Rendlesham Forest Incident – 26th – 28th Dec 1980
The
Rendlesham forest incident is the most famous of all UFO cases in the United Kingdom and arguably 2nd only to Roswell in the English speaking world.
At first glance it appears that witness testimony from US military officers and the physical evidence makes this an absolute nailed on genuine UFO
landing case close to twin RAF bases leased to the USAF at Bentwaters/Woodbridge in Suffolk during the Christmas holiday period in 1980. But delve
deeper and the waters are muddy. There are many unanswered questions, plenty of contradictions, and conflicting testimony. Even if you don’t think
the case has anything to do with ET though this is still a very interesting story to sift through. There are already a number of threads that go into great detail on Rendlesham.
But, for those not familiar with the story here is a brief synopsis. I guess many will not be familiar with the events of the 26/27th. However I have based this on a 2009 interview that John Burroughs gave to the Paracast. As he was present on the 1st investigation and the night when Colonel Halt ventured into the forest then it does explain the timeline more clearly.
25/26th Dec 1980 - Late on Christmas Night 1980 3 USAF security men (Ed Cabansag, Jim Penniston and John Burroughs) respond to a call to investigate lights and a possible downed aircraft. What they appear to witness is a landed UFO in Rendlesham Forest which eventually disappears at rapid speed into the sky.
26/27th Dec 1980 – Whilst the officers involved on the first night were off duty the Shift Commander goes out into the forest to investigate further strange lights in the forest. Her vehicle stalls and a small ball sized blue light flies through her vehicle. She is then sent home as she is so disturbed by the incident.
27/28th Dec - the UFO returns and the Deputy Base Commander Colonel Halt joins a
team of men who see strange lights blinking and moving through the forest and above Woodbridge and Bentwaters bases. They also detect radiation in the
forest in the area where the UFO was believed to have landed. More alarming is the strange laser like beams coming down onto the airbase and their
patrol from what appeared to have been a controlled craft in the sky above them. Another witness, Larry Warren, even claims to have seen a commanding officer attempting communication with 3 small alien beings in the forest and that the whole incident was filmed. Warren also claims to have been drugged shortly afterwards and taken to a secret underground base. A location where he was ‘de-briefed’ and told to stay silent because “…bullets are cheap”.
In later years Jim Penniston claimed to have touched and sketched a triangular craft with strange glyph markings on it. In 2010 he produced a notebook containing binary code which he had somehow downloaded and memorized after touching the craft. The code was translated back into English and displayed a strange message.
EXPLORATION [of] HUMANITY
52° 09’ 42.532” N
13° 13’ 12.69” W
CONTI[NUOS]
FOR PLANETARY ADVAN[CE]

There is plenty of evidence to back up the claims of the airmen involved. Much of this is now in the public domain. Next morning, Penniston made plaster casts of what appeared to have been indentations left from the landing gear from the UFO in the forest.
Halt’s team returned with positive radiation readings from the alleged landing sight and a micro cassette recording of the investigation as events unfold in real time. There are witness statements (some of which are contradictory) and even an official memo to the RAF Liaison Officer confirming the sightings (although the details are low key and the date of the first encounter is wrong).
More recently, Nigel Kerr, the RAF radar operator, on duty during the first night confirms that he saw a number of radar blips over the Bentwaters area before the signal faded out completely.
Harder to establish are the claims that video tape of the events was allegedly sent to USAFE HQ ,Ramstein, Germany and that investigators from both British and and US security services were crawling all over the base in the aftermath of the event.
Rendlesham continues below >>>



Bizarrely the police officer, PC Alan Godfrey, who discovered Adamski’s body was
to also see a bright, fuzzy, oval shaped UFO at 5am on 28th November 1980 whilst searching for some cows reported missing. The cattle were later
discovered in a rain soaked field without any hint of tracks showing how they had arrived there. Meanwhile Godfrey had decided to call his search off
and began to head back to the station. He could see lights ahead and assumed he was approaching a works bus that made a regular early morning journey
and he had seen before. However as he drove closer he realized he was not looking at a bus. There was an oval shaped object in front of him which
appeared to be rotating at a very low altitude. The foliage close by could be seen being disturbed as if there was a strong wind blowing. He stopped
to make notes and took out a pad he kept in the patrol car. There was a flash of light and the next thing he remembers is driving along the same road
further on his journey.
He agreed to undergo hypnotic regression which revealed a very strange tale. The
session revealed he had been taken to a strange room, like the living room of a house, complete with a black dog. He was studied by a heavily bearded
man dressed in biblical style clothing who telepathically conveyed that his name was "Yosef" or "Josef". Assisting Yosef were several small
robot-like creatures that maybe resembled Grey aliens in some details but differed in others. His hypnotic memories were also more like dream
sequences than the common intrusive abduction tales that have permeated since the late 1970s.
In the early 21st century the MoD, allegedly, released all its files on Rendlesham
and dismissed the case because there was no perceived threat to national security. However many involved in the case believe it to be far from closed
and that secret documents on both sides of the Atlantic will never be released. Colonel Halt went on record in 2010 to say: 

During the evening of Sept 15th 1985 the McMurray family was travelling home to
Farnborough along the A322 towards Bagshot in their family car. They turned onto the B311 – Red Road for Farnborough just after 9pm. As they turned
a slight bend in the road they were astounded to see an object hovering above the road some 60 yards in front. The intensity of the light caused the
driver, David McMurray to look away for a moment. He noticed another similar object to their rear hovering just above the tree line and following
them. The first object had now risen silently into the sky and vanished and a White Volvo behind had stopped and pulled over. The second UFO continued
to follow them. 
At first McMurray resisted hypnosis therapy. However the whole experience troubled
him and he finally agreed on the 12th Jan 1986. The hypnosis session revealed that “The Guardians” from Epsylon 44L – 47L had contacted him via
a telepathic type of process during his UFO encounter. McMurray seemed confused by the message. When asked who or what the Guardians were he kept
repeating; “Don’t Know.….Should Know”.
) claims the coal
was 20 foot high! The cause of death was apparently heart attack. 