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Post by auntym on Feb 16, 2011 12:33:36 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on Feb 16, 2011 12:46:28 GMT -6
Rendlesham Forest Case 1 of 6
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Post by auntym on Mar 3, 2011 10:12:31 GMT -6
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-126136902 March 2011 UFO files reveal 'Rendlesham incident' papers missingBy Neil Henderson BBC News Intelligence papers on a reported UFO sighting known as the "Rendlesham incident" have gone missing, files from the National Archives reveal. The missing files relate to a report of mysterious lights from US servicemen at RAF Woodbridge in Suffolk in 1980. The disappearance came to light with the release of 8,000 previously classified documents on UFOs. Officials found a "huge" gap where defence intelligence files relating to the case should be, the papers show. TO CONTINUE READING CLICK ON ABOVE LINK
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Post by Steve on Mar 3, 2011 19:21:51 GMT -6
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-126136902 March 2011 UFO files reveal 'Rendlesham incident' papers missingBy Neil Henderson BBC News Intelligence papers on a reported UFO sighting known as the "Rendlesham incident" have gone missing, files from the National Archives reveal. The missing files relate to a report of mysterious lights from US servicemen at RAF Woodbridge in Suffolk in 1980. The disappearance came to light with the release of 8,000 previously classified documents on UFOs. Officials found a "huge" gap where defence intelligence files relating to the case should be, the papers show. TO CONTINUE READING CLICK ON ABOVE LINK Why am I not surprised. Documents or not, it still happened. By having the documents disappear, this alone will create many new conspiracies and hyperbola on the Internet, which will usually in and of itself drown out the facts of the case over time in the resulting confusion and claims. Someone that saw to the files disappearing seems to be counting on this. Still, much exists related to this fascinating case. I suspect the motive why the documents were removed before being available for public examination would be related as to 'who', or what agency, or what government would have a 'need to know' related to the 1980 event. Knowing clearly what 'players' would reveal much. I suspect who ever they are, we would likely not be too surprised, but it would at least confirm a truth, which could connect other things related to UFO's too perhaps. Former First Sea Lord Hill Norton coldly & objectively thought there were two possibilities; either everyone involved was hallucinating or it happened basically the way Halt reported. To quote Admiral Norton: “That the Colonel of an American AF base in Suffolk and his merry men are hallucinating, when there are nuclear armed aircraft on the base, must be of defense interest. . . . If indeed, what he says took place did take place, . . . and why on earth should he make it up, . . . then surely, the entry of a vehicle from outer space, certainly not man-made, to a defense base in this country, also cannot fail to be of defense interest.” The Admiral's position concerning the issue of whether he believed Halt and Penniston in regard to their testimonies was quite clear. Here is a person with better than average perspective and insight into these matters, since he had occupied the critical post of Chief of Defense Staff for seven years. Nick Pope concerning the Bentwaters/Rendlesham case. Pope worked for the MOD (Ministry of Defense) and had investigated UFOs officially for the British government from 1991-1994. Nick Pope: "I re-opened the (jc: Rendlesham) case and conducted a sort of cold-case review of the original investigation, and I was shocked to find a series of basic errors had been committed; exactly the same sort of errors that often fatally undermine a police investigation." Some startling evidence from the ministry of defense's files. Nick Pope: “This is one of the most important documents to emerge from the MOD's case files.” “It's from an assistant director in (jc: district ?) 52. This is their assessment of the radiation readings at the landing site.” “Now here is the key bit . . . these levels seem significantly higher than the average background, and In fact, I double-checked this with some other government scientists, It's about eight times normal. So this is absolute proof-positive, from the MOD's own documentation, that something extraordinary happened." If the Rendlesham Forest files are apparently missing now, note Nick Pope was able to access them himself at sometime in the past himself as a cold case - confirming they did exist and contained some astonishing facts seen with Pope's own eyes. Steve
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Post by auntym on Dec 28, 2011 15:20:06 GMT -6
nyufo.bravesites.com/entries/general/31st-anniversary-of-rendlesham-forest-ufo-incident 31st Anniversary of Rendlesham Forest UFO Incident[/color] Posted December 28, 2011 UFO New York: Around 3 a.m. on 26 December 1980 an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) was reported by a security patrol near the East Gate of RAF Woodbridge. Servicemen initially thought it was a downed aircraft but, upon entering the forest to investigate, they saw many strange lights moving through the trees, as well as a bright light from an unidentified object. After daybreak on the morning of 26 December, servicemen returned to the small clearing where the conical object had been seen, and found three small impressions in a triangular pattern, as well as burn marks and broken branches on nearby trees. Plaster casts of the imprints were taken and have been shown in television documentaries. Servicemen from RAF Woodbridge's sister base, RAF Bentwaters, returned to the forest again, following another sighting in the early hours of 28 December 1980. The deputy base commander Lt Col Charles I. Halt recorded the events on a micro-cassette recorder. The site investigated by Halt was near the eastern edge of the forest, at approximately 52° 05 20 N, 1° 26 57 E. Later, lights were seen in the sky to the north and south, the brightest of which beamed down a stream of light. PART 1 .....................................................................................PART 2 ...... Uploaded by EyesOnTheSkies on Feb 8, 2009
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Post by swamprat on Dec 28, 2011 19:20:41 GMT -6
Wow! I did not know that the Rendlesham Incident forum was defunct! After seeing Auntym's post, I thought I would drop in on the Forum and see what they were saying on their anniversary----this is what popped up instead:
rendlesham-incident.co.uk (RENDLESHAM-INCIDENT.CO.UK) is for sale
Sales Price: 480 £ (Currency conversion based on today's rate. 575 EUR / 752 USD)
Offer Details This domain name without content is available for sale by its owner through Sedo's Domain Marketplace.
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Post by Steve on Dec 28, 2011 21:13:17 GMT -6
Thanks Paul,
This website has a very nice graphic look, and I like how they present the weekly Filer's Files there, better than the filers Files itself does presenting it in a modern looking distinguished white font on the black background.
Maybe the website feels it was time to move on? Or maybe everything that can be hashed out on their forum has? Many other websites have embraced this case too, so perhaps it has been left by the web-side.
I looked around but did not see the for sale sign.
It should probably be bought I hope by someone in the UK due to geographic proximity. That way it can incorporate more unique local knowledge to offer something other sites cannot provide.
As long as Bigelow doesn't buy it and pluck it up. There would seem to be no profit in doing so for him anyway. Also I doubt he would since there maybe no other case files or data bases there buy and sevret away. I like the sites graphics. Very colorful and balanced visually.
Steve
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Post by auntym on Dec 28, 2011 22:55:28 GMT -6
who owned the forum originally? was it CHARLES HALT?
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Post by auntym on May 2, 2013 11:32:47 GMT -6
Rendlesham UFO Interview from Citizen Hearing on Disclosure Published on May 1, 2013 Today we interviewed (from left) John Burroughs, Jim Penniston, and Nick Pope via Skype. They are currently participating in the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure in Washington D.C. John Burroughs and Jim Penniston were U.S. Air Force security personnel in late December of 1980 when there was a mass UFO sighting outside of two Royal Air Force bases, RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge, that were being used by the U.S. Air Force. Burroughs and Penniston went out into the Rendlesham forest to investigate unidentified lights. They came across a craft that Penniston actually touched before it lifted up above the trees and took off at a very fast speed. Nick Pope is a former employee of Britain's Ministry of Defence, where he officially investigated UFOs. In this interview Penniston and Burroughs explain how they have had problems obtaining their service and medical records during the time of the UFO event. The former congress members who heard their presentation today vowed to help them get their records, even if it means going to the President. Read more at: www.openminds.tv
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Post by auntym on May 2, 2013 11:45:16 GMT -6
The Rendlesham Forest UFO Landing (1980) - The Story [/color] Uploaded on Aug 5, 2011 More at: www.aboutalien.comaboutalien.com/2011/07/the-ren... Just about the most persuasive reports of Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) encounters relate to England. This is due the Rendlesham Forest Incident which consist of a number of documented sightings of mysterious lights and the assumed landing of a craft or multiple craft of unknown origin in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England, During the Christmass holidays in 1980, just outside of Royal Air Force Woodbridge, utilised at that time by the U.S. Air Force. Consider the story told by many witnesses and observe visually what has happened during the couple of nights in the Rendlesham Forrest. Source: Case #80101, UFO Hunters, History Channel
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Post by auntym on May 31, 2013 11:05:50 GMT -6
Citizen Hearing 2013 - The RAF Bentwaters Classified Medical Records Conspiracy
Published on May 29, 2013
FORMER CONGRESSIONAL PANEL EXPRESSES CONCERN TO OBAMA.
Write letter of support on behalf of USAF Veterans.
By Patrick Frascogna
JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, May 24, 2013 -- Six former members of congress have signed a letter to President Obama 'expressing concern' over lack of response by the Veterans Administration to requests for medical records pertinent to the medical treatment of two career United States Air Force veterans who suffer from medical disability stemming from contact with an object of unknown origin while on duty as base security at the U.S. airbase at RAF Bentwaters in December of 1980.
Retired Tech Sergeants John Burroughs and James Penniston claim the government is denying them proper treatment for injuries sustained in the line of duty as base security at the U.S. airbase at RAF Bentwaters in December of 1980. Penniston and Burroughs were the first on-scene responders to a potential base incursion by an object of unknown origin into one of the most sensitive United States Air Force installations at the height of the cold war. As such, the pair were momentarily on the front lines of the USAF defense establishment in Europe.
The most perplexing aspect of the case is the apparent classified status of the records in question by the Veterans Administration. The pair testified before the former congress members in April at the Citizens Hearing on Disclosure.
The former Congresspersons include former Senator Mike Gavel, Alaska and former House of Representatives members Merrill Cook, Utah; Roscoe Bartlett, Maryland; Darlene Hooley, Oregon; Carolyn Kirkpatrick, Michigan and Lynn Woolsey, California.
The letter, a copy of which was sent to both President Barack Obama and the Head of the Veterans Administration, said in part:
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Post by auntym on Jul 4, 2013 11:35:24 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2013 10:33:19 GMT -6
I'm thinking that the bi-code had something to do with explaining our ancestry. at least that was one take on it. Along those lines, what if him touching the ufo somehow gave himself a 'read out' from a history of his own brain? "They" were reading him, and because we are thinking beings, he got what they read off?
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Post by swamprat on Aug 17, 2013 20:23:47 GMT -6
DeVoid
DVA should douse this brushfireBy Billy Cox, Herald-Tribune / Friday, August 16, 2013 Three months after six former members of Congress formally appealed to the White House and the Department of Veterans Affairs for the release of medical service records to two Air Force veterans, the initiative has gone nowhere. Fortunately for the USAF, this also involves a UFO encounter, which means the military’s pretty much off the hook because nobody’s paying any attention. Yet. The principals in this case are retired tech sergeants Jim Penniston and John Burroughs, the 81st Security Police Squadron veterans who were first responders to what would become known as the Rendlesham Forest Incident in December 1980. Its centerpiece was the alleged nighttime landing of a UFO in a stretch of woods between two U.S. air bases in eastern England. No desire now to wedge that blue whale into this small space, but rehashing the details that have bitterly divided “skeptics” and “believers” wasn’t the reason Burroughs and Penniston agreed to testify at the controversial Citizen Hearing on Disclosure’s mock congressional exercise in Washington, D.C., in May. These guys just wanted to see their medical records from when they were in the military. They’ve been trying, unsuccessfully, to acquire them since 2011. Twenty-five years ago, De Void spent months wading through the shuck-and-jive of what was then the Veterans Administration as it routinely denied military service-connected disability compensation to troops who developed radiogenic illnesses from exposure to fallout from atmospheric nuclear testing. There were no presumptive qualifying diseases back then, at least not until Congress finally intervened, and the VA’s traditional fallback formula was always that a number of requested records had been -- sorry, folks! -- lost in an archives fire in 1974. Which was actually true. Some of those denials, however, were egregiously careless. I’ll never forget Sallie Hoyle, the very sweet Florida widow of an Army grunt named Fred Hoyle, who was ordered into ground zero from Camp Desert Rock, Nev., in 1953. Fred died horribly of cancer 20 years later but the VA said its records indicated he’d never been deployed to the Nevada Test Site. But Sallie still retained the vinyl recording of an on-location media interview Fred gave prior to the shot, the same disc the Army itself had proudly forwarded to Frank’s hometown radio station for one of those macabre espirit de corps broadcasts. Shortly after the "atomic veterans" newspaper series rolled — voila, and without explanation or apology — Fred’s records were located and Sallie was getting her bennies. In what was arguably the most interesting new testimony of the week-long Citizen Hearing witness parade, Burroughs and Penniston told listeners they were suffering from illnesses consistent with exposure to radiation, which they attributed to their encounter at Rendlesham Forest. Not only had the DVA been stonewalling on their medical records (a routine request, I’m told by local veterans service officers, that usually involves no more than a 90-day turnaround), Burroughs was actually informed there were no records of his USAF service at all during his initial stint from 1979-81. With an assist from Sen. John McCain’s office and his Jackson, Miss., attorney Pat Frascogna, Arizona resident Burroughs is working to acquire his DD-214 discharge papers from his first Air Force tour. Burroughs has already produced a point summary sheet indicating he was in the USAF in 1979. “At the very least,” Frascogna tells De Void, “we’re dealing with bureaucratic idiocy. At worst, we’re looking at a coverup.” And, as he informed the audience in Washington, Frascogna also sent FOIAs to the CIA, the NSA, DARPA, and the USAF Office Special Investigation — not to mention the USAF and the DVA — in hopes of getting some satisfaction. “None of them said they had any records we were looking for, except the CIA. They gave us a Glomar response.” Glomar is legal shorthand for “neither confirm nor deny.” “We don't intend to be the last two casualties of the Cold War, left hung out to dry by our chain of command and obsolete notions of national security,” Burroughs told the half dozen Citizens Hearing panelists in the spring. “There is no reason at this late date to deny us the information that could extend our lives, the bulk of which we spent in service to our country.” But still — no White House or DVA response to the Disclosure panelists’ appeal for clarity. “Not even a staff form letter saying we'll look into it,” says Frascogna. “This is insulting.” If one were going to be cynical and assume the DVA’s unwillingness or inability to produce those records is to save a few disability bucks, one might also venture an even more damaging long-run forecast. Fence-sitters on the Rendlesham Forest Incident might come to think the 1980 encounter — which occurred near an American nuclear weapons storage facility — had legitimate national security ramifications after all. Of course, nobody wants to believe that. But the longer this standoff simmers ... devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/13945/dva-should-douse-this-brushfire/
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Post by auntym on Oct 16, 2013 12:45:19 GMT -6
ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/did-radar-track-rendlesham-forest-uap.htmlUFOs - scientific research An examination of aspects of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) from a scientific perspective.Tuesday, October 15, 2013 Did radar track the Rendlesham Forest UAP? Part oneHi readers, Every now and then, a thought enters my mind about some aspect of the UAP phenomenon. A recent thought, was the question, was there radar tracking associated with the 1980 Rendlesham Forest incident? You would think there would be a definitive answer, readily available, but there is not. Most material I looked at on the net said the answer is a resounding "no." That there was no radar confirmation of the UAP. However, all is not what it seems. I'd like to take you on the journey which I followed in trying to answer this seemingly simple question. Sky Crash: My initial search started with a book that most blog readers probably haven't ever heard of, let alone read. The book is titled "Sky Crash: A Cosmic Conspiracy" by authors Brenda Butler, Jenny Randles and Dot Street. It was published by Neville Spearman, Essex, United Kingdom. In case you wish to track down a second hand copy its ISBN is 854-351-538. On page 24 of my copy, there is an account supplied to the authors by someone they refer to as "David Potts," a pseudonym for a then radar operator at Watton, Norfolk. Potts told a story which he said he had been told by one of his colleagues who had been on radar duty that night. The following is the account the authors described. On 27 December 1980, an unusual target was seen heading in from the coast. There was no military activity. "Watton lost the target about 50 miles south to the East of Ipswich and in the vicinity of Rendlesham Forest...They understood that other radar centres had tracked the object too..." (p.26.) "A couple of days after the tracking there were some unusual visitors to the radar station. They were intelligence officers from the United States Air Force. They were greatly interested in the recordings of the radar tracks from the night of the uncorrelated target...The radar men were told that it was possible that what they had tracked was an object that had crash landed into a forest near Ipswich. This had been a metallic UFO, a structured device of unknown origin..." (p.27.) "Potts definitely gave the date as 27 December, but added that the radar tapes this night and several others, were removed. He further claimed that RAAF Bentwaters had called Watton and asked for radar confirmation of an unusual sighting on that night as it was happening." (p.27.) So, "yes" is the answer to whether or not the Rendlesham object was tracked on radar. Comment: When I originally read this story, I thought it odd that USAF intelligence officers would have told any radar operator that a "UFO" was involved. Usually one reads that such individuals try and suppress UFO stories, not confirm them. I wondered if the account, which was second hand, wasn't some kind of disinformation exercise designed to cover up a non - UAP cause for the event. CONTINUE READING PART 1 : ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/did-radar-track-rendlesham-forest-uap.htmlPART 2: ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/did-radar-track-rendlesham-forest-uap_15.htmlPART 3: ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/did-radar-track-rendlesham-forest-uap_4477.html
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Post by auntym on Oct 27, 2013 11:42:22 GMT -6
The Bentwaters Incident: Captain Lori Rehfeldt Published on Oct 26, 2013 Captain Lori Rehfeldt, RAF Bentwaters. For more information, visit www.SiriusDisclosure.com.
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Post by auntym on Nov 2, 2013 14:58:23 GMT -6
The Lord Admiral on Bentwaters - Lord Hill-Norton, 5-Star Admiral / Dis Published on Oct 20, 2013 Thanks to James Fox for sharing this interview. For more information, visit www.SiriusDisclosure.com.
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Post by auntym on Jan 5, 2014 10:50:39 GMT -6
The Lost Rendlesham CNN Special
Published on Mar 14, 2012
CNN Special Assignment Filmed in Autumn 1984 ,Aired Feb 1985... Featuring Captain Mike Verrano.Master Sergeant Bob Ball. Master Sergeant Ray Guylus, Airman 1st Class. Larry Warren,Airman 1st Class Greg Bartram.Primary Witness Gerry Harris ,Primary Witness Gordon Levett ,Forrester Vince Thurkettle .This was at the time the highest ranking program on CNN
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Post by auntym on Mar 8, 2014 14:55:02 GMT -6
ufodigest.com/article/rendelsham-0308ENCOUNTER IN RENDLESHAM FORESTBy Nick Pope March 08, 2014 The Rendlesham Forest incident is displacing Roswell as ufology’s flagship case. The death last year of Jesse Marcel Jr. was probably the final nail in the Roswell coffin, as the passing of the last main witness was the point at which Roswell moved from living memory into history. A string of recent TV shows leapfrogged Rendlesham ahead of Roswell, as TV networks and production companies realise there’s little more to be said about the 1947 crash, and focus instead on a case which is increasingly being regarded as comprising a ‘perfect storm’ of compelling evidence: an event that took place over three nights; that involved multiple witnesses, mainly in the military; a UFO that was tracked on radar; a structured craft that left physical evidence including scorch marks on the trees and radiation levels significantly higher than background levels; and most significantly, an audit trail of government documents that verify the key points of the case. After years of playing second fiddle to the charismatic Lt. Col. Charles Halt, the two witnesses at the heart of the case – John Burroughs and Jim Penniston – are finally getting their say. Parts of their story have been told in recent episodes of “Ancient Aliens”, Syfy’s “Paranormal Witness”, Discovery Canada’s “Alien Mysteries” and “Close Encounters”, and other shows – with more in the pipeline. Burroughs and Penniston were also the focus of much of the attention at last year’s Citizen Hearing on Disclosure. Their inability to obtain their own medical records from a classified section of the Department of Veterans Affairs so outraged the former Congressional representatives on the committee that they wrote to the President of the United States on their behalf. A federal lawsuit is planned. Next month, Burroughs and Penniston will publish their own account of the incident, in a book that I’ve co-written with them, entitled “Encounter in Rendlesham Forest”. In a world where books on UFOs are often self-published, or put out by small New Age presses, this title is being put out by one of the so-called “Big Six” publishers: Thomas Dunne Books is part of the giant Macmillan publishing house. This is important, because the marketing and publicity departments of the “Big Six” are able to generate mainstream media coverage for their titles, in a situation where serious coverage of the UFO phenomenon is hard to come by. Ufology gets few chances to get serious mainstream media coverage. Investigative journalist Leslie Kean’s book was one of the few UFO titles in recent years to break out of the paranormal niche. The five-year program to declassify and release the MoD’s UFO files gave me – as the public face of this ‘disclosure’ – a great opportunity to undertake TV, radio, newspaper and magazine interviews all around the world, keeping ufology in the public eye. But such events are the exception, not the rule, and “Encounter in Rendlesham Forest” may be one of those rare occasions when there’s a genuine chance to show the UFO phenomenon in a positive light. CONTINUE READING: ufodigest.com/article/rendelsham-0308
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Post by auntym on Apr 19, 2014 14:36:42 GMT -6
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2608082/Why-I-believe-aliens-landed-Suffolk-forest-No-Nick-Pope-isnt-UFO-fantasist-hes-ex-Ministry-Defence-expert-compelling-dossier-evidence.html Why I believe aliens landed in a Suffolk forest: No, Nick Pope isn't a UFO fantasist, he's an ex-Ministry of Defence expert with a compelling dossier of evidence *MoD expert has worked with the two closest witnesses - both servicemen - of the unexplained phenomenon in 1980 *One recalls seeing a metal craft that could travel at 'impossible' speed *Radiation levels in the area were measured at well above the norm *The two witnesses wrote logs about the incident which they claim were later disappeared as part of a cover-up *Staff Sergeant Jim Penniston touched the craft and claims to have 'downloaded' a message from the future in binary code *The 'ship' was seen on three consecutive nights, including by the officer who was second-in-command of the baseBy Tony Rennell Published: 18 April 2014 Since the incident in 1980, Rendlesham Forest has become a site of endless speculation for UFO chasers Something eerie stirred in the Suffolk forest. Bright lights were flashing red, blue, white and yellow, piercing the darkness just beyond the perimeter of the U.S. Air Force base. Airman John Burroughs, on patrol in the early hours, went to investigate, the hairs on his arms standing on end with the static electricity that suddenly filled the air, his radio mysteriously malfunctioning. Ahead, a small clearing among the trees shone as bright as day . . . And so began a mystery that has lasted a third of a century, the truth of what took place remaining as elusive now as it was on that Boxing Day in 1980. Did an alien space ship land, as the world’s UFO-hunters, ET-watchers and X-Files fans have always been desperate to believe? Or, this being a strategic base for American front-line fighter planes, was there an accident involving some clandestine Cold War super-weapon, ruthlessly covered up by the military? Or was that strange glow just a trick of light and atmospherics from the beam of a lighthouse on the East Coast a few miles away? Or a case of mass hysteria, perhaps? Or just a Christmas hoax by bored American servicemen a long way from home? Flights of fancy run wild in any direction you want when it comes to what history has dubbed the Rendlesham Forest Incident — and has done since 1983 when the News Of The World revealed the mysterious happenings in a front-page story headlined ‘UFO lands in Suffolk — and it’s official’ and quoted a top-secret report from one of the base commanders as its source. Official denials and obfuscation followed. ‘Fabrication,’ screamed the Ministry of Defence. ‘Nothing of defence interest in the alleged sightings. No question of any contact with “alien beings”.’ A local forester put forward the lighthouse theory, which was latched onto by other newspapers eager to rubbish a rival’s scoop. And so the whole affair descended into a chaos of claim and counter-claim — Close Encounter fanatics on one side, sceptics on the other, and the twain never likely to meet. Even Lt. Col. Charles Halt, the second-in-command at the American airforce base, admitted to seeing the unexplained craft +5 Even Lt. Col. Charles Halt, the second-in-command at the American airforce base, admitted to seeing the unexplained craft But now a new book tries to make a sober, sensation-free assessment of the evidence and trace a path through the undergrowth of intrigue, speculation and downright lies that bedevil this touchiest of subjects. Author, Nick Pope, has credentials — he was for three years in the Nineties the civil servant in charge of a Ministry of Defence unit investigating ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomena’, its preferred term for UFOs. He learned to respect the unexplained and not dismiss it out of hand. He collaborated with two of the closest witnesses to what happened at Rendlesham — Airman Burroughs and his immediate superior in 1980, Staff Sergeant Jim Penniston. Both are retired from the military but still troubled by what they experienced. Their memories of the scene in the forest are different. In that clearing suddenly bursting with a strange light, Burroughs was engulfed in a beam and stood motionless. Afterwards, he could remember nothing. But Penniston says he made out a small triangular metallic craft 10ft high, either hovering above the ground or resting on tripod-like legs. It had a bank of blue lights on one side and a bright white light on top. He took photographs (which were fogged when developed) and sketched the craft in his notebook before stepping into what he calls ‘the bubble field’ — an area of stillness and silence immediately around it where time seemed to stop. His heart was pounding with fear, he says, but he stretched his hand forward to touch its smooth surface. His fingers skimmed across several rows of strange symbols and hieroglyphics etched in the metal — ‘like nothing I have ever seen before, no aircraft marking, or no writing that I can identify’. He was transfixed. After a while, he claims, he pulled his hand away, stood back and watched in amazement as the craft slowly lifted off the ground, manoeuvred slowly up through the trees and then accelerated away in an instant into the night sky. In his notebook, he recorded the speed as simply ‘impossible’. Meanwhile, on the ground he and Burroughs — now brought to his senses — found a triangle of indentations where the craft had stood. Around them, branches were snapped off trees it had passed when landing and taking off. Later, men with Geiger counters picked up radioactive readings way above the norm. CONTINUE READING: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2608082/Why-I-believe-aliens-landed-Suffolk-forest-No-Nick-Pope-isnt-UFO-fantasist-hes-ex-Ministry-Defence-expert-compelling-dossier-evidence.html
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Post by auntym on May 1, 2014 14:54:54 GMT -6
ufodigest.com/article/hy-brasil-0501?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ufodigest%2FrLZd+%28UFO+and+Paranormal+News%29May 01, 2014 THE RENDLESHAM CODEBy Nick Pope Last month, after two years of hard work, “Encounter in Rendlesham Forest” was published. Co-written with the two ex-US Air Force witnesses at the heart of the Rendlesham Forest incident, John Burroughs and Jim Penniston, this new book tells the story of the UFO encounter that is increasingly being seen as bigger and more compelling than Roswell, and is often now regarded as ufology’s ‘flagship case’, not just by ufologists, but by TV networks and production companies, who have featured the case in at least half a dozen new documentaries in the last year, with more in the pipeline. Now that our book has been published, I can finally reveal a few facts that could not have been disclosed previously. The first is that this is the only UFO book ever to have required security clearance from both the American and the British governments. This was because of my previous service with the Ministry of Defence, and the fact that John Burroughs and Jim Penniston both served with the United States Air Force. While all three of us have now left government/military service, our respective security oaths bind us for life. This, together with the extreme sensitivity of some of the information that we wanted to include, made this a very difficult book to write. The marketing and publicity plan for the book had to be kept secret too, and the big news is that in the UK, the book was serialized by the Daily Mail. The Daily Mail is the UK’s second best-selling national daily newspaper, and needless to say, it’s extremely rare for the mainstream media to highlight a UFO book in this way, so that the story reaches literally millions of people. The deal – skillfully negotiated by the Andrew Lownie Literary Agency – propelled the book to number 35 in Amazon’s UK book chart. Most UFO books never break out of the paranormal niche and onto the main bestseller list in this way. In the US, I was interviewed on The Alan Colmes Show on Fox News Radio, and wrote a tie-in feature on US government UFO investigation for the prestigious St. Martin’s Press history blog/newsletter, “The History Reader”. As I write, there’s more mainstream media coverage in the pipeline, both in the US and the UK. The most difficult aspect of the book is the so-called binary code message. This relates to the sequence of ones and zeroes that Jim Penniston believes he received as a “telepathic download” when he touched the side of the UFO. He wrote them down in his police notebook later, at home, under what he believes to have been some sort of compulsion. The “Rendlesham Code”, as it’s being called, has rapidly become the most controversial story in ufology today. Is it really, as some believe, a message from extraterrestrials, or from humanity’s far future? Or is it something implanted into Jim’s memory by a combination of the drugs and hypnosis that we now know were used on at least five of the main witnesses as part of the post-incident interrogations administered while some of the personnel involved were still in shock? The debate is ongoing. Many people have attempted to translate the Rendlesham Code. The best-known suggestion so far is “Exploration of humanity. Continuous for planetary advance. Eyes of your eyes. Origin year 8100”. Also included is a list of geographical co-ordinates which seem to match up with a number of mysterious and ancient sites such as the Great Pyramid in Egypt and the Nazca Lines in Peru. Another co-ordinate corresponds with the fabled location of the ‘lost continent’ of Hy-Brasil, a supposed sunken island in the Atlantic, off the West coast of Ireland, sometimes dubbed the “Celtic Atlantis”. CONTINUE READING: ufodigest.com/article/hy-brasil-0501?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ufodigest%2FrLZd+%28UFO+and+Paranormal+News%29
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Post by auntym on May 19, 2014 11:34:49 GMT -6
www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/weird-wacky/rendlesham_ministry_of_defence_officer_reveals_all_about_ufo_claims_1_3602227Rendlesham: Ministry of Defence officer reveals all about UFO claimsby Tom Potter Saturday, May 17, 2014 Never mind ‘Britain’s Roswell’, the mystery that unfolded in a forest clearing near the Suffolk coast in late December 1980 has become the most significant UFO case in history, according to a former government investigator. Jim Penniston's police notebook sketch Nick Pope spent three years as the Ministry of Defence’s UFO desk officer between 1991 and 1994. Since then, one series of events has remained for him a constant source of intrigue, resulting in the publication of a new book Encounter in Rendlesham Forest - written with US airmen John Burroughs and Jim Penniston. Now an author and UFO commentator, Mr Pope contends that what the two servicemen witnessed at the East Gate of RAF Woodbridge was a controlled landing and take-off, “not just lights in the sky”. He also ridicules popular claims that the apparition was caused by the glow of Orfordness Lighthouse, and disagrees with speculation of a nuclear mishap which was covered up. Despite a classified UK intelligence study revealing “several observers were probably exposed to UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) radiation”, Mr Pope says the US government will not acknowledge that the incident occurred. Now based in California, he said: “When I joined the MoD’s UFO project, it soon became clear that Rendlesham was the single case that was still generating not just public interest, but also interest from the media, and indeed Parliament. “I went through all the theories in great detail. I have no agenda in writing this book, except for trying to help John (Burroughs) and Jim (Penniston) unlock their medical records, which they have faced trouble obtaining. These two main witnesses have health issues which they attribute to radiation from the UFO. “If British intelligence suggest they were irradiated, maybe there is something to say what kind of radiation. “We have determined that John and Jim’s military medical records are locked in a closed section of the Department of Veterans Affairs - somewhere normally reserved for the records of intelligence agents. “I think Jim and John have been vindicated by some of the things we have turned up. They feel very bruised by how they have been treated over the years.” Mr Pope thinks that the key to solving the mystery may lie in what he believes was vital evidence removed from the airbase and flown to Germany by a USAF general. The material in the book is largely based on government documents obtained under the US Freedom of Information Act, or released as part of the UK government’s declassification of UFO files. But Mr Pope says that some UK intelligence files relating to the incident were “inadvertently destroyed”, but added: “Maybe there is someone out there with a smoking gun and maybe it will turn up. “The book does not conclude it was extra terrestrial or that it was time travellers. We drew no definitive conclusion. It would have been dishonest to push our own theory. Previous authors had an answer before they had an investigation. We had no such approach. “However, we are able to eliminate theories like the lighthouse or a nuclear accident cover story CONTINUE READING: www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/weird-wacky/rendlesham_ministry_of_defence_officer_reveals_all_about_ufo_claims_1_3602227
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Post by auntym on Sept 20, 2014 14:48:10 GMT -6
www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-29280298 20 September 2014
Rendlesham UFO incident: Sculpture to be installed at forest siteThe UFO model has been built using galvanised steel and painted black A 'UFO' has been built to mark the spot where an alleged landing took place in one of the UK's biggest UFO mysteries. In December 1980, there were reports of phenomena in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk near a United States Air Force base. The Forestry Commission has created a metal interpretation of a UFO to add to its trail which commemorates the alleged sightings. The commission said the sculpture was "impartial" and did not seek to answer the mystery. The 'Rendlesham Incident' took place over three nights starting in the early hours of 26 December 1980. Two US servicemen claimed to have seen lights outside the perimeter fence at RAF Woodbridge. Since then, many books and internet sites have been filled with conflicting theories about whether it was an alien visitation, a military aircraft, the beam from Orfordness Lighthouse or natural phenomena. The Forestry Commission opened a UFO Trail in 2005 and placed three logs in a clearing where witnesses claimed a craft had landed and disappeared. The new UFO will be placed in the same clearing.
CONTINUE READING: www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-29280298
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Post by MDaisy on Oct 1, 2014 21:37:24 GMT -6
To me this is one of the most significant UFO events as trained witnesses observed something. The documentation is excellent too.
It took courage to get close to the UFO and I don't if I would have done that.
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Post by auntym on Oct 23, 2014 12:49:26 GMT -6
www.itv.com/news/anglia/2014-10-22/new-film-about-the-infamous-ufo-mystery-in-rendlesham-forest/ ITV Report 22 October 2014 at 5:11pm New film about the infamous UFO mystery in Rendlesham ForestSince the night of 26th December 1980 Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk is synonymous with strange lights in the sky and unexplained alien activity. Numerous USAF personnel claim to have seen extra terrestrial aircraft and mysterious lights at East Gate in the forest, close to the USAF bases Woodbridge and Bentwaters. And tonight a film, based on the events of three days in December, premieres at the Colchester Film Festival. Written and directed by Daniel Simpson (Spiderhole, H) it tells the story of three UFO investigators plunging deep into Rendlesham Forest over three days. Daniel spent nearly four years filming on handheld cameras and created the special effects himself. He says the experience of talking to eye witnesses from the events of 1980 has made him change his opinion. "I've looked into it endlessly and I've looked into the faces and eyes of people telling the story and i just have to believe them, that's what you have to go on. I believe something happened that we will never know what it was, but I believe people do know" – Daniel Simpson, Director The film, entitled 'Rendlesham UFO Incident', will be on general release in the UK in February 2015. It'll be released in America and Japan later in 2014 under the title 'Hangar 10' WATCH VIDEO: www.itv.com/news/anglia/2014-10-22/new-film-about-the-infamous-ufo-mystery-in-rendlesham-forest/
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Post by auntym on Oct 30, 2014 11:39:05 GMT -6
BBC Reporting on The Rendlesham UFO Incident
OCTOBER 22 2014
Published on Oct 29, 2014
This is the BBC Look East clip that is no longer available regarding the premiere of the 'The Rendlesham UFO Incident', a low budget film set 33 years after the original incident.
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Post by auntym on Nov 2, 2014 11:08:11 GMT -6
ufodigest.com/article/ufos-smoking-1101 UFOS - A SMOKING GUN AT LAST?By Nick Pope November 1, 2014 In last’s month’s column I revealed that although the June 2013 release of MoD UFO files was supposedly the end of a five-year programme to declassify and release the entire archive, an additional 18 UFO files have now been located and will be made public in 2015. A UK national daily newspaper, the Daily Star, broke this story in September, but the full story can now be told for the first time. It links the release of these files to the highly-classified intelligence study on UFOs, codenamed Project Condign, and also links it to the Rendlesham Forest incident. The story began with the release of Project Condign’s final report, back in May 2006. Bear in mind that unlike the various MJ-12 documents, the provenance of this report isn’t disputed – you can even read it on the UK government’s website. The original document was classified Secret UK Eyes Only and one intriguing passage read as follows: “The well-reported Rendlesham Forest/Bentwaters event is an example where it might be postulated that several observers were probably exposed to UAP radiation for longer than normal UAP sighting periods.” UAP is an abbreviation for Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon, a term that some of us at the MoD preferred over UFO, but irrespective of the terminology, it was surprising that the media and the UFO community failed to pick up on this bombshell. One person to whom this part of the document was of great interest was John Burroughs. He and his colleague Jim Penniston were the two United States Air Force witnesses who got closest to the unidentified craft that landed in Rendlesham Forest in December 1980. Burroughs and Penniston have both had health issues which they attribute to their experience, and had been seeking access to their military medical records so they could obtain the best possible diagnosis and treatment. As revealed in a previous column, it transpired that these documents were held in a little-known classified records section of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Pat Frascogna, a crusading attorney who has done extensive pro-bono work on John and Jim’s behalf, submitted numerous Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to try to move things forward. The responses were unhelpful to say the least. The CIA would neither confirm nor deny that they had any relevant records, while the State Department suggested that Frascogna contact the Air Force! Despite these responses, with a possible federal lawsuit on the horizon, the explosive quotation from Project Condign looks as if it might be the ‘smoking gun’ needed to blow things wide open. Understandably, John Burroughs wanted to know more. After all, an assessment in a highly-classified intelligence study doesn’t just come from out of the blue. It’s based on analysis of data. So Burroughs started to make FOIA requests not, as Pat Frascogna had done, to US government agencies, but to the UK’s Ministry of Defence. He challenged the decisions that led to the blacking out of parts of Project Condign’s final report, where some information is still being withheld under FOIA exemptions that cover areas such as defence, national security and intelligence. Burroughs also went after some of the supporting documentation that he suspected was out there. Where were the databases, the working papers, the background briefs, the records of meetings, the rough drafts and the handwritten notes that are as much a part of the story as the final report? CONTINUE READING: ufodigest.com/article/ufos-smoking-1101
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Post by auntym on Feb 28, 2015 15:19:42 GMT -6
Nick Pope @nickpopemod John Burroughs wins International UFO Congress Researcher of the Year Award: IUFOC UFO Researcher of the Year 2015: John BurroughsPublished on Feb 26, 2015 Each year at the International UFO Congress Open Minds presents UFO researcher awards. This year the researcher of the year winner was a UFO witness, John Burroughs. Watch the video to find out about Burroughs important research, and to see his acceptance speech.
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Post by swamprat on Feb 28, 2015 21:19:58 GMT -6
Did VA just confirm UFO dangers?By Billy Cox, Herald-Tribune February 27, 2015
Given the self-inflicted wounds created by the Department of Veterans Affairs, bureauland must feel like a bunker these days, in Washington as well as its regional offices across the U.S. A waiting-list death scandal, more than 900 personnel firings, the resignation of director Eric Shinseki, whistleblower retaliation — on and on it goes, drama without end.
Well, depending on if/how the MSM responds, VA officials might want to tug those chin straps a little tighter. That’s because, last Sunday, Mississippi attorney Pat Frascogna issued a press release titled “U.S. Government’s De Facto Acknowledgement of the Existence of UFOs.” (More details at Earthfiles.com) At its core was the resolution of a complicated -- yeah, they're all complicated -- service-connected disability dispute involving Air Force veteran and Arizona resident John Burroughs. Burroughs was a key witness to the so-called Bentwaters/Rendlesham Forest UFO incident of 1980. In 2013, at the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure at the National Press Club, Burroughs and retired USAF colleague Jim Penniston recounted their inability to acquire their military medical records from more than 30 years ago.
During efforts to link his heart damage to UFO radiation exposure while responding to a reported security breach on the perimeter of the British-based American air base, Burroughs encountered a roadblock on the paper trail. Although he joined the USAF in 1979, the VA said the earliest service records it could locate dated only as far back as 1982. Burroughs went through two Arizona Senators’ offices — Jon Kyle and John McCain — before the political wheels were able to recover his initial discharge papers, which placed him exactly where he said he was in December 1980. But his medical records are still out there, somewhere.
Nevertheless, bottom line, last month, the VA informed Burroughs it was awarding him a full disability for his heart condition, which required life-saving surgery in 2013. The agency based its decision on 21 bulleted items. Among them was “Service Treatment Records, from February 1979 to April 1988,” the earliest of which Burroughs -- again -- has never been able to examine for himself. But this listed factor is the real eye-popper: “Duplicate documents regarding the Rendlesham Forest Incident, received May 2, 2014.”
“Now, after decades of persistence,” Frascogna announced in his press release, “the U.S. Government has finally acknowledged that John Burroughs suffered adverse health effects in the Rendlesham Forest and, therefore, has recognized the link between his health problems and the UFO he encountered.”
De Void’s attempt to get a VA response has yet to bear fruit, as they say. But the “duplicate documents” referenced in the Veterans Affairs verdict is a formerly classified British Defence Intelligence Staff assessment of UFOs from 1997-2000. The Brits referred to those cases by the less incendiary acronym UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena). Known as Project Condign and released to the media in 2006, the study argued UFOs/UAP weren’t intelligently controlled vehicles but were, instead, the product of mysterious meteorological forces like plasmas that science can't explain.
In attempting to account for the unquestionably bizarre and un-weather-like eyewitness reports across the board, Condign produced a section called “Potential Mental Effects on Humans” suggesting how UAP electrical fields might scramble the brain’s temporal lobe, manifesting into hallucinations or episodes of “missing time.” For Burroughs, the key passage is this:
“The well-reported Rendlesham Forest/Bentwaters event is an example where it might be postulated that several observers were probably exposed to UAP radiation for longer than normal UAP sighting periods. There may be other cases which remain unreported. It is clear that the recipients of these effects are not aware that their behaviour/perception of what they are observing is being modified.”
Weather capable of emitting enough acute radiation to cause heart damage. Go figure. Anyhow, how big a deal is this? A statement from the VA’s public affairs desk in Washington says privacy laws prohibit the agency from discussing individual cases. It adds, "(The) VA granting service connection should in no way infer anything beyond the establishment/existence of these requirements/factors." And by “requirements/factors,” it means "medical evidence providing a connection between the current disability and the service."
So here we are. Burroughs is still trying to get his hands on those classified medical records. If the media follows precedent on its coverage of The Great Taboo, this shouldn’t become an issue for the VA. And that ought to be a relief, because those guys have more than enough fires to put out already.
devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/15233/did-va-just-confirm-ufo-dangers/
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Post by auntym on Mar 11, 2015 13:51:44 GMT -6
www.eadt.co.uk/news/medical_payout_for_ufo_mystery_airman_following_rendlesham_forest_encounter_1_3985521 Medical payout for UFO mystery airman following Rendlesham Forest encounterBritain’s most famous UFO mystery has taken a new twist after a witness won compensation for illnesses he blames on exposure to radiation from the event. 10 March 2015 by Tom Potter US airman John Burroughs secured the settlement after years of trying to prove his ill-health was caused by the encounter in Rendlesham Forest. A former Ministry of Defence (MoD) official said the payout confirms what he saw was real and had caused him physical harm. Mr Burroughs put forward a declassified report as evidence he had been injured during the event on Boxing Day 1980. He said disability coverage from the US Veteran’s Association offered “some closure”, but that he now wanted unrestricted access to his full medical records. “Every step along the way people have said it’s not true. Some people will always say that. “I don’t know if I have the full answer, but no one thought I’d get this far,” said the ex-servicemen. Along with Jim Penniston, he was the first to investigate mysterious lights near the East Gate of RAF Woodbridge. Theories included the glow of Orfordness Lighthouse, an elaborate hoax and a secret classified aircraft. Lawyer Pat Frascogna, who represented the retired technical sergeant, said: “This excludes the bogus explanations put out there over the years. I cannot underscore what a major development this is. We’re more curious now than ever. “We were denied access to records, mainly dating back to 1979, which we believe would have shown John had no health problems when he entered the air force, but that he developed heart problems and other ailments that arose from the incident.” In fighting his case, Mr Burroughs used a declassified study code-named Project Condign, in which Rendlesham is described as an event where it “might be postulated that several observers were probably exposed to Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) radiation.” CONTINUE READING: www.eadt.co.uk/news/medical_payout_for_ufo_mystery_airman_following_rendlesham_forest_encounter_1_3985521
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