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Introduction
RAF Woodbridge was abandoned by the United States Air Force in 1992, the base was no longer needed, as was RAF Bentwaters. RAF Bentwaters was very close to RAF Woodbridge, so they were usually thought of as a single base complex. Some people called them the 'sisters bases' or 'twin bases' because of this. The USAF's time at the bases was eventful, there were various aircraft accidents and many of the latest aircraft had visited the bases (for example, the highly classified Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird) and apparently RAF Bentwaters housed nuclear weapons.
If you have ever been to this area of Suffolk, you may have heard about the UFO stories. Many of the stories you may hear could have been been exaggerated as they have been re-told, but a very real case lies behind this shroud of mystery. Some locals think the UFO story is akin to a ghost tale - nothing more than folklore, others are interested but see the events as being of little importance, some believe that the UFO story was created to act as a distraction from something dangerous, perhaps a nuclear weapon accident - there had been a near miss only a few decades earlier. On the other hand, some people believe that the UFOs seen were from another world!
Some people, myself included, think this area of Suffolk has a very strange feel to it. Perhaps, it is just the winding country roads or the old-looking thatched houses which attach a rather mystical atmosphere to the area - who knows? Although the UASF personnel at RAF Bentwaters were of as much importance to the Rendlesham Forest Incident as the men from RAF Woodbridge, the event actually began and ended in Rendlesham Forest, which is only metres from RAF Woodbridge's back perimeter fence.
Rendlesham Forest was grown in the 1940s, to act as a protective shield for the bases. The forest was damaged by the "Great Storm" of 1987 but since then all of the trees have been replanted and the forest looks normal, once again. Although it has changed significantly since the Rendlesham Forest Incident, which occurred over 26 years ago.
It was some time after midnight on the 25 December 1980. Christmas day was just ending, there was only a skeleton of staff on duty at the two bases and no aircraft were in the sky.
Airman First Class (A1C) John Burroughs - who was only 19 at the time - was stationed at RAF Woodbridge's back gate, commonly known as the East Gate. He was with Staff Sergeant (SSgt) Bud Steffens (then known as Bud Parker).
It was John Burroughs who first noticed the strange lights. They just appeared, hovering at about tree-top level, they seemed to be originating from the edge of Rendlesham Forest. Thinking that they had never seen lights like this before during their patrols, Burroughs and Steffens decided to take a closer look, especially as the lights seemed to be rather close to the base. John Burroughs describes the lights, "there were strange lights out in the forest. To me, it almost looked like Christmas lights at first, a Christmas display. At that point we looked at each other and we decided that we'd better go out and take a closer look because we weren't sure what we were dealing with. What we were looking at wasn't real ." They left RAF Woodbridge through the Back gate ("East Gate") of RAF Woodbridge in their patrol vehicle. As they came along the long road past East Gate, leading to the edge of Rendlesham Forest, it became apparent to them that the lights were quite close, closer than they had originally suspected.
The lights reminded Burroughs of a Christmas lights display, they were flickering different colours, red; yellow and green. They drove a bit closer, as they did this a large white light (which appeared to be another part of the main object) moved along the forest, as if mirroring their movement. It seemed closer than ever. This startled them. Burroughs and Steffens returned quickly to the East Gate, they were going to ask for assistance.
When they returned, John Burroughs rang through to Sergeant McCabe, Burroughs used the guard shack's landline - it was safer this way, their conversation could not be intercepted by hand-held receivers. Sgt. Mccabe was on the other end of the line. Burroughs was having trouble explaining what they had just seen to him, and McCabe was having trouble believing it, "he had a lot of trouble believing what I was telling him."
McCabe asked to speak to Bud Steffens, he needed confirmation, Steffens confirmed everything that Burroughs had said, adding that the lights were still visible. McCabe decided the best thing to do would be to alert the bases Central Security Control - it sounded rather like a plane had crashed into the nearby forest. Staff Sergeant (SSgt), James W. Penniston was the on duty flight chief at RAF Woodbridge. He was eating a sandwich when he received a call from Sergeant John Coffey, who had spoken to Sgt. Mccabe.
Coffey refused to explain what was happening, he insisted that the men who were already at East Gate would explain the situation instead. "I received a call from the Control Centre to go on down to the east gate and contact John Burroughs. About 12:02 am - I remember that distinctly - I was dispatched to the East Gate, which was sometimes referred to as the back gate at Woodbridge. I asked them what was the nature of the problem down there and they said that they'd rather not tell me, they'd rather have me go down there and talk to the patrol man on the scene.", recalls Penniston.
Jim Penniston was driven to the East Gate by Edward Cabansag (pronounced Cavansac). On arriving at East Gate, John Burroughs and Bud Steffens explained to Jim Penniston what they had seen. "The first thing that came to mind was an aircraft crash. I've had at least 30 or 40 crashes that I had been to at that point in time and that's definitely what I thought it was." Jim Penniston could identify almost any type of aircraft which was around at the time, thinking logically it was really the only thing which could have crashed into the forest. Bud Steffens quickly pointed out, 'It didn't crash, it landed." It was also Christmas time, so there was no scheduled flying - it didn't make sense, what could have landed in the forest?
"Master Sgt. Chandler contacted the shift commander's office, and within a minute or so I got the go-ahead to proceed off base with two other security policemen. We were told to leave our weapons behind, so as to not violate the Status Forces Agreement with the British. I and Airman First Class John Burroughs and Ed Cabansag, also an Airman First Class, got into our Jeep and proceeded out the East Gate, then down a logging road adjacent to the perimeter", recalls Penniston.
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Burroughs, Penniston and Cabansag began their way into the forest by vehicle to investigate the strange lights, Steffens refused to enter the forest, he was scared. According to Edward Cabansag, they handed their weapons over to MSgt Chandler, although there is a possibility that they still had their side arms with them. They drove down the road which Burroughs and Steffens had been down a while earlier, took a right and then a left. They were now on logging road/route 12 (recently renamed to route 10). The road was full of holes and was covered in stones, it soon became too difficult for their vehicle to handle, Penniston affirms this, "the road was pretty hard [too] because everything was frozen."
They parked their truck, and instructed Edward Cabansag to stay at the tree line with the vehicle and to act as another relay for the radio communication. John Burroughs stepped out of the vehicle. There were animals running around everywhere, and things just didn't seem right. Burroughs recalls what happened next, "we started on foot towards those lights. At the same time we could hear the animals were getting very upset. At that point we got a radio transmission, they had just got in contact with Heathrow [Airport]. An object had been seen over our base and had disappeared on radar." Jim Penniston confirms the radar related message which they received from CSC, "they [CSC > John Coffey] notified me that they were tracking an unidentified bogey about 15 minutes ago and they confirmed it with contact with eastern radar and Heathrow in London and the approximate location was about 5 miles off base when they lost contact with it."
As Burroughs and Penniston moved further into the forest, they began to notice other strange things; Jim Penniston realized that a downed aircraft would be leaking gallons of fuel, it would probably burning as well but there was no smell of fuel. The cluster of lights was also too concentrated, if an aircraft had crashed there would be burning fragments all over the forest floor and in the trees. Burroughs and Penniston soon realized that the hair on their arms and the back of their necks was standing on end. There seemed to be a field of static electricity all around them. Penniston was walking ahead, leaving Burroughs slightly behind. As they noticed the static, they lost contact with CSC, Cabansag and all the others - was the static field interfering with their radios?
They had both walked quite a distance now, and were in the centre of the forest. As they moved closer they noticed a small, shiny object sitting within a clearing. It had a bank of blue lights on it and it was just sitting there, it was completely stationary. "It was unbelievable...we got pretty close to the object, we knew it had the feet on he ground from there", says Burroughs. Jim Penniston managed to get really close to the landed object, "I got to within 10 feet of the craft and the clearing where it sat. I estimated it to be about three meters tall and about three meters wide at the base." Penniston moved closer, he was right next to the object now, he was able to see exactly what it looked like." The air was filled with electricity - like static. You could feel it on your skin as you approached the object. There was also a sense of slowness, like time itself was an effort", said Penniston. It soon became difficult to walk and move, rather like they were wading through treacle. Everything seemed to be slowing down. "It was like a weird feeling, like everything seemed slower than you were actually doing and stuff", said Burroughs.
Edward Cabansag, who was back at the tree line, could see something unusual in the forest too, "It was cone-shaped, egg shaped, with lights running around its belt from left to right. They were blue, white and red lights, flashing, sometimes rapid, sometimes slow. Then we saw flakes of metal coming from it...It wasn't the lighthouse.
Jim Penniston was standing right next to the landed object, "no landing gear was apparent, but it seemed like it was on fixed legs. I walked around the craft, and finally, I walked right up to the craft. I noticed the fabric of the shell was like a smooth, opaque, black glass. The bluish lights went from black to grey to blue. I was pretty much confused at that point. I kept trying to put this in some kind of frame of reference, trying to find some logical explanation as to what this was and what was going on. It was dead silent. No animals were even making noise anymore. The nearer we got to that thing the more uneasy I felt...it was as if I was moving in slow motion."
Jim Penniston had his notebook and camera with him, so he began to take notes about the object which was sitting in front of him. Penniston read an extract from his notepad on the Sci-Fi Channel's documentary about Rendlesham, "... triangular in shape. The top portion is producing mainly white light, which encompasses most of the upper section of the craft. A small amount of white light peers out the bottom. At the left side centre is a bluish light, and on the other side, red. The lights seem to be moulded as part of the exterior of the structure, smooth, slowly fading into the rest of the outside of the structure, gradually moulding into the fabric of the craft'. "As I was taking notes, I also memorized what was in front of me for what seemed like hours, but was in fact only minutes. Finally, I unleashed my camera-case cover and brought the camera up to focus. I began snapping photo after photo. [Soon] I had already taken all 36 pictures on my roll of film. On the smooth exterior shell there was writing of some kind, but I couldn't quite distinguish it, so I moved up to it. It was three-inch lettering, rather symbols that stretched for the length of two feet, maybe a little more."
Jim Penniston then proceeded to touch the landed object, he was only able to for a short time. "I touched the symbols, and I could feel the shapes as if they were inscribed or etched or engraved, like a diamond cut on glass." Soon after he touched the symbols, the white light on the object instantly grew brighter. Jim Penniston and John Burroughs jumped backwards in defence, they threw themselves onto the floor for cover. "At that point, I backed away from the craft, because the light was starting to get brighter. Still, there was no sound." Said Penniston. "We all hit the ground...", said Burroughs rather literally. The white light flooding out from the top of the unknown object was almost blinding. "The craft moved up off the ground, about three feet, still with absolutely no sound. It started to move slowly, weaving back through the trees at a very slow pace, maybe a half a foot per second. It took about a couple of minutes for it to manoeuvre itself back to a distance of about 100 to 150 feet, then it rose up just over the trees, about 200 feet high. There was a momentary pause and then literally with the blink of an eye it was gone. All with no sound. That still boggles my mind", stated Penniston.
The object had departed. Both Burroughs and Penniston were left dazed and confused. The UFO seemed to have some kind of static field which would disrupt radio transmissions and confuse the men nearby. "All of a sudden, when the object was gone, everything was like normal again, by normal, I mean everything seemed real around you...you're looking around and there at a distance you see the lighthouse beacon, you know, the sky looks the same, everything around you seems the same. But when all this was going on...it was different." " When it was happening, everything seemed to go slower. We seemed to be in ... I wouldn't say a time warp, but everything appeared to be happening slower to us, and everything felt different. When it disappeared, everything was normal again. The perception, the ground, the air and the stars were different", explains Burroughs.
John Burroughs noticed another light in the distance, they walked for about 300 yards, before realizing that they had been out in the forest for too long and should return to the base. "We thought it had left, but then both Airman Burroughs and I saw the same array of colored lights maybe a half mile away. So we pursued it, trying to follow its course as best we could on foot. We only got about 300 yards into the woods before we turned around", recalled Jim Penniston.
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As they walked back to the logging road, Burroughs noticed three indentations in the forest floor. They were in the same place that the object was first sighted, they assumed that it had been sitting on the floor, "we found three of them, all triangular in shape, each about three meters apart." Noting the location of the three indentations, the two men continued on their way back to the base. They found Cabansag, and went back to the base. After returning to the base, they were instructed to report to the shift commander's office. Jim Penniston and John Burroughs were told it was best if they kept quiet about what they had just seen, "he basically said: you saw something, Heathrow tower confirms you saw something. Now you should go out and look for some physical proof of what happened", said Burroughs.
Penniston and Burroughs went back into the forest, to check for any evidence which would support their story. Burroughs was hoping that there would be nothing out there, in the forest, perhaps then he could dismiss the whole incident, "I was hoping that when I got out there, that basically I would see nothing - there would be no tell-tale evidence that something possibly happened. That would make it easier for me, because if there's nothing proving that something happened to me, you can kind of just check it off. [But] When you get out there, you find damage to the trees, depressions in the ground and stuff - that makes it even more unexplainable."
Penniston and Burroughs found what appeared to be scorch marks on the trees, along with branch damage and the three indentations which they had found earlier. This is what they had been looking for, so they decided to leave the forest.
Jim Penniston made his way to a friend's house near Ipswich, who he knew would have the necessary ingredients to make plaster casts. Penniston collected the plaster, and made his way back to the forest - he intended to take plaster casts of the three indentations. After about 40 minutes, he had found the three landing marks and had successfully made a plaster cast of each and every one, they were all identical, "I had to have tangible, solid evidence for myself", explains Penniston. At 10:30AM, only 8-10 hours after the incident, RAF Bentwaters had called the Suffolk Constabulary HQ to alert them that a possible landing site had been found which was related. As Jim Penniston was walking back to his vehicle after making the plaster casts, he bumped into the Suffolk Police who were with John Burroughs.
Penniston explained his involvement along with Burroughs. Although, according to Penniston, the Police officer refused to write any information relating to a UFO incident in his logger - he wrote that there was a sighting of 'strange lights' which could have been from the nearby lighthouse and that the landing marks looked like 'rabbit scratchings'. Penniston was worried about this, he had explained to the officer that he had seen an actual craft and pointed out that the three indentations were identical and all the same distance apart - the PC would not listen, "I asked him why and he said, 'because he's not going to put anything other than that in his report'. We found that just totally absurd. The ground was frozen and it was just impossible for that to happen".
Soon after the incident, Jim Penniston asked Lt. Col. Halt if he could be transferred to another base, he seemed shaken after the event. John Burroughs had been affected by the earlier UFO sighting too, he stayed out in the forest for days waiting for the UFO to return. Charles Halt recalls sending out blankets and food to Burroughs, but he didn't accept them.
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The witness statements
After the initial UFO incident on the 25/26 December 1980, all the witnesses were asked to either write or sign statements explaining what they witnessed. It was a standard Air Force procedure. Some of the major players in the case claim that other statements were taken, some pertaining to the 28 December, on which Halt was present. These are often called the 'real statements', although they have never surfaced.
Sceptics have since claimed that the statements prove that the lighthouse was misidentified for a UFO. I do not believe this to be so, and will explain why below.
With the witness statements often being used as the evidence to support the lighthouse theory, it is also rather ironic that the statements also backup the UFO sighting and the witnesses and these crucial lines are often ignored by 'debunkers' and sceptics.
"On one occasion Penniston relayed that he was close enough to the object to determine it was definitely a mechanical object." - Msgt. J.D Chandler.
"He eventually arrived at a 'beacon light' [lighthouse beacon], however, he stated that this was not the light or lights he had originally observed." - Msgt. J.D Chandler.
"After talking with him [Jim Penniston] face to face concerning the incident , I am convinced that he saw something out of the realm of explanation for him at the time." - Fred A. Buran.
"SSgt Penniston reported getting near the object and then all of a sudden said they had gone past it and were looking a a marker beacon that was in the same direction as the other lights. I asked him if he could have been mistaken, to which Penniston replied that had I seen the other lights I would know the difference." - Fred A. Buran.
"I would like to state at this time that SSgt Penniston is a totally reliable and mature individual. He was not overly excited, nor do I think he is subject to overreaction or misinterpretation of circumstances." - Fred A. Buran.
Here are some points worth making:
In the Air Force, only hand-written statements are taken seriously. John Burroughs' statement should be seen as important, the other ones not as much so.
John Burroughs made it clear that they did not mistake the lighthouse for a UFO on the History Channel's production, "Britain's Roswell", "there are some people that try to twist it - If you read the statements, especially mine they are clearly distinguished between what we saw at the beginning and then we did see a beacon light and we followed it. Nowhere [in my statement] does it say that I felt the beacon light was the object."
The witnesses have claimed that they kept their reports sanitized for a very good reason - they were afraid that the UFO sightings could jeopardize their career. For example at the end of John Burroughs's statement, Charles Halt wrote,
"ow he's worried that this might affect his career." Another example, on Cabansag's statement, Halt wrote that he is "convinced that this is a 'cleaned up' version of what happened". UFO researcher and author, Jenny Randles, has backed up this fact too, "right from the beginning, Burroughs and Penniston had always insisted that their statements were not the full story and were watered down."
Edward Cabansag claims he could not operate a typewriter at the time, he simply signed a statement which was given to him by Charles Halt. He did not know who had typed it, was it Colonel Halt? In an interview with Georgina Bruni, Author of "You Can't Tell The People", Cabansag said, "the only thing that I signed was for Colonel Halt. I didn't type anything out. Maybe someone else did it and asked me to sign it. Besides, I couldn't type, I had never used a typewriter before. I don't even remember what I signed. I was so nervous, I just signed it. I don't remember talking to Halt, I remember sitting in his office in fear of Halt. I was fresh from school." Jim Penniston claims to have never typed a statement in any shape or form too.
5). Georgina Bruni has come to the conclusion that the 'real' statements were given to the AFOSI (Air Force Office Of Special Investigations).
If we are to believe the statements, then it becomes apparent that the lighthouse beacon light was merely investigated and then discounted. None of the statements say that the men actually mistook the lighthouse for the UFO! With this said, I will leave you to view the raw statements below without any more opinions of my own.
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The UFOs back Sir": 27/28 December 1980
Charles I. Halt retired from the United States Air Force in June 1992, as a Colonel. He served as a base commander in Korea and Belgium. Halt's time in the Military service lasted for over 28 years. He has other impressive qualifications, having BScs in Economics and Chemistry. He also graduated from various Military colleges.
In 1980, Lt. Colonel Charles Halt was the deputy base commander of the RAF Bentwaters-Woodbridge complex. Colonel Ted Conrad was the Base Commander, but Charles Halt still had an important job; he had to know what was going on, he should have known about everything which occurred on the bases.
He came into RAF Woodbridge on the morning of 26 December, and immediately over heard people discussing UFOs. Although he didn't know what to make of it, he had heard that at three security policemen had been involved and that they had seen a UFO. He located Sergeant McCabe who was in the Police Operation Centre, who was able to provide more information, "when I walked in, the sergeant started to laugh. He told me that I wouldn't believe what had happened the night before. I said try me or something to that effect. He said three of the young security policeman had been out in the woods chasing a UFO all night."
"At first, when Sgt. McCabe informed me about this incident, he said that I wasn't going to believe him. I certainly had a hard time with what he told me next - the three officers [Penniston, Cabansag and Burroughs] had come upon a strange craft which was metallic in appearance and triangular in shape, approximately two to three metres across the bottom and roughly two metres tall [...] They also thought the lights appeared to be functional rather than decorative", said Halt.
Halt had to know what was going on, he managed to speak to Edward Cabansag. After a chat he told him to sign a typed statement. Cabansag had only recently being assigned to the base, he was still young and was terrified of Halt. So without questioning Halt's request, he quickly signed the statement. More on the statements here.
Soon rumours of 'little green men' and 'flying saucers' were circulating around the bases, a lot of people were interested and some were beginning to spend more time looking for UFOs at RAF Woodbridge's East Gate than what they were meant to be doing - this obviously annoyed Charles Halt, who was skeptical of the UFO story but still knew that the individuals involved were "no-nonsense people".
It was late on the 27 December, 1980. Charles Halt and others were at a Combat Support Group awards dinner which was being held at Woody's Bar. Meanwhile. Meanwhile something else was happening outside the back gate at RAF Woodbridge. A1C Gregory Battram was with a patrol consisting of three other men at RAF Woodbridge, near Rendlesham Forest. They spotted some unusual lights in the sky over the forest, the lights then dropped down into Rendlesham Forest. The cluster of lights looked like a fire among the trees.
"We were about halfway into the shift, I guess, when we noticed some lights in the sky that, didn't seem to follow any pattern of aircraft we'd seen",explains Battram.
The lights needed to be investigated, especially because of the UFO incident which had taken place in the same area only one day earlier. They contacted Central Security Control. After alerting the fire department, CSC gave Battram and his group permission to proceed off-base.
They parked their vehicle on the edge of the forest, and walked to where they thought the lights were coming from. There was a strange 'thrumming' sound that they supposed was originating from the strange lights in the forest. As they neared the other side of Rendlesham Forest they noticed that the nearby field was covered in a thick circular ground-fog, that's what they thought it was at first. Battram said that it was 100 feet across. "As we got in there, you could see into the clearing and see a series of lights in there surrounded by a ground fog. And when we got closer, you began to feel the hair on your arms, and back of your heard, under your hat even, stand on end. Like there was a real big static charge in the air", recalls Battram.
Battram noticed that there was a smaller and denser section to the fog in the centre which was about 30-50 feet in size, this was where the orange, red, white and blue lights were coming from. They began to get scared - they didn't know what was out there - so they decided to return to the base and report their findings. Meanwhile , Sgt. Adrian Bustinza who was at RAF Bentwaters had been alerted about another UFO sighting over at East Gate, possibly by Central Security Control. Bustinza consequently contacted his acting commander, Lt. Bruce Englund. Bruce Englund decided to make his way over to RAF Woodbridge with Adrian Bustinza to aid the investigation.
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Back in the forest, Battram was becoming scared - it was too much for them to deal with, the group decided to run. On their way back they bumped into another patrol, Battram only recognized Lt. Bruce Englund although Bustinza was there also. He told Englund what they had seen, Englund instructed the patrol to return to the base.
Englund promptly went to find Charles Halt. He burst into Woody's bar, he located Halt and the Base Commander Ted Conrad. "[Englund] came in and he was quite shaken and insisted upon speaking to myself and the base commander [Colonel Conrad] about a matter of utmost urgency. He said, "it's back" and we all looked at each other , "what's back" I said and he said, "the UFO is back!", recalls Halt.
Conrad instructed Halt to investigate the UFO sighting, in an attempt to put it to rest and finish the whole affair off. The UFO mystery was causing too much trouble and wasting too much time. "Rumours about what Jim Penniston and John Burroughs had seen were beginning to circulate out of control and I was determined to put an end to this nonsense", Halt recalled. Halt decided to gather together a small team of specialists to accompany him. He sent Englund back off to RAF Bentwaters to collect some more personnel and some light-alls. Light-alls are large trailer mounted lights, which are gas (that's petrol to us) powered. The lights stand about 5-6 feet off the ground.
He contacted the bases' Disaster Preparedness Unit and asked the on-call officer, Sgt. Monroe Nevilles (aka Greg), to go with them. Nevilles took a geiger counter/radiac meter with him, and a camera - Nevilles was a skilled photographer. Halt went to change into suitable clothes, he also picked up a handheld tape recorder, some glass sample bottles, a torch and a night-vision scope (image intensifier).
Bustinza made sure that the light-alls were refueled and were working, which they were. They also collected Sgt. Bobby Ball. He and Englund drove back to RAF Woodbridge, Bustinza had to swerve to avoid animals which were running out of the forest and were all over the road.
Halt finally arrived at the edge of Rendlesham Forest. There were base personnel running around everywhere, it was complete confusion. The light-alls which had just been bought in were not working. Halt instructed them to refuel the light alls, they were already overflowing with gas but still did not function correctly; an argument soon broke out. By all accounts it seems that light-alls were not too reliable and would occasionally malfunction, although the light-alls were functioning before they were taken to the forest and were completely filled with fuel.
"It's very unusual to have a problem with the light-all. That night, the light-alls wouldn't work, even when they swapped out and got other ones from the base. In addition, we had problems with our radios. All three frequencies we were using were intermittent and did not work properly that night", explains Halt.
Halt pressed the record button on his tape recorder, he usually used it to make short reports on people and their activities on base; the tape could then be listened to at the end of each day and the notes typed up into memos or formal letters. Halt ordered the men to get some more light-alls. Bustinza attempted to contact security control, but he seemed to be having trouble with the radio (as Halt mentioned above).
Sgt. Bustinza (radio): Sergeant Bustinza...We're all outta gas...We're at East Gate...East Gate...over. Sgt. Bustinza (Still having trouble with the radio): You don't have a light-all, gas...or anything. Duty security? Can you hear me? Sergeant...A light-all with gas...Please.
Halt was becoming impatient - the light-alls were not working and no real progress was being made. So he decided to begin their journey through Rendlesham Forest, leaving the light-alls and confusion behind. He assembled a team of men; this included Lt. Bruce Englund, Sgt. Bustinza, Sgt. Bobby Ball and Sgt. Nevilles - a noncommissioned officer who was assigned to the Disaster Preparedness Unit, he operated the geiger counter.
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The group of men made their way into the dark Rendlesham Forest, there had still been no further UFO sightings. I suspect that Halt had thought it would be best to travel to the Eastern edge of Rendlesham Forest so they could see the object that Englund had told him about earlier. As one can assume, it is not easy moving through a forest in the dark especially during a cold December night.
Soon Halt and his team stumbled across what they thought to be a landing site of some sort. Sgt. Ball recalls significant details about the way the branches had been snapped,
"it didn't take us long to find what we thought to be a landing site of some sort. The trees had branches broken off. As we looked up, we had high power flashlights with us, we could see branches, up to an inch, two inches in diameter had either been knocked completely off or had been bent downward. It was clean up to the top of the trees."
There were three indentations which all looked identical, there were also broken branches high up in the tree-tops, along with scuff marks near the lower parts of the trees. It is not really clear whether Halt had discovered another landing site or had just revisited the one which Jim Penniston found - although new information on this subject was revealed in Sci-Fi Channel's "UFO Invasion at Rendlesham". Halt led Penniston and Bryant Gumbel (presenter) to the location of the landing site, Penniston said that the landing site he had found was in the opposite direction (both were involved on different nights) because of this it seems that Halt had indeed found a new landing site.
Halt made this clear in the "UFO invasion at Rendlesham" documentary:
"[it was] obviously on different nights... two different things, or the same thing came back..."
The live tape gives us a good idea of what was happening at this point, Sgt. Nevilles was operating the geiger counter; which was an AN PDR-27F.
Lt. Colonel Halt: We are getting readings on the tree. You’re taking samples from on the side facing the suspected landing site?
Lt. Englund: Four clicks max.
Lt. Colonel Halt: Up to four. Interesting. That’s right where you’re taking the sample now.
Lt. Englund: Four
Lt. Colonel Halt: That’s the strongest point on the tree?
Sgt. Nevilles: Yes sir, and if you come to the back, there’s no clicks whatsoever.
Lt. Colonel Halt: No clicks at all, in the back
Sgt. Nevilles: Maybe one or two
Lt. Colonel Halt: It’s all on the side facing the [landing site obviously]...interesting.
This shows us that the levels of radiation were greater in the landing site than they were only a few metres away, regardless of the levels of radiation (which were not harmful) it is still important that the levels peaked in the landing site. Colonel Halt's last comment is also very important, the radiation was all on the side of the tree facing into the landing site; there was none on the back of the tree. I have been informed that 0.01 'milliroentgens' would be a neutral/normal amount of radiation.
Meanwhile, Adrian Bustinza had been sent back to RAF Woodbridge to finally sort out those light-alls. He would return to Rendlesham Forest later on during the night.
As I have already said, there were broken branches and damaged trees around the landing site; Nevilles confirms this: "It was almost as though a small object had sat down with the 3 tripods, come down on the ground. And the unique thing was, the pressure on each one of those tripods had been pressed down into the ground with the same weight." The men had not moved very far in the last few minutes, as they were examining the landing site. All of a sudden the animals on a nearby farm went into a 'frenzy'; it appears that something had disturbed or frightened them.
Halt confirms the strange noises coming from the nearby farmhouses, "At one point all the farmer's animals, the pigs, the cows, the chickens and everything were all 'acking up...Making an awful lot of noise as though they were being disturbed or frightened." What was happening?
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Halt recalls what happened soon after this, "we got the radiac instruments out, we were taking readings and while we were doing this, the police lieutenant said 'look!'.
It was a strange glowing object, it appeared to be 100-200 metres away. I couldn't explain it. It was moving behind the pine trees, zig-zagging around it kind of winked at us."
Halt later described the object as looking like an eye. It was dark red with a darker section in the middle, rather like a pupil. From the description Halt has given us, it seems that the object was constantly glowing; but was emitting bright flashes from time to time. Halt and his group did not move, they were amazed at what they were seeing infront of themselves. Halt said, "It approached us at one time, we just stood there in awe. [we] watched [it] probably for a minute or two, maybe a little more. It was eerie and quiet." It has been claimed that the Orford Ness Lighthouse, which is six miles away from Rendlesham Forest can cause strange optical effects in the fog - some claim this is what the red pulsing light was. Halt disagrees, "at this time we could see the lighthouse, it was off to the side of this object by about 30 degrees. This object was no lighthouse, it was dancing about in the forest, woods and all."
As quickly as the object had appeared, it disappeared, but not for long. The object quickly reappeared and then proceeded to move at a quicker rate out into the field, Halt and his team decided to give chase. Again, here is another important part of the tape:
Lt. Colonel Halt: Strange. One again left. Let's approach the edge of the woods at that point. Can we do without lights? Let's do it carefully, come on... OK we're looking at the thing, we're probably about 2-3 hundred yards away. It looks like an eye winking at you, it's still moving from side to side and when we put the star scope on it, it's sort of a hollow centre right, a dark centre, it's...
Lt. Englund: It's like a pupil...
Lt. Colonel Halt: It's like the pupil of an eye looking at you, winking...and the flash is so bright to the Star scope, err.... it almost burns your eye.
[Break in tape]
As they were standing at the edge of Rendlesham Forest, Halt noticed the nearby farmhouse was glowing intensely. Although it is entirely possible that this was a result of time exotic lighting display; after all it was Christmas. As they walked past the farmhouse, Halt decided it would be best not to disturb the inhabitants. "We didn't want to alarm anybody, so we left them alone." Halt also noticed a field of static electricity, he assumed, that seemed to be all over their bodies. "There was very strange feeling in the air, it made your hair bristle, sort of like static electricity. You just had a very unusual feeling, and I don't think it was all psychological [in our minds]: I think there was something physiological [physically real] about it. There was something to it, I don't know what it was."
At last, they came out of Rendlesham Forest. They were now on private property, which was a field owned by a farmer who lived nearby. The object which they had been pursuing flew out of the forest and sat in the middle of the farmers field. It was yellow and red. It appeared to be throwing off sparks; which Halt later likened to 'molten metal'. Sgt. Nevilles describes the object, "if we looked at it through the night vision goggles it looked like a large brick. The heat was coming off it. Every once in a while it would flash, throwing off sparks."
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Sgt. Bustinza claims that on his return to the forest (earlier, he had been sent back to Woodbridge) he found Halt and about 20-30 other men near this object. They had managed to get very close to it and had apparently surrounded it. Halt denies this actually happened, but later acknowledged that Bustinza was present; he could not deny that his voice was on the tape. It seems likely that if the object had stood still in the field for long enough, Halt could have approached it. That said, I am not sure about the authenticity of Bustinza's story.
Halt explains what happened while they were watching the landed object, "we're verging the fence line, the object continues to move through the trees, it proceeds a bit, goes out across the farmer's field, to the left of the farmers house and appears to be shedding molten metal, it's dripping off it. It pulsated, although it were an eye winking at you and around the edges, it appeared to have molten metal dripping off it, just like falling to the ground, but I didn't see any evidence of anything on the ground. I just couldn't believe what I was seeing, none of us could." Soon, for no obvious reason, the object just exploded and separated into a few white lights. There was no sound, just a bright flash. One of the objects began beaming pencil-thin beams of light down all over Rendlesham Forest and RAF Woodbridge. The stream of light was completely straight, the light was the same width all the way across, just like a laser beam.
Halt confirms every part of this and adds some more very important and interesting details, "the object suddenly exploded; a silent explosion... and broke into three to five white objects and rapidly disappeared. One of the lights hovered high in the sky".
"We could fairly clearly see it. It sort of danced about in the sky and it sent down beams of light. I noticed other beams of light coming down from the object, falling different places on the base. My boss was standing in his front yard at [RAF] Woodbridge and he could see the beams of light falling down, and the people in the Weapons storage area [aka WSA] and several other places on the base also reported the lights [beam lights]. They didn't seem to be harmful. [The beam] stayed on for about 5-10 seconds and just as abruptly as it came, it disappeared..."
"The objects in the sky were moving about, sharp angular movements, very high speed. I kept getting on the radio and calling the command post - I wanted to know if they were finding anything on the radar scope. One of the objects in the sky was sending down beams, beams of light, beams of energy, I'm not sure what they were. At that same time I could hear on the radio, voices talking about the beams coming down on the base".
Halt explained that he was worried about what the beams were, he was not sure if it was a weapon, a warning or some other kind of signal. Halt has mentioned, since the incident, that the object which was sending beams of light down to the ground was 'certainly under intelligent control'.
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Some researchers have claimed that the beams of light penetrated the hardened Weapons Storage Area at RAF Woodbridge, and there were reports of that occurrence. Additionally, some claim that the beams of light actually disabled some or all of the nuclear weapons stored on that base. I have not seen any evidence to support either theory however.
Sgt. Bobby Ball recalled something which Halt did not mention, that the objects appeared to be searching for something, "to me it looked like a grid search, like they were boxing off an area and looking for something. That was the thought that hit me right away and it's stayed with me over the years." Searching for what exactly? The bases' nuclear stockpile perhaps?
Halt managed to capture this amazing moment on audio tape. The men are clearly stressed and sound in awe:
Lt. Colonel Halt: 3.15: Now we've got an object about ten degrees directly south...
Sgt. Nevilles: There's one to the left
Lt. Colonel Halt: 10 degrees off the horizon, and the ones to the north are moving, one's moving away from us.
Sgt. Nevilles: It's moving out fast
Lt. Colonel Halt: They're moving out fast.
Sgt. Ball: There's one on the right chasing away too.
Lt. Colonel Halt: Yeah, they're both heading north. H..h...here he comes from the south; he's coming in toward us now!
Sgt. Ball: !@#$.
Lt. Colonel Halt: Now were observing what appears to be a beam coming down to the ground!
Sgt. Ball: ...Colours...!@#$.
Lt. Colonel Halt: This is unreal!
John Burroughs (see 25/26 Dec. page) was sleeping, but suddenly woke up. He thought the UFO might have returned, and the thought was obviously troubling him. He explained exactly what happened when he returned to the forest on the documentary "Unsolved Mysteries: Bentwaters UFO", "I woke about about 3[AM] in the morning. For what ever reason, I thought something may be happening. I don't know why, I just woke up and thought something had come back. it was a gut feeling. I went ahead and got up, I went back to the base", (John Burroughs lived off-site). John Burroughs made his way to the into Rendlesham forest, into the area where the vehicles were parked.
"All of a sudden, a couple of blue transparent lights appeared in the sky. One of them broke towards us. Passing the light-alls, they came on. It passed through the open window on the truck, going off into the distance, and the light-alls went out... the only time the light-alls were working when I saw them was when the light passed them. I have no idea what caused the light-alls to come on and off like that, apart from the blue light flying past."
It was now 4AM on the 28 December. The men were cold and tired. They had even managed to stumble into a ditch, so they were also muddy. The object(s) were now thousands of feet up in the sky, there was little anyone could do. They decided to return to base. Halt made a final note for his tape, explaining that the objects were still beaming down lights to the ground:
Lt. Colonel Halt: 3.30: And the objects are still in the sky, although the one to the south looks like it's loosing a little bit of altitude. We're turning around and heading back toward the base. The object to the...the object to the south is still beaming down lights to the ground.
[Break in tape]
Lt. Colonel Halt: 0:400 Hours one object still hovering over the Woodbridge base at about 5-10 degrees off the horizon. Still moving erratic and similar lights beaming down as earlier.
The photos which Nevilles had taken of the landing site came out fogged, according to the bases' photography lab. Although Halt suspects that the photos were swapped for some blank/blackened photographs and handed back to him deliberately.
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