Rendlesham Forest Incident

The Bentwaters UFO Incident
By Nick Pope

December 2010 marked the 30th anniversary of Britain’s best known and most compelling UFO case, known in the UK as the Rendlesham Forest incident, though often referred to by Americans as the Bentwaters incident.  In this article I intend to give an overview of the case, focus on the official Ministry of Defence (MoD) and United States Air Force (USAF) investigations, and then assess some of the theories that have been put forward to explain what happened.
The First Night
In the early hours of 26 December 1980, military personnel at the twin bases of RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge (UK bases operated by the USAF) in Suffolk saw a strange light in Rendlesham Forest, which lies between the two bases.  Acting on the possibility that an aircraft might have crashed, three men were sent out to investigate.  Two of them approached the light and encountered a small, triangular-shaped craft that had landed in a clearing.  Nearby farm animals were going into a frenzy.  One of the security police officers, Jim Penniston, got close enough to touch the side of the object.  He and another of the airmen present, John Burroughs, attached sketches of the craft to the witness statements they subsequently made.  Penniston’s sketch includes strange symbols that he saw on the craft’s hull, which he likened to Egyptian hieroglyphs.
The Second Night
Two nights later, the UFO returned.  The Deputy Base Commander, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt, was informed, and together with a small group of men went out into the forest to investigate.  As they progressed, radio communications were subjected to interference and powerful mobile generators (called light-alls) that Halt had brought to illuminate the forest began to cut out.  Despite his initial plan to “debunk” the UFO sighting, Halt and his team then encountered the UFO, which at one point fired beams of light down at his party and – later on – at the Woodbridge facility.  "Here I am, a senior official who routinely denies this sort of thing and diligently works to debunk them, and I'm involved in the middle of something I can't explain", he subsequently commented.
Halt had taken a hand-held tape recorder into the forest with him to document his investigation.  This tape is now in the public domain and one can hear the rising tension in his voice and the voices of his men, as the UFO approaches:
"I see it too ... it's back again ... it's coming this way ... there's no doubt about it ... this is weird ... it looks like an eye winking at you ... it almost burns your eyes ... he's coming toward us now ... now we're observing what appears to be a beam coming down to the ground ... one object still hovering over Woodbridge base ... beaming down".
The MoD Investigation
Charles Halt reported the various incidents to the MoD in a memorandum dated 13th January 1981.  Despite the innocuous title “Unexplained Lights”, the document described the UFO as being “metallic in appearance and triangular in shape ... hovering or on legs”.  In what may have been either a typographical error or a slip of the memory, Halt gave incorrect dates for both sightings, recording each as having taken place a day later than was, in fact, the case.
The MoD’s investigation included an inconclusive search for radar evidence that might have corroborated what was seen, but the error in the dates meant the wrong tapes were checked.  Of far more interest was an assessment of radiation readings that had been taken from the landing site with a Geiger counter.  The readings had peaked in three holes in the ground which formed the shape of an equilateral triangle, which had been found at the spot where the craft landed.  The Defence Intelligence Staff stated that the readings seemed “significantly higher than the average background”.  Their report suggested that the radiation was between seven and eight times what would have been expected for the area concerned.  This official assessment is now in the public domain, as the MoD’s case file on the event was released to author Georgina Bruni and to other UFO researchers in 2001.
The USAF Investigation
In parallel to the MoD investigation, Charles Halt undertook his own inquiry, interviewing Penniston and Burroughs and taking formal statements from them and three other airmen who had been involved in the first night’s activity.  However, some of the USAF witnesses have claimed that other senior officers, including Base Commander Colonel Ted Conrad and Chief of Security Police Major Malcolm Zickler, were undertaking separate investigations.  It is also alleged that the Air Force Office of Special Investigations was involved, along with other unidentified agencies. Shortly after the event, General Gabriel, Commander in Chief, United States Air Forces in Europe, visited the bases and took possession of Charles Halt’s tape recording.  This is confirmed in a document in MoD’s case file, but it is not known if other material relating to the incident was involved or what further action was taken.

Cold Case Review
In 1994 I undertook what police would call a ‘cold case review’ of the Rendlesham Forest incident.  What I found shocked me.  It was soon clear that the original investigation had been fundamentally flawed by procedural errors, delay and poor information-sharing.  The USAF had not cordoned off the landing site, taken soil samples or used a metal detector to search the area.  The incident was not reported to the MoD until nearly three weeks after the events and when it was, the dates in the official USAF report were incorrect.  The USAF didn’t pass the witness statements (including Jim Penniston’s sketch, which would have made it abundantly clear to everyone that a structured craft was involved) to the MoD, nor did they tell MoD until some time later that General Gabriel had been given evidence relating to the case, which had not been passed to MoD.
MoD too had committed errors.  The Defence Intelligence Staff assessment of the radiation levels at the landing site had not been passed to the USAF.  Critically, no follow-up interviews were conducted with Halt or any of the witnesses.  The fact that the USAF had been so slow to report to the MoD may have been a factor here, as the clear implication was that the events were not judged to be of any concern.  In fact, the delay was a consequence of Halt’s uncertainty about how to proceed, given the unprecedented nature of the events.  The person who he needed to ask – the RAF Liaison Officer, Squadron Leader Donald Moreland – was on leave. Most of these failings resulted from confusion about jurisdiction, though my assessment was that both the US and the UK had jurisdiction (jurisdiction can be concurrent – i.e. shared) but that the UK had primacy – i.e. should have led the investigation. In fact, each party thought the other should take (and was taking) the lead.  The MoD view seemed to be that the USAF had matters in hand.  But when the senior USAF officer in the UK, General Robert Bazley, was briefed on the incident by the officer in overall command of the twin bases, Colonel Gordon Williams, he stated “It’s a Brit affair”, on the basis that the incident had occurred off base. It’s well-documented that policy – both in MoD and in the USAF – was to ‘play down’ the UFO phenomenon and the extent of official involvement with the subject.  Therefore, it suited each party to drop the matter, on the assumption that the other had lead responsibility.
The Believers
A number of exotic theories have been suggested in an attempt to explain the Rendlesham Forest incident.  These include extraterrestrial visitation, inter-dimensional activity and even the involvement of time travellers from the future.  Intriguingly, this latter theory has found favour with two of the key witnesses, Jim Penniston and John Burroughs.  Even the ever-cautious Charles Halt, while choosing his words carefully, states “I still have no idea what we saw that night.  It must have been beyond our technology ... I do know one thing, without a doubt: these objects were under intelligent control”.
Exotic theories are put forward on the basis that no conventional explanation seems to satisfactorily explain what occurred.  However, as I know from my own official UFO investigations, when a sighting cannot be explained in conventional terms, it can only ever be legitimately categorised as “unknown”.  Anything else is only a guess.
The Sceptics
A number of theories have been put forward by sceptics, in an attempt to provide a conventional explanation for what happened.  The most serious allegation is that alcohol and/or hallucinogenic drugs had played a part in this.  It would be foolish to suggest that excessive drinking and illegal drug-taking never occurred at Bentwaters and Woodbridge.  However, there is no evidence to suggest any of the witnesses were drunk or had taken illegal drugs.  Moreover, security police and law enforcement personnel are routinely checked for any indications of drink or drugs before going on duty.
Two other suggestions are that the incident was caused by a prank involving a police car with its flashing lights being used to spook personnel on guard duty, or a stolen truck of manure that was set on fire in Rendlesham Forest.  In evidential terms, both theories hang on unsubstantiated claims from a single individual.  There is no evidence that such a prank or a crime ever occurred, let alone evidence that such events – even if they did take place, as claimed – had anything to do with the Rendlesham Forest incident.
Astronomical events such as meteors, fireballs and rocket re-entries have also been proposed, but such events are short-lived and it is very difficult to see how any such events would be compatible with what the witnesses saw and the time period over which their experiences occurred. The best-known sceptical theory is that the witnesses misidentified the Orford Ness lighthouse (or possibly the nearby Shipwash lightship).  This idea was first proposed by local forester Vince Thurkettle, but seems unlikely.  The lighthouse was a well-known local feature and not one likely to confuse the witnesses.  Furthermore, it isn’t visible from most of the locations where the witnesses actually were.  The lighthouse cannot possibly explain Charles Halt’s sighting of a UFO firing beams down at them from above (“lighthouses don’t fly” was his terse response to the suggestion) or hovering over the base at Woodbridge.  Indeed, at one point Halt stated he saw the lighthouse to one side of the UFO – proving that they were not one and the same.  On a personal note, I have filmed in Rendlesham Forest several times for various TV documentaries and news features.  Where the lighthouse is visible from the forest at all, it appears in the distance, as a tiny pinprick of light.

Possible Military Explanations
Two suggestions have been made involving unusual military activity that might explain events.  The first is that the craft was a secret, prototype aircraft or drone, probably

American, but perhaps even Soviet – might the symbols that Jim Penniston saw have been Cyrillic script?  The second theory is that the events were caused by some sort of psyop (psychological operation) where the witnesses were used as ‘guinea pigs’, to see how they would respond to an unusual experience, perhaps involving apparently solid objects being generated by holographic technology – a so-called ‘ghost gun’.
The problem with these theories is that there’s no evidence to support them, either in terms of personal testimony or documentation.  Moreover, if a psyop or a secret US aircraft or drone was responsible, it’s most unlikely that a UFO report would have been sent to the MoD, which might have set all sorts of hares running.  If rumours of a psyop or a secret aircraft/drone were circulating among USAF personnel or among the local population, it might arguably make sense to launch a counter-intelligence operation and ‘rebrand’ the event as a UFO sighting, but there’s no evidence that any such rumours had started.
A Soviet aircraft/drone is a slightly more plausible theory.  This was a time of high international tension and the Bentwaters/Woodbridge bases were two of the most important military facilities in the UK.  Critically, all governments involved would have had good reason for saying nothing, or even developing a cover story.  The Soviets would not admit to having been conducting espionage activity of this sort, while the US and the UK would have been horrified that the UK’s Air Defence Region had been penetrated with such ease and would not wish any knowledge of such a security breach to circulate among junior military personnel (for morale reasons) or to become public knowledge.  But I should stress that this is speculation.  As I say, I am aware of no documentary evidence or personal testimony that would support this interpretation of events.
Rendlesham 30+
On the thirtieth anniversary of these events, some of the witnesses are not coping well.  Some are angry.  Others still show signs of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.  People such as Jim Penniston, John Burroughs and Larry Warren all claim they were let down by the chain of command, which failed to provide proper support after the events.  There are more serious accusations that some witnesses were subjected to interrogations in which threats and drugs were used, perhaps to uncover the truth about what they saw, or perhaps to obscure it.
Some witnesses are calling for Congressional hearings about this and there has even been the suggestion of legal action.  A Facebook group entitled “Justice for the Bentwaters 81st Security Police at Rendlesham Forest 1980” is at the heart of campaigning and as I write this article has nearly 3500 members – a figure that is rising every day.
 While talk of Congressional hearings and legal action may seem far-fetched, the door may have been opened to such an outcome as a result of an extraordinarily frank comment from Charles Halt.  Writing in a chapter of Leslie Kean’s new book UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record, he made the following statement:
 “OSI [Office of Special Investigations] operatives harshly interrogated five young airmen, some of them in shock at the time, who were key witnesses”.
 Halt went on to write:
 “Drugs such as sodium pentothal, often called a “truth serum” when used with some form of brainwashing or hypnosis, were administered during these interrogations, and the whole thing has had damaging, and lasting, effects on the men involved”.
Conclusion
The Rendlesham Forest incident remains unexplained.  This is one of the few things one can say with any degree of certainty about these events.  Theories – whether they are about extraterrestrials, lighthouses, time travellers from the future, burning trucks of manure, psyops, practical jokes or secret prototype drones – are just that: theories; nothing more.
Georgina Bruni once called Rendlesham “Britain’s Roswell”.  She was right, but not just in the sense that she meant it, i.e. in terms of the case being significant and well-known.  Other parallels can be drawn.  New witnesses will emerge, some genuine and some not.  Additional documents may come to light.  New theories will be put forward.  In time, the fortieth anniversary will come; then the fiftieth.  Witnesses will pass on, until eventually, nobody directly involved will remain.  Ultimately, like Roswell, the events will pass from history into legend.
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Exopolitics

Many people who have some interest in UFOs and extraterrestrial life may not realize it but a new discipline or field of enquiry is emerging out of the old UFO/ET field.

Exopolitics is defined as the study of extraterrestrial relationships among many reported species of extraterrestrials, or in more simple terms is the politics of the universe.

Exopolitics is now well over a decade old and is growing rapidly around the globe, even as it is ignored by the mainstream press and even by many in the UFO community.

While the field remains controversial because it has some unscrupulous practitioners, I believe it is here to stay.

Thinkers in exopolitics are not stuck on asking the same questions over and over such as, did a UFO crash at Roswell or what was that light in the sky, or did Eisenhower meet with aliens in 1954, or is there a Secret Space Fleet?

I remember that years ago many in the Natural Sciences were very skeptical of ecology, stating that ecology was baseless because it was based on relationships that did not exist.

To the early taxonomists in the Natural Sciences, if something was not physical to be touched, felt, tasted or heard it did not exist.

Today I hear the same unfounded arguments that exopolitics has no factual basis because there are no bodies or ET craft on display to the public. Critics ignore the huge amount of credible whistleblower and contact testimony available in the public domain.

They also ignore the whistle-blower testimony that the global elite and global corporations are behind a huge cover-up and suppression of the truth in order to maintain a monopoly on ET access and to suppress innovative technologies that would put many established industries out of business.

I am one of the founders of this emerging field of exopolitics and I have written a book that I believe puts exopolitics on a solid factual footing using concepts based upon case after case of credible whistle-blower and extraterrestrial contact testimony.

I believe it is very important at this early stage of exopolitical development that we build institutional memory, just as Aldo Leopold did with Sand County Almanac for ecology, and Eric Drexler did with nanotechnology with his book Engines of Creation.

Exopolitics is evolving in ways similar to ecology, and like the development of ecology it will take decades to be understood and appreciated by the public in general.

If there is an end to the cover-up and the information presented to the public in a balanced manner we can look forward to a bright future emulating the more ethical advanced races. On the other hand if the Bilderberg Group and other secret societies continue to manage the release of information and technology in order to maintain their privileged positions in society, then a dark future lies before us.

I and some others in exopolitics are predicting that as the cover-up ends and the bodies and craft are put on public display there will be a change of tactics by the global elite. The new tactic will be as predicted by Werner von Braun decades ago, a dishonest alien invasion false flag disclosure that is scripted to cause great fear in the public mind in order to help create a one world Orwellian dictatorship.

We predict that the Secret Space Fleet will be used to simulate an alien invasion from without to disguise infiltration and control from within. This is why it is essential to think exopolitically and not remain stuck in old patterns of thought.

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A Sure Bet

 Angry punter demands winnings for Olympics Opening Ceremony UFO bet

An angry punter refused payment on a wild 1000/1 bet on a UFO flying over the Olympics Opening Ceremony is demanding answers.

Kevin Coakley is still waiting for his £1,000 winnings after placing the £1 wager on Friday and claims there is video evidence of a UFO above the Olympic Stadium taken from news reports of London 2012’s big opening night.

The former chauffeur, who made the bet at his local branch of William Hill, is in despair as bookmakers have told him they are waiting for official confirmation from Prime Minister David Cameron of any Olympic extraterrestrial activity.

After missing the showpiece ceremony on Friday night, Mr Coakley checked online to see if any of the estimated billion people who watched the ceremony around the world had spotted anything unusual.

To his surprise, the 44-year-old clicked into an internet furore about a flying saucer apparently hovering over the Olympic Park – as he had predicted.

Social media site YouTube had pages of clips containing news footage from TV stations such as Sky, BBC and RTE, which all showed a green glowing object flying over East London and internet forums were starting to suggest that something spooky was afoot.

But on heading back to the bookies to claim his prize, Mr Coakley, of Ely, Cardiff, was refused payment and told that he had to wait for an official explanation from either Mr Cameron or US President Barack Obama.

The disappointed former chauffeur said: “The staff in the shop seemed to have a lot of sympathy for me as they were looking at the footage on their mobile phones.

 “But they said their head office would not allow them to pay out.

 “For me it’s not about the money, it’s about William Hill being fair to me. If they were willing to take the bet, they should be big enough to pay out.”

A William Hill spokesman said: “The conditions of all bets that we take are that there has to be an independent adjudicator to confirm the result before we pay out.

"In the event of an extraterrestrial sighting, the confirmation has to come from either the British Prime Minister or the US President, who will confirm that their respective air forces have spotted and recorded this current and intelligent life in the sky.

 “So, sadly for Mr Coakley and others who have made the same bet, until Mr Cameron or Mr Obama make such an announcement we are unable to pay out.

 “But we understand that Mr Cameron is currently on holiday from official business so maybe he is in discussion with his advisors on what to announce about this particular sighting.”

Mr Coakley said: “I didn’t make the bet with Mr Cameron, Mr Obama, the Air Force or anyone else apart from William Hill. They can see the same footage as me, so I can’t understand why they won’t pay out.

 “Even if I don’t get my £1,000, I want an official explanation for what everyone can see on those news clips.

 “If David Cameron, or whoever, is not prepared to admit that it is a flying saucer, then at least let’s hear what was flying in the sky.”

Tyre giant Goodyear are claiming that the alleged UFO was a blimp of theirs with the branding removed.

A spokesman said: “We are not official sponsors of the Olympics so we had to remove our branding from the blimp which has been flying around the country for months.

 “It was being used by an NBC camera crew on the night of the opening ceremony, so we assume that what the UFO people are talking about was in fact our blimp.”
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Alien Pyramid

Area 51 Builds Massive Alien Pyramid

Are pyramids some kind of alien comunication or energy systems? 

Scientists in China and Russia think so.

Now, it seems the hidden technology of those ancient structures is being activated as massive pyramids around the globe are shooting pulsing streams of raw energy deep into space.

What is their purpose? Are they really conduits of cosmic energy as some have claimed?

Were some pyramids actually designed by alien ‘gods’ that created a worldwide network of advanced city-states based on their superscience?

Who really knows?

Well, maybe the United States Air Force knows.

The Air Force’s infamous supersecret base at Groom Lake, Nevada also known as “Area 51″ or “Dreamland”has just finished constructing a massive desert pyramid.

Will it tie into the network of ancient pyramids worldwide and draw upon alien technology to absorb the rippling dimensional energies to power…what?

World’s pyramids reactivating

Pyramid technology is ancient and global.

Fantastic pyramids have been discovered beneath the twisted growth of South American jungles, the ocean’s floors, on high plateaus and desolate deserts.

Some who’ve researched these ancient silent stone sentinels are convinced that at least a few of the mighty structures are actually advanced machines machines engineered to accomplish purposes so vast that the energies unleashed could dwarf today’s most advanced technology.

According to some bold science pioneers like Richard C. Hoagland, the plains of Mars specifically the Cydonia region has pyramids.

What might be pyramids have also been found on regions of the lunar surface.

Recently, Chinese scientists have activated a special team that has been studying the great Xianyang pyramid that sits near Mount Baigong in the western province of Qinghai, China.

They are now closely monitoring the pyramid for signs it might activate as others have.

Giant machines capable of generating incredible amounts of energy…is it really possible?

The evidence suggests that it is, and if so it raises the question: to what purpose will all that energy be put?

The Chinese think their famous flat-topped pyramid was used many thousands of years ago as a landing pad to recharge the internal power of gigantic alien ships.

A generator that may be able to pump out megajoules of energy can be used for almost anything: opening doorways to other universes, time travel, climate manipulation…even as a planetary defense system against careening space rocks or incoming attacking alien armadas.

The possibilities are almost endless.

The Area 51 pyramid

Area 51, first brought to the public’s attention by Las Vegas investigative television journalist George Knapp, has long been a hotbed of UFO speculation and investigations into the likelihood of the secretive desert base being used to reverse-engineer captured alien technology.

If true and there’s strong circumstantial evidence that at least some of the allegations made by Bob Lazar and others that the USAF top-secret test base is hip deep in ET artifacts and technology then some of that technology must require a charge-up to power the unearthly devices.

The Chinese scientists may be on to something.

For if the pyramid in Qinghai truly was erected to power up extraterrestrial spacecraft, then the USAF may require something similar when their scientists and engineers reach the stage in the decades-long project to back-engineer unworldly technology that’s allegedly stumped some of the world’s best thinkers for more than two generations.

If the USAF reached the stage where they need a massive, alien designed, power base they would more than likely build a pyramidal structure very much like the one in China.

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Chronos Project

Mystery of the Chronos Project

The sweeping plans of Nazi leaders and the Fuhrer himself, as well as their robust imagination far more open to esoteric and mystical knowledge than that displayed by the Allies, were but a step from turning the tides and changing the course of World War II.

It all started with the mystical society known as “Thule”, whose chief objective was to gather information on ancient technologies dating back to long dead civilisations. Even if Hitler himself had not been a member of the organisation, of which we cannot be sure, it is certain that he was profoundly interested in its work, which became evident after he’d authorised the association’s research in Tibet, both in the high mountain ranges and in the ancient books and manuscripts scattered among countless Tibetan and Hindu monasteries. It was on his orders that the scientists, under close scrutiny by the military, attempted to unravel the secrets of reincarnation, astral journeys, and inter-dimensional travel. They were most intrigued by the mentions of the legendary underground city of Shangri-La, also known as Shambala. The search for the mythical city was lead by Dr. Ernst Scheaffer, between 1940-1943 a high ranking SS officer. The German researchers were convinced that the city was the construction site for flying disks that the ancients knew as “vimanas”. Parallel investigations of similar nature were simultaneously conducted in the Near East, South America, and .. the Antarctic.

On the Fuhrer’s order, on January 28th 1938, one of the 3rd Reich’s ships named “Schwabenland” reached the shores of Queen Maud Land and claimed the territory using German planes which laid it with a massive amount of Nazi flags and plaques. The area was renamed Neuschwabenland, i.e. New Swabia. Allegedly, it was there that some of the German military personnel took shelter after the war, most likely underground, bringing their amazing technologies and research with them.