#The forest mods brighter torches series#

The memorandum, was dated '13В Jan 1981' under the title 'Unexplained Lights'. Known as the 'Halt memo', this was made publicly available in the United States under the U.S. The first piece of primary evidence to be made available to the public was a memorandum written by the deputy base commander, Lieutenant Colonel Charles I. Letter from Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt to the UK Ministry of Defence. Astronomers have explained these star-like lights as bright stars. Halt said that the brightest of these hovered for two to three hours and seemed to beam down a stream of light from time to time. Later, according to Halt's memo, three star-like lights were seen in the sky, two to the north and one to the south, about 10 degrees above the horizon. The Orford Ness lighthouse is visible further to the east in the same line of sight. It was during this investigation that a flashing light was seen across the field to the east, almost in line with a farmhouse, as the witnesses had seen on the first night. Halt recorded the events on a micro-cassette recorder (see В§ The Halt Tape).

Furthermore, they detected a similar small 'burst' over half a mile away from the landing site. Although they recorded 0.07 milliroentgens per hour, in other regions they detected 0.03 to 0.04 milliroentgens per hour, around the background level. They took radiation readings in the triangle of depressions and in the surrounding area using an AN/PDR-27, a standard U.S. The deputy base commander, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt, visited the site with several servicemen in the early hours of 28 December 1980 (reported as 29 December by Halt). Georgina Bruni, in her book You Can't Tell the People, published a photograph of the supposed landing site taken on the morning after the first sighting. At 10:30 the local police were called out again, this time to see the impressions, which they thought could have been made by an animal. ДЄfter daybreak on the morning of 26 December, servicemen returned to a small clearing near the eastern edge of the forest and found three small impressions on the ground in a triangular pattern, as well as burn marks and broken branches on nearby trees. Shortly after 04:00 local police were called to the scene but reported that the only lights they could see were those from the Orford Ness lighthouse, some miles away on the coast. One of the servicemen, Sergeant Jim Penniston, later claimed to have encountered a 'craft of unknown origin' while in the forest, although there was no publicised mention of this at the time and there is no corroboration from other witnesses. As they attempted to approach the object, it appeared to move through the trees, and 'the animals on a nearby farm went into a frenzy'. Servicemen initially thought it was a downed aircraft but, upon entering the forest to investigate they saw, according to Halt's memo, what they described as a glowing object, metallic in appearance, with coloured lights. These lights have been attributed by astronomers to a piece of natural debris seen burning up as a fireball (meteor) over southern England at that time. Main events 26 December ДЄround 03:00 on 26 December 1980 (reported as 27 December by Halt in his memo to the UK Ministry of Defence) a security patrol near the east gate of RAF Woodbridge saw lights apparently descending into nearby Rendlesham Forest.

3.3 Statements from eyewitnesses on 26 December.

#The forest mods brighter torches series#

Sceptics have explained the sightings as a misinterpretation of a series of nocturnal lights: a fireball, the Orfordness Lighthouse and bright stars. The UK Ministry of Defence has stated the event posed no threat to national security, and therefore, it was never investigated as a security matter. It has been compared to the Roswell UFO incident in the United States and is sometimes referred to as 'Britain's Roswell'. The occurrence is the most famous of claimed UFO events to have happened in the United Kingdom, and is among the best-known reported UFO events worldwide. Halt, claimed to see things they described as a UFO sighting. USAF personnel, including deputy base commander Lieutenant Colonel Charles I. The events occurred just outside RAF Woodbridge, which was used at the time by the United States Air Force (USAF). The Rendlesham Forest incident was a series of reported sightings of unexplained lights near Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk, England in late December 1980 which became linked with claims of UFO landings. Security fencing at the site of the former East Gate of RAF Woodbridge where the incident began in December, 1980.