RAF Chicksands UFO Report - high strangeness or hoax, page 2

reply to post by nomadros

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The chances of anyone on the base, or attached to it, having the slightest clue about events almost 50 years ago are between nowt and very little. For one thing. it's back under British aegis , it was American back then and any "history" would have been mostly aural and long gone by now.

If you really want to find out there's a facebook page for the base with several people from the period contemporary to the incident as members, you could start there and then try shops in the locality and find a general store or new agents who have been around for half a century see what they remember.

As for liars, well there's a hell of a lot of them in debunking field. Klass was almost pathological in consistently lying about evidence and witnesses, Charles Moore has been shown to have falsified the data for the so called Mogul Balloon flight path. Both those people's work are quoted time and time again by people who are falling over themselves to have a go shysters like Greer.

reply to post by FireMoon

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>you could start there and then try shops in the locality and find a general store or new agents who have been around for half a century see what they remember

Yup I did all that + local farmers, pubs etc. 50 years ago, this place was in the middle of nowhere and now it's in the London commuter belt. Shefford (next door to it) was a small village and going 5 miles to the next village was a major journey that you undertook on a special occasion. Local locals whose families have been around for that long are in short supply as most residents these days have come from other parts of the UK or the world.

For example all the shops in the area are now owned by an Indian mate of mine and his family, anything else that's was a shop is now a takeaway (owned by his mates), a lot of fields have been built on or are rental only from companies, pubs are owned by breweries not people etc etc.

I take your point about FB but I won't go near it. If someone wants to make contact with people that way and arrange meetings, I'm more than willing meet up with anyone who's willing to talk.

I did a google and the same story was just repeated on a few sites. I'd have to go to a local library to view papers from that era, which is something I didn't do as I had 2 weeks and a job in London to do as well.

Saying that I've got pretty much jack to do over the next couple of weeks so I could see if any libraries are left in the area as they tend to be mobile these days from a central depot. If anyone wants to FB people, then get a list of talkers and I'll meet them. I'm driving up there this afternoon. Oh..in case you're wondering the virtual library doesn't have anything

New addition....I found this list of names and email addresses and have emailed a local author who is on this list and who has written a few books on the place
that I found after searching this site. We'll see what shows up.

Originally posted by FireMoon
reply to post by nomadros

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For one thing. it's back under British aegis , it was American back then and any "history" would have been mostly aural and long gone by now.

Was about to state the same.

Spent a little bit of time at Chicksands whilst it was a USAF base, in the 80's whilst with the MoD and in the 90''s as a contractor. In that time the only people who would have lived on site were American military, not aware of any British personnel barracked there and I imagine that would have been the same whilst under USAF control in the 60's.

You have to remember that as a USAF base it was considered American soil and as such the British police and even military had no precedence, unless working "with" their American counterparts. Shops on site took US$, the burger bars were much better than Wimpey and even the police cars were of the Blues Brothers variety.

Despite the rotational nature of many of the staff (another reason why any gossip may not have expanded) there was a definite "apple pie community" feel to the base. Unfortunately this was damaged when, at the annual airshow (85 or 86), fighting broke out between people from the nearby RAF Henlow base and USAF servicemen which escalated into a full scale riot that tragically resulted in an American receiving fatal injuries. Sadly but perhaps understandably MoD / USAF and local relations were strained and the base never felt the same afterwards.

Due to the local topography it is quite possible that any object hovering low over the base would not be seen elsewhere, the bulk of it does sit within a bit of a bowl. If anything provided a radar return it would likely have been picked up by RAF Henlow.

I'm just using this space to compile data, so don't get excited.

site photos from the 60s

an old list of email addresses of personnel which includes the years each person was stationed there.

This'll go with the email address list above for rabidhampster

reply to post by douggie60

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No doubt probably quite a few RAF people have seen UFO's, my story was in support of her's. I have seen a few more since then, and now my immediate family have also seen UFO's.

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