and exposed.

Things About the Rendlesham Forest “UFO Landing” You May Not Know About
By Nick Redfern

Just about everyone has heard of the Rendlesham Forest “UFO landing” of December 1980. There are, however, some aspects of the story you may not have heard of. So, today, I thought I would share with you some of those lesser-known “things.” To understand exactly what occurred in the woods on those fateful nights, it’s important that we go back to the beginning: (a) the events themselves; and (b) a near-legendary memo on the incidents that was carefully prepared by Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt. At the time, he was the Deputy Base Commander at RAF Bentwaters. On January 13, 1981, Halt prepared the following report; it was sent to the U.K. Ministry of Defense (MoD) for scrutiny. It gives a fairly brief – but certainly detailed – account of what happened. A portion of that memo states the following: “Early in the morning of 27 Dec 80 (approximately 0300L) two USAF security police patrolmen saw unusual lights outside the back gate at RAF Woodbridge. Thinking an aircraft might have crashed or been forced down, they called for permission to go outside the gate to investigate. The on-duty flight chief responded and allowed three patrolmen to proceed on foot. The individuals reported seeing a strange glowing object in the forest. 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. It illuminated the entire forest with a white light. The object itself had a pulsing red light on top and a bank(s) of blue lights underneath. The object was hovering or on legs. As the patrolmen approached the object, it maneuvered through the trees and disappeared. At this time the animals on a nearby farm went into a frenzy. The object was briefly sighted approximately an hour later near the back gate.”

Rendlesham-cover-Large-570x419.jpg


There was, of course, much more to it all than what was just in the memo. Much of it is well-known now. It’s the lesser known aspects of the story I’m going to share with you today, though. Here we go with our first story: As Ian Ridpath notes: “At 21.07 on the evening of 1980 December 25 (i.e. a mere six hours before the supposed UFO landing in Rendlesham Forest) the Russian Cosmos 749 rocket re-entered over north-west Europe and was widely reported as a UFO.” Were fragments of something of Russian origins secretly retrieved from the forest? Or, near to it? I don’t know. But, I do think it would be worth it to have someone look into this particularly eye-opening saga of a Russian angle to Rendlesham. Moving on, there’s the matter of the events that occurred in the same time-frame, but not at the Royal Air Force bases of Woodbridge and Benwaters. Rather, this story all went down at Royal Air Force Watton, which is in Norfolk, just one county away from the woods. On October 25, 1988 Squadron Leader E.E. Webster of RAF Watton wrote me the following, after I raised questions about RAF Watton’s claimed connections to the Rendlesham Forest case: “Our log book for the period does indeed say that a UFO was reported to us by RAF Bentwaters at 0325 GMT on 28 December 1980 but that is all the information we have.” Apparently, though, it actually wasn’t “all the information we have.” Someone – or an agency – was being decidedly economic with the facts, such as those facts were. Apparently, on the very same night that staff at RAF Watton recorded the presence of a UFO (on December 28, 1980), a pair of military dog-handlers were patrolling the facility when something very strange happened. The pair was shocked and baffled to see just outside the perimeter fence a number of figures. No, they were not aliens. They were all too human: they were dressed in NBC (Nuclear, Biological and Chemical) outfits, head-to-foot. Clearly, there’s still more to be found about the Watton story.

hazmat1-570x293.png


How about the issue of prison evacuations in relation to the Rendlesham events? Nineteen-Eighty-Six was the year in which the late Graham Birdsall – who ran the popular and successful U.K.-based UFO Magazine – had a notable conversation with a man named George Wild. Back in the eighties, Wild was employed as a prison officer at a facility called Armley Prison. Built in the 19th century, and located in Leeds, England, it is a “Class C” jail, which means the prisoners are considered those who “cannot be trusted in open conditions but who are unlikely to try to escape.” George Wild quietly confided in Birdsall something highly disturbing, something that he had learned from a fellow officer: that on the night of December 27, 1980, the U.K. government’s Home Office was hastily readying local law-enforcement personnel to evacuate several prisons in Suffolk. Wild said that he knew for sure one of the prisons was HM [Her Majesty’s] Prison Highpoint North. It’s situated in the village of Stradishall, Suffolk, which is approximately forty-four miles from Woodbridge. The late Georgina Bruni learned that HM Prison Hollesley was primed for evacuation, too, when everything got crazy in the woods. Anyone up for focusing their research on the prison story? In all likelihood, there’s still a huge story here to be exposed.

rendlesham-forest-incident-570x320.jpg


Another story concerning the Rendlesham case that many may not know about: In a July 31, 1994 lecture at Leeds, England, Charles Halt (formerly Colonel Charles Halt, USAF, one of those that had witnessed the strange object in Rendlesham Forest) divulged his recollections of what had occurred fourteen-years previously. During the course of his lecture, Halt astounded the audience by revealing something that had been hitherto unknown: an unscheduled C141 transporter aircraft arrived at Woodbridge just hours after the initial encounter, and a group of “special individuals” departed from the aircraft, headed straight out of Woodbridge’s East Gate, and disappeared into the forest. Food for thought, indeed. All of the events I’ve described in this article are pretty much of a lesser-known nature. It doesn’t have to be like that, though. There are plenty of threads in this article that can allow for things to be taken further. It just requires people to realize the story of Rendlesham Forest is nowhere near over. There are plenty of Rendlesham secrets still to be investigated and exposed.


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Working patrol and as an entry controller at RAF Bentwaters and sister base RAF Woodbridge in Law Enforcement from May 1978 - December 15, 1980 was an invisible war zone. The mine fields designed by Major Zickler then the 81st Security Police Squadron Commander created a high attrition of airmen being discharged because they asked questions or felt something was off about the bases. Compartmentalizing our communication made it difficult for and wanting answers. There were frightening places at both bases. From off base looking onto the two small sleepy bases you would think the stress level was low. The problem was the stress level at both bases were through the roof. The high strangeness of both bases needs to be examined. It isn’t only the events during late December 1980, it shares a long history and continues to this day. Interestingly, the squadron commander and the majority of the 81st Tactical Fighter Wing were absent while their airmen were dealt with a dangerous entity that to this day has effected airmen similar to those who have spent time in a hostile war zone. Most of the airmen want and deserve answers. My sighting in February 1980 flew low over RAF Woodbridge. Fortunately for me I was not alone, having my colleague Airman First Class Keith Duffield also witness the sighting. We both experienced losing 2 hours of time. There were other events that are difficult for me to talk about because I cannot corroborate what I witnessed through my mind’s eye. I have been deeply disappointed with several researchers who speak with authority yet create more problems. Someone on this page mentioned Richard Dolan’s wife and her credential or possible lack of credentials. I know Nick Pope is a fraud who used nepotism getting a job at MOD at the age of 20, meaning Nick didn’t complete college too. Nick led me to believe he worked for MOD in 1980. He would have been all of 15 years old. Sometimes it isn’t what the researchers discuss or study, often it is what they hold back. I do not know Nick Redfern and I believe giving him the benefit of the doubt, however he is focused on those few nights in December. Nick Redfern, I hope will do further research because there are many important witnesses who are still alive.
 

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Working patrol and as an entry controller at RAF Bentwaters and sister base RAF Woodbridge in Law Enforcement from May 1978 - December 15, 1980 was an invisible war zone. The mine fields designed by Major Zickler then the 81st Security Police Squadron Commander created a high attrition of airmen being discharged because they asked questions or felt something was off about the bases. Compartmentalizing our communication made it difficult for and wanting answers. There were frightening places at both bases. From off base looking onto the two small sleepy bases you would think the stress level was low. The problem was the stress level at both bases were through the roof. The high strangeness of both bases needs to be examined. It isn’t only the events during late December 1980, it shares a long history and continues to this day. Interestingly, the squadron commander and the majority of the 81st Tactical Fighter Wing were absent while their airmen were dealt with a dangerous entity that to this day has effected airmen similar to those who have spent time in a hostile war zone. Most of the airmen want and deserve answers. My sighting in February 1980 flew low over RAF Woodbridge. Fortunately for me I was not alone, having my colleague Airman First Class Keith Duffield also witness the sighting. We both experienced losing 2 hours of time. There were other events that are difficult for me to talk about because I cannot corroborate what I witnessed through my mind’s eye. I have been deeply disappointed with several researchers who speak with authority yet create more problems. Someone on this page mentioned Richard Dolan’s wife and her credential or possible lack of credentials. I know Nick Pope is a fraud who used nepotism getting a job at MOD at the age of 20, meaning Nick didn’t complete college too. Nick led me to believe he worked for MOD in 1980. He would have been all of 15 years old. Sometimes it isn’t what the researchers discuss or study, often it is what they hold back. I do not know Nick Redfern and I believe giving him the benefit of the doubt, however he is focused on those few nights in December. Nick Redfern, I hope will do further research because there are many important witnesses who are still alive.
Welcome to AE. Could bases around the world have been positioned on preexisting alien and supernatural hot spots? It seems to be the case with national forests/parks in the US. According to the author Peter Moon since WWI bases have been placed on lay line intersections around the world. He wrote these points are marked with traffic circles like at Montauk, Long Island.

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Most of the airmen want and deserve answers. My sighting in February 1980 flew low over RAF Woodbridge. Fortunately for me I was not alone, having my colleague Airman First Class Keith Duffield also witness the sighting. We both experienced losing 2 hours of time.
Welcome, really interesting. Can you share more details about the lost time event?
 

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The mine fields designed by Major Zickler then the 81st Security Police Squadron Commander created a high attrition of airmen being discharged because they asked questions or felt something was off about the bases.

Welcome to AE !

That sounds interesting. Always a human backstory and context is important. Please do tell.
 
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