Rendlesham UFO Incident Timeline

The Rendlesham Forest Incident Timeline

Courtesy of unknown person(s):

http://bentwaters1980.proboards.com/thread/65

A few years ago I was very interested in this case and put together a timeline using as much sources

as possible.

It has been sitting on my hard disk for a few years now (I lost interest in the case due to the attitude

and motives of some of the witnesses).

It took quite some effort to put together, and I'd hate to see it go to waste.

So here it is to use and share for anybody still interested.

Enjoy! For the rest I'm done with this case ...

---- Night of 25/26 December:---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The ‘D Flight’ team is finishing up their last swing shift (15:00 – 23:00) when a Woodbridge Patrol

calls in a report of strange lights outside of the base. [Egercic, LEAG]

Somewhere between 0:00 and 01:00, Richard Bertolino and his colleague see a bright object

traversing the sky that seems to be falling between the two bases. They continue their perimeter

check, and:

“all of a sudden, on the radio, someone starts yelling ‘there is a UFO out here’.” [Bertolino, Earthfiles

interview]

Some object was also seen on radar:

“Heathrow tower and the eastern radar was called by CSC [Central Security Control] and reported

they spotted a object on radar over Woodbridge and then lost it on radar that is why we went into

the forest looking for a downed aircraft.” [Burroughs, forum of rendlesham incident site].

“The London tower, on December 25 when all this started, contacted the tower at Woodbridge base

and asked them to identify the object that was above them because it was on their radar and they

could not determine what it was.” [Nevels, Earthfiles interview]

http://bentwaters1980.proboards.com/thread/65


Chris Armold remembers a call from John Burroughs:

“After midnight, John Burroughs radioed the LE desk and reported he had seen strange lights in the

outside the East Gate on RAF Woodbridge. I was actually on RAF Lakenheath hanging out at the Law

Enforcement Desk at the time.” [Armold, James Easton interview]

Burroughs was one of the primary witnesses that night. Burroughs’ official witness statement:

“On the night of 25-26 dec at around 0300 while on patrol down at east gate myself & my partner

saw lights coming from the woods due east of the gate. The lights were red and blue the red one

above the blue one and they were flashing on and off. Because I’ve never saw anything like that

coming from the woods before we decided to drive down and see what it was. We went down east

gate road and took a right at the stop sign and drove down about 10 to 20 yards to where there is a

road that goes into the forest. At the road I could see a white light shining onto the trees and I could

still see the red & blue lights. We decided we better go call it in so we went back up towards east

gate. I was watching the lights and the white light started coming down the road that leads into the

forest. We got to the gate and called it in. The whole time I could see the lights and the white light

was almost at the edge of the road and the blue and red lights were still out in the woods.

A security unit was sent down to the gate and when they got there they could see it too.”

[Burroughs, official witness statement]

The security unit that is sent to the East Gate at Burroughs’ request consists of the other two

primary witnesses of that night: Jim Penniston and his driver, Ed Cabansag. [Buran, official witness

statement] [Chandler, official witness statement] [Cabansag, official witness statement].

When Penniston and Cabansag arrive at East Gate, Bertolino and his colleague are listening to their

radio transmissions:

“he [Penniston] was saying ‘the woods are all lit up, the woods are all lit up’. (…) At about that time

he [Penniston] reported he saw a blue and orange beacon type light.” “They were told to go out and

investigate.” [Bertolino, Earthfiles interview]

John Burroughs joins Penniston and Cabansag as they go into the forest to investigate. [Buran,

official witness statement] [Chandler, official witness statement] [Cabansag, official witness

statement].


While Penniston, Cabansag, and Burroughs are moving into the forest, Bertolino and his colleague

climb ‘bunker hill’, a bunker on a hill in the flight line, to find out if they can see anything.

Bertolino: “One thing I’ll never forget was we saw a luminescent glow. It almost had a dome quality

to it, like it lit a certain area and that was it. It was a strange light, probably the size of a football

field.” “All of a sudden Jim [Penniston] comes back ‘cause the light went out, the bright light. He

goes ‘it’s dark out here’ and I’ll never forget him saying that the blue and orange beacon light are

still there.” [Bertolino, Earthfiles interview]

The dome-shaped glow that Bertolino witnessed can also be found in one of Penniston’s drawings

and witness statement: “The area in front of us was lighting up a 30 meter area”.

Penniston reports in his official witness statement that they drove towards the area where the lights

were seen, via a logging road. Then they proceeded on foot into the forest and approached the

lights:

“When we got within a 50 meter distance, the object was producing red and blue light. The blue

light was steady and projecting under the object. It was lighting up the area directly under extending

a meter or two out.” [Penniston, official witness statement]

At this point of positive identification he also reported “that it was definitely mechanical in nature.”

[Penniston, official witness statement]

The fact that Penniston reported a mechanical object is confirmed in the official witness statements

from Chandler, who was acting as a radio relay at the edge of the forest, and from Buran, who was in

charge of the operation by radio from the Central Security Control building. [Chandler, official

witness statement] [Buran, official witness statement]

John Burroughs’ drawing of the object shows a red & orange sphere that “would move back + forth,

up + down”. When it was sitting in one place, a wide, conical red and orange ‘beam’ would point

downwards from the bottom of the sphere, with blue lights inside the beam that blink on and off.

Below this conical beam, a white light would come out in the trees. [Burroughs, official witness

statement]

Later, on the Rendlesham forum, he stated: ““Penniston from the beginning stated he felt it was a

craft I was farther away from it and did not feel it was a craft for sure. The lights around it were very

bright.” [Burroughs, forum of rendlesham incident site].


About three weeks later, Halt informs the MOD in a memo: “The object was described as being

metallic in appearance and triangular in shape, approximately two to three meters across the base

and approximately two meters high.” [Halt, official memo to MOD]

As the men approach the object it leaves the area and disappears.

Penniston put in his official witness statement: “This [50 meters] is the closest point that I was near

the object at any point. We then proceeded after it. It moved in a zigzagging manner back through

the wood then lost sight of it.” [Penniston, official witness statement]

According to Penniston, Burroughs was at a distance of 15-20 meters from him:

“Burroughs and I were approx. 15-20 meters apart and proceeding on a true East direction from the

logging road.” [Penniston, official witness statement].

Burroughs put in his official witness statement: “the woods lit up and you could hear the farm

animals making a lot of noise and there was a lot of movement in the woods. All three of us hit the

ground and whatever it was started moving back towards the open field and after a min or two we

got up and moved into the trees and the lights moved out into the open field. We got up to a fence

that separated the trees from the open field and you could see the lights down by a farmer’s house.

We climbed over the fence and started heading towards the red and blue lights and they just

disappeared.” [Burroughs, official witness statement].

[ Note: The agitation of the farm animals reported by Burroughs is confirmed in the official witness

statements from Chandler, who was acting as a radio relay at the edge of the forest and in Halt’s

memo to the MOD. [Chandler, official witness statement] [Halt, official memo to MOD] ]

The official witness statement of Cabansag (who was probably some distance behind Burroughs)

states:

“While we walked, each one of us could see the lights. Blue, red, white, and yellow. The beacon light

turned out to be the yellow light. We would see them periodically, but not in a specific pattern. As

we approached, the lights would seem to be at the edge of the forest. We were about 100 meters

from the edge of the forest when I saw a quick movement, it look visible for a moment. It look like it


spun left a quarter of a turn, then it was gone. I advised SSgt Penniston and AIC Burroughs. We

advised CSC [Central Security Control] and proceeded in extreme caution. (…) As we entered the

forest, the blue and red lights were not visible anymore..” [Cabansag, official witness statement].

The fact that Cabansag ‘advised’ Penniston and Burroughs when he saw ‘a quick movement, then it

was gone’ seems to indicate he was some distance behind them and needed to contact them by

radio.

Georgina Bruni interviewed Cabansag late in the nineties for her book ‘You can’t tell the people’.

In that interview Cabansag stated: “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.” [Bruni, You Can’t Tell the People]

In a message to Larry Warren, Cabansag stated: “Someone was inside that damned thing, you could

feel it. (…). Rumors? Bullshit. No one was talking…. But it was not from Earth” [Cabansag, LEAG].

The official witness statements of the three primary witnesses may have been watered down,

because Col Conrad, the base commander, told in an interview:

“I believe the SP’s [Security Policemen] decided to keep everything low key, this being indicated by a

change to the blotter entry concerning that early morning time frame.”

Col Conrad also stated: “Those with firsthand accounts were citing career concerns as justification

for remaining silent.” [Conrad, Dave Clarke interview] ]

Sometime during their chase, the object seems to have appeared behind them:

According to Conrad, Penniston told him:

“it disappeared beyond a small rise in the direction of a farm house. After a short pause, we decided

we had had enough and headed back toward [Chandler] and the jeep. With a quick glance over the

shoulder we saw the thing again back at the hill, this time coming toward us. We ran to get away,

but within two seconds it was up and gone.” [Conrad, Dave Clarke interview]

Bertolino was listening to the radio traffic while the men were in the woods.

Bertolino: “As they were going into the woods I’ll never forget the one transmission that first made

my hair stand up – and it still does to this day. You could hear a little heavy breathing walking

through the woods, and he [Penniston] says ‘security control the object is about 150 feet in front of

us’. And then - I mean it was just a matter of a couple of seconds - he comes back and is breathing a


little heavier and he goes ‘security, do you copy that the object is behind us now?’ “ [Bertolino,

Earthfiles interview].

The fact that the object was behind them is also supported in a letter Larry Warren wrote to his

mother on 6 January 1981:

“Then all of a sudden the light went out – and over the radio they said they didn’t like the situation

and wanted to go back to base – but they were told to keep on investigating. Then they said the

thing appeared behind them – it seemed like it was playing games” [Warren, LEAG]

In his official witness statement, Buran – who was leading the operation by radio from the Central

Security Control building – states:

“SSgt Penniston reported getting near ‘the object’ and then all of a sudden said they had gone past it

and were looking at a marker beacon that was in the same general direction as the other lights. I

asked him, through SSgt Coffey, if he could have been mistaken, to which Penniston replied had I

seen the other lights I would know the difference. SSgt Penniston seemed somewhat agitated at this

point. They continued to look further, to no avail.” [Buran, official witness statement].

After the object is gone the men only see a beacon light in the same general direction as the other

lights. They decide to follow it and walk up to a vantage point where they identify it as a lighthouse

(the Orford Ness Lighthouse).

Cabansag’s statement (note that Cabansag probably was further back): “Only the beacon light was

still blinking. (…) nothing was visible when we passed through the woody forest. We could see a

glowing near the beacon light, but as we got closer we found it to be a lit up farmhouse (…) we ran

and walked a good two miles past our vehicle, until we got to a vantage point where we could

determine that what we were chasing was only a beacon light off in the distance.” [Cabansag, official

witness statement]

Burroughs’ statement: “Once we reached the farmer’s house we could see a beacon going around so

we went towards it. We followed it for about 2 miles before we caught(?) it was coming from a light

house.” [Burroughs, official witness statement]

The beacon light is not mentioned in Penniston’s (short) witness statement.

Buran decides to terminate the investigation and orders all units back to their normal duties:


“At approximately 0354 hrs [maybe this should have been ‘approximately 03:45 hrs’?], I terminated

the investigation and ordered all units back to their normal duties.” [Buran, official witness

statement].

Bertolino: “Pretty soon they came back and we had radio silence. I still don’t know how that

happened because from what I understand they still had their same radios but we could no longer

pick up transmissions after about 45 minutes to an hour.”

Security Control called for radio silence. Since there is nothing more to see or hear, Bertolino and his

colleague continue their regular patrols and security checks. They do not receive any further radio

transmissions, which is unusual. [Bertolino, Earthfiles interview]

The radio silence is also remembered by Jerry Valdez, who joined a team that went to East Gate to

check out the situation:

“Radio communications were disrupted on and off due to some type of atmospheric disturbance.

The radios weren't working at all that night. (…) We switched channels all night. Contact had been

lost with Burroughs, Penniston and Beachum [this probably should have been Cabansag?]” [Valdez,

James Easton interview]

Halt’s memo to the MOD mentions a sighting of the object near the back gate (East Gate) about an

hour after Penniston, Burroughs, and Cabansag were send out to investigate:

“The object was briefly sighted approximately an hour later near the back gate.“ [Halt, official memo

to MOD]

Jerry Valdez, who joined a team that went to East Gate to check out the situation, remembers seeing

the object near the East Gate:

“I could clearly see the lights from the gate, just outside the back gate [east gate]. It was next to the

road. They were intermittent lights, very bright, 15-20 feet above the ground. They were pulsating

and from what I recall there were 3 lights, red green and blue. It made no noise, but it defied gravity.

It was really weird and scary. We all knew what we were looking at, but no one really came out and

said it.” [Valdez, James Easton interview]

In the meantime, Penniston, Burroughs, and Cabansag are walking back to their vehicle. According

to Cabansag, the men split up on their way back:

“CSC terminated our investigation. A1C Burroughs and I took a road, while SSgt Penniston walked

straight back from where we came.” [Cabansag, official witness statement]


Possibly Penniston walked straight back because, according to Chandler,

“While en route out of the area he reported seeing lights again almost in direct pass where they had

passed earlier. Shortly after this they reported the lights were no longer visible.” [Chandler, official

witness statement]

Chandler could have been referring to a blue streaking light that the men see on their way back.

Cabansag: “A1C Burroughs saw the light again, this time it was coming from the left of us as we were

walking back to our patrol vehicle. We got in contact with SSgt Penniston and took a walk to where

we saw the lights. Nothing.” [Cabansag, official witness statement]

Burroughs: “We had just crossed a creak and were told to come back when we saw a blue light to

our left in the trees. It was only there for a min and it streaked away.” [Burroughs, official witness

statement]

Penniston: “On the way back we encountered a blue streaking light on left lasting only a few

seconds.” [Penniston, official witness statement].

In the meantime, the Suffolk police are called. The time of the call is logged as 04:11 in the Suffolk

Police log. The person at the Bentwaters LE desk who made the call was Chris Armold [Suffolk police,

official log]

Armold: “I'm certain the decision to call the local constabulary was one that was made late in the

morning and with hesitation. You see no one was particularly eager to call the local police and ask

silly questions about UFO's.” [Armold, James Easton interview]

The Suffolk police is informed by the Bentwaters Law Enforcement desk that unarmed troops are in

the woods to investigate unusual lights in the sky, and:

“we [the USAF] are terming it as a UFO at present”.

The police contact air traffic control West Dayton and learn that reports were received of aerial

phenomena over Southern England during the night. They decide to go and take a look. [Suffolk

police, official log].

One of the Police Constables that responded to the 04:11 call was Dave King. He was interviewed by

Georgina Bruni:

“We were actually on our way to visit the Bentwaters LE desk when the call came through. When we

arrived at the Bentwaters base we were escorted through the back gate to the East Gate sentry post

and were then taken to the forest by some security policemen. We had to follow their vehicle. They


took us toward the spot where they said the other SP’s had gone and we were told they were still

out there. We had to park the car and walk on foot. The Americans didn’t come with us. (…) We

walked about half a mile into the forest (…) there were no Americans there, not a soul. We walked

for some thirty minutes.” [Bruni, You Can’t Tell the People]

Cabansag reports in his official witness statement: “Finally, we made it back to our vehicle, after

making contact with the PC’s and informing them of what we saw.” [Cabansag, official witness

statement]

Penniston states: “After a 45 min. walk arrived at our vehicle.” [Penniston, official witness

statement]. So they probably arrived at their vehicle around 04:40, 45 minutes after Buran

terminated the investigation.

Jerry Valdez, who joined a team that went to East Gate to check out the situation, also remembers

how the men finally showed up:

“Burroughs and Penniston finally showed up. I somehow think something happened to them. They

were acting strange. We were then told to go back to our posts.” [Valdez, James Easton interview]

Around that time Armold drives to Woodbridge to check out the situation. There he meets

Burroughs at the East Gate and goes back into the woods with him:

“I cruised out to Woodbridge after my Flight Chief said it would be okay to check it out.” (…) “I met

Burroughs at the East Gate of Woodbridge. We left our guns with the guy riding with Burroughs and

drove to the end of the long access road. We left our vehicle and walked out there.” [Armold, James

Easton interview]

Armold also remembers meeting Police Constables that arrived at the site:

“I believe we (Burroughs and I) met up with two constables who drove up in a small marked vehicle

on the main road that connects to the East Gate access. I have to believe the conversation we had

with them was of little consequence as I don't recall re-entering the woods with them or spending

much time chit-chatting about the issue.” [Armold, James Easton interview]

The Police Constables report back and leave the forest:


“Only lights visible this area was from Orford Light House. Search made of area – negative.” [Suffolk

police, official log]

Armold, too, saw nothing unusual while he was in the forest with Burroughs:

“There was absolutely nothing in the woods. We could see lights in the distance and it appeared

unusual as it was a sweeping light, (we did not know about the lighthouse on the coast at the time).

We also saw some strange colored lights in the distance but were unable to determine what they

were.” ”The lights were primarily white and were very small, far off in the distance. Occasionally one

would see a shade of blue or red but I attribute that to refraction from stained glass windows in a

local church in addition to the fog and weather at the time.” [Armold, James Easton interview]

According to Armold, he and Burroughs found three depressions in the ground of the dark forest:

“Eventually we found three depressions in the ground, about the diameter of a coffee can in a

triangular pattern. However, there was no damage to trees or scorch marks, or any damage to any

plant life in the area. We noted the location of the impressions and departed the area.” [Armold,

James Easton interview]

-----26 December:---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Early in the morning, directly after their 23:00 – 07:00 midnight shift (i.e. a few hours after the

strange encounter in the woods), Bertolino sits right next to Penniston in the bus that takes them

back to the dorm, via the armory (to hand in their weapons). According to Bertolino, Penniston

seems shook up, you can tell that something happened to him. Bertolino is anxious to know what

happened, so Penniston tells Bertolino about his encounter. He tells he was glad they did not take

their weapons out there, because they would probably have turned into pairs of ‘smoking boots’ if

they would have shot at ‘this thing’.

Bertolino: “He [Penniston] pulled out this little notebook that he used to write incidents in if he was

called to an incident – he always kept notes. He pulls out the notebook and he diagrams what he

saw out there. It was kind of diamond shaped with tripod legs and he explained that it wasn’t like

any metal he had ever seen.”

“There were people there when we turned in our weapons - kaki style pants, military haircut with

glasses - that took Cabansag, Longero [this probably should have been Burroughs?], and Penniston

for questioning, for debriefing.”


“One thing that drove me nuts from that day forward was, here’s guys that, .., we put our lives on

the line for each other, we would fight side by side and die with each other if we had to …, these

guys wouldn’t talk about it anymore. I felt kind of betrayed.” “What was said to them to clam them

up so tight I don’t know.”

[Bertolino, Earthfiles interview]

The witnesses arrive at the shift commander’s office. Major Ed Drury was in the shift commander’s

office when some of the witnesses were making their statements:

“There was a pile of them because I recall going through them. On reading the statements I

understood that it wasn’t very big [the object] but it was bigger than a mini. There were marks on

the trees, quite high up and someone said they’d walked up to it [the object] and it had left

depressions. I went out during the day and saw the marks on the trees and the ground depressions,

which weren’t that deep, well defined and I suggested we send someone out there to do some

readings [Geiger counter readings].” [Bruni, You Can’t Tell the People]

The Suffolk police is contacted again at 10:30 that a place has been found where a craft of some sort

seems to have landed, approximately 2 miles due east of East Gate. This is about a mile to the east

of the farmer’s field. The police find three marks which do not follow a set pattern. They are not

impressed. They report that the marks are of no depth, and could have been made by an animal.

[Suffolk police, official log]

Armold remembers: “In the morning several of us were asked if we would return to the area to point

out the depressions to some folks who I believe were from environmental health. They did have

some type of instrument for detecting radiation and I believe they did detect some measure of

radiation, however I don't think it was a significant amount.” [Armold, James Easton interview]

Jerry Valdez remembers seeing ‘people in white overcoats’:

“When we went out the East gate back to Bentwaters, leaving Woodbridge, there were many

people, including numerous people in typical lab coats making an analysis of the area. You could see

out the vehicle to the right side, that there were many people examining the area, searching, looking

for something. Some of these people were in white overcoats, that's why I say that they looked like

typical techs in lab coats. They were searching the area in front of the forest.” [Valdez, James Easton

interview]


Burroughs states on the Rendlesham forum: “Penniston and I were told to go to the shift

commanders office and after we were finished we went out to the site. There were already people

at the area where we were the night before. I don’t remember who they were for sure but they

were dayshift personnel and I don’t know how they found the area. We looked around at the

damage done to the trees and area that had the marks. Again I will not be able to tell you who found

the area first or much about what was found - I just took a quick look. The people who were out

there were involved with the British police and the area in question. If I remember right 2 of the

names were Capt Verrano and Msgt Guylouis and I also believe the ops Commander Maj Drury

showed up...” “If I remember right they were in the trees i.e. there were trees but there was a small

area within the trees that they found the marks and damage to the trees.” [Burroughs, forum of

rendlesham incident site]

After the bus arrives at the dorm, Bertolino’s shift is over. He later puts on his civilian clothes and

goes out into the woods with a few other people. They see some security police vehicles. Captain

Verrano shows them a triangular shape on the ground with circular indentations (9-10 inches across

and about 4 to 5 feet apart). Verrano also shows them – using a Geiger counter - that the radiation

peaks in the center of the triangular pattern. Bertolino notices broken limbs on the trees. Later he

hears that there may be other landing sites. [Bertolino, Earthfiles interview]

About three weeks later, Halt informs the MOD that three depressions 1.5 inches deep and 7 inches

in diameter were found where the object had been sighted on the ground. [Halt, official memo to

MOD]

Col. Conrad, the Base Commander, only hears about the events late that evening:

“I believe the SP’s decided to keep everything low key, this being indicated by a change to the

blotter entry concerning that early morning time frame. In any event, no notification or report was

made to anyone above Major Malcolm Zickler, SP Squadron Commander, until late that evening.”

“Sometime between 2100 and 2200 members of the Woodbridge SP shift appeared at a Christmas

party at the O’Club where Lt Col Halt and myself were in attendance. They reported the events of

the previous night and thinking there might be a recurrence, Halt decided to ride along with the shift

leader, which he did. Aside from that, nothing unusual happened.” [Conrad, Dave Clarke interview]

Armold remembers he joined Halt the evening following the incident involving Burroughs,

Penniston, and Cabansag:


“Halt essentially said he planned on coming out to the site in the evening and one way or another

several of us said we'd keep him company. The guys I remember were John Burroughs, Adrian

Bustamante, and me. I think another officer joined Halt, I believe it was Lt Bruce England, but I'm not

absolutely certain and maybe two other guys (possibly one named Pennington, just can't remember

for sure). There was however, no army of USAF guys out in the woods. No fleet of vehicles, no towed

light rigs, just a half-dozen or so of us stomping around goofing off. I brought a camera with me and I

think Halt had a tape recorder. We were out there for hours and someone noticed some lights in the

distance. While they often seemed to be very close in reality as we tried to approach them we

discovered they were very far away. Now don't confuse what I just wrote. Little balls of light were

not flying around us or getting closer and flying away. We initially thought the lights were closer than

they actually were.” “In the end I would say we were in the woods for 4 or 5 hours.” [Armold, James

Easton interview]

-----Night of 26/27 December:---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

According to schedule, the night shift had been taken over from the ‘C-Flight’ team by the ‘D-Flight’

team around 23:00. The C-Flight team is on its three day break (team schedules here).

Lori Buoen, D Flight, is stationed at East Gate for her midnight shift (23:00 – 07:00). This is unusual

since this gate is normally left closed and unguarded at night. Sometime during the night she sees a

red/orange fiery sphere of light with a blue/white ‘corona’ on the north side of the runway above

the woods. The light slowly descends into the dark tree line at the horizon and disappears. She gets

scared and calls the Desk Sergeant. After a while, John Trementozzi is sent to join her. [Buoen,

Earthfiles interview]

Trementozzi and four of his colleagues also saw lights above the woods. Trementozzi remembers

they were red, green and white. They were silent and not blinking. The lights would be in one spot

and then disappear, go to another spot and appear again, go to another spot and appear – not in any

particular pattern. [Trementozzi, Earthfiles interview]

PC Dave King, who responded to the 04:11 call the night before, was at the Bentwaters LE desk when

reports of strange lights came in.

“While I was there another report came in on the radio, a pocket radio, saying that there were lights

in the forest at the exact same spot as the previous night. This would now be the early hours of the

27th. I was just about to go and have a look, thinking I might see something this time, when I got an

emergency call to attend to a post-office break-in about ten miles away at Otley.” [Bruni, You Can’t

Tell the People]


After Trementozzi has joined Buoen, something peculiar happens: They hear Lt. Bonnie Tamplin

panicking on their radio and calling out for her superior, Bobby Ball.

Buoen: “Lt. Bonnie Tamplin was talking to Master Sgt. Bob Ball, Robert Ball. And I just remember the

fear in her voice. Then her saying, ‘Bob! Bob! Where are you? I can’t see anything!’ She was scared

to death – she was just, ‘Bob, Bob! Where are you? I can’t see anything!’ She was so scared – and

this was our Lieutenant!”. [Buoen, Earthfiles interview]

-----27 December:---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Early in the morning of Dec 27, John Burroughs waked up with a funny feeling. Even though he is off

duty, he goes back to RAF Bentwaters to ask Desk Sergeant O’Brien if something has happened that

night. O'Brien tells Burroughs that D Flight’s Shift Commander, Lt. Bonnie Tamplin, had been relieved

of her duty because a light entered her vehicle in the forest causing Lt. Tamplin to panic and cry

during her radio communications. She was ‘freaked out’ by beams of light that lit up her vehicle and

blue lights that passed through her vehicle and caused her vehicle to shut down. They also lost radio

contact with her for over 10 min. [Burroughs, forum of rendlesham incident site]

That same day, Col. Conrad, the Base Commander (who first heard about the UFO incidents the

evening before), decides to collect more information:

“By the morning of [27 December 1980] I contacted Maj. Zickler for information of the alleged

sighting. His information was all second hand and sketchy. Those with firsthand accounts were citing

career concerns as justification for remaining silent.”

“Maj Zickler later convinced Sgt [James] Penniston to answer some questions for me. After a sincere

guarantee that his report would have no ill effects on his career, Penniston reluctantly told his story.

At the end of the session, I asked him to draw a picture of the object he had seen, which he did

freehand. Jim Penniston is the only first-hand observer I was able to interview. We kept his name

out of any of our correspondence to honor his request.”

“I do recall Penniston's story and he did leave me with a sketch of an object he claimed to have seen.

I left the sketch in my desk drawer and the story was summarized in Halt's letter. Here's Penniston's

narrative to the best of my recollection. I'm paraphrasing, of course:”

“….The lights were clearly visible when I arrived at the RAF Woodbridge gate. No one knew the

source of the lights, but some speculated that it was close enough to the approach path of the

runway that it could in fact be a crashed plane. Because of this, it was decided that further

investigation was warranted. Burroughs, Cabansag and myself were sent out by jeep. We worked


our way toward the still- visible lights by way of a logging road. As we approached close enough to

have a clear view of the site, [Burroughs?] decided we were close enough and stopped the vehicle.

We were still more than 100 meters away and, wanting a better look, I decided to proceed further

on foot. [Burroughs?] accompanied me as we closed on what we began to see was an object with

lights on it. Our apprehension began to build, so we stopped about 50 meters away, taking cover

behind some brush. After studying the situation for about 10 minutes, we decided to move in yet

further for a closer look. Just as we began to close the distance to the object, it began to move

away through the trees. The faster we moved toward it the faster it moved away. By the time we

arrived at an open field a much greater distance had opened up between us, and soon it

disappeared beyond a small rise in the direction of a farm house. After a short pause , we decided

we had had enough and headed back toward [Cabansag] and the jeep. With a quick glance over the

shoulder we saw the thing again back at the hill, this time coming toward us. We ran to get away,

but within two seconds it was up and gone.-------(end of narrative)…”

“I asked [Penniston] for a description of the object. Penniston said he didn't get close enough for a

detailed look. What he saw was generally rectangular in shape and slightly larger than a jeep in size.

The object was mostly obscured by two horizontal rows of very bright closely spaced lights, one row

white, the other light blue. He thought one row ran along the top, the other row around the middle.

Again his distance from the object and the brightness of the lights obscured any further detailed

observance.” [Conrad, Dave Clarke interview]

Col. Conrad decides that a brief in-house investigation is in order.

“Frankly at this point, Lt Col Halt and I were discussing what level of involvement was required from

my office. We knew that silence would likely lead to allegation of cover up. With the rumor mill

already operating it was a matter of time before the press got the story. We did not want the press

to report the appearance of misinformation or cover up. We decided that a brief in-house

investigation was in order. If we could find any credible evidence to justify a request for more high-

tech investigators, then we would be in a position to pass the entire episode on to the British

authorities. If any meaningful evidence were not found, we would document that fact and close the

entire episode down by providing our facts to authorities in a low key manner. Events dictated the

latter approach.” [Conrad, Dave Clarke interview]

That afternoon, Col. Conrad orders an investigation that involves Monroe Nevels, his disaster

preparedness officer.

On Saturday afternoon on Dec 27, at around 16:00, Lt Englund picks up Nevels at his home.

Nevels: “I was in my home on Woodbridge base and I got a knock on the door. Lieutenant Englund

from the Security Police came in, started walking and looking throughout my home to see if there

was anybody else there with me. And I told him that yes my daughter was there, she was three years

old. He said ‘well does she understand what I’m talking about because what I’m about to say is top


secret. He said ‘I am here because I was sent by the Base Commander, Colonel Conrad. He asked me

to come to here and pick you up, and let me go into detail what he said.’ So then he started going

back and relating all the incidents as of the UFO on December 25 through that time frame.

The story that I got from Lieutenant Englund was that the London tower, on December 25 when all

this started, contacted the tower at Woodbridge base and asked them to identify the object that

was above them because it was on their radar and they could not determine what it was.

Lieutenant Englund told me that one of the airmen had been taken aboard the spacecraft. He just

basically went through and told me about Sergeant Jim Penniston and John Burroughs were involved

– I do remember the names were mentioned – and he said ‘even to the point that someone had

been abducted into the aircraft’ and he said ‘the reason Colonel Conrad has asked for me to come

and get you because he felt that if he wanted an honest answer from anybody then you would give

it to him.’ So it’s my orders, they are down at the Woodbridge officer’s club and they are having a

party down there – and when we get through on out investigation he’ll be waiting for us and we

need to go back and report to him what you saw.

So we left at about 16:30 that day and we went over to Bentwaters and carried my daughter with

me to the Chaplin because my wife was over there at a Chaplin’s event for the ladies. And .. we got

back in the Jeep, and we had light scopes, the night vision goggles, we had those with us, and I had

my camera, and when we got there, at the scene, we went to Rendlesham Forest and he began to

pinpoint things that had happened.

When we went out there to do the investigation he stopped the Jeep and said ‘well right here is

where we need to stop’. It was dark and I never went out that way before. I was astounded – told

myself ‘man those trees are tall’, and he said ‘yes and they said that the craft that came in, it did not

break any limbs and came right through the trees and sat down.’ It’s an impossible thing in our

realm, but not impossible from what they were doing.

And he took me to the site of the landing, and I proceeded to go into the area, and I looked around

to see what I could find, I took my camera, and when we got in there I saw the three indentations in

the ground. And I looked at that. And when we get back in the Jeep and slowly headed back toward

the East Gate, underway I looked out and saw the bright light in the forest. At that time I wasn’t

looking through the night vision goggles, all I saw was the light with my naked eye.

It was probably about that time at least seven or eight o’clock in the evening – we stayed out there

for some time – and as I looked I grabbed my night vision goggles I had, and I looked through them

and when I did, what I saw was the bright green through that picking up from the heat from the

object. But what I saw was something that looked like an eyeball, and it was very green around it but

inside it looked like a pupil of an eye. And it would just pulsate very slowly .. until I would get out of

the Jeep. I had Lieutenant Englund stop the Jeep and I got out, and when I got out the lights got

brighter, like they knew I was there. And I said ‘I’m gonna get back in the Jeep and see what

happens’, and about that time I had static all over my hair and my arms and everything and I knew

something was wrong – like you would say ‘static in the air’. And I naturally got scared too, because I

didn’t know what I was looking at. So I get back in the Jeep and when I get back in the Jeep he’s a


little bit agitated but then I could see the light would get dim. And then I move out and start to open

my door and it would get bright again. But what it would do is just sit there and pulsate.

Finally I said ‘OK now we can go’. And we got back to the Woodbridge officer’s club, and when we

got in the … [unintelligible] went to Colonel Conrad, Colonel Conrad came out and ushered both of

us in. And inside that room I saw Colonel Halt, Colonel Conrad, I believe Colonel Williams was there -

I’m not sure but I think he was, the Security Police Chief was there – and he was in uniform. So when

I got in, we discussed a little bit about what I saw and then he asked me ‘Sergeant Nevels, do you

think that it warrants further investigation?’ And I said ‘yes, sir, most definitely.’ That’s when Colonel

Halt jumped in and began to assemble a team, and we went back from there to the base, over at

Bentwaters, and I picked up a Radiac instrument.”

[Nevels, Earthfiles interview]

Halt remembers: “the duty flight commander for the security police unit [Englund] rushed in to a

belated Christmas party white as a sheet. `The UFO is back,' he said.” "I was asked to investigate.”

[Halt, Sally Rayl interview]

Col. Conrad does not mention the investigation by Nevels but states:

“The rest of [27 December 1980] saw Lt Col Halt assemble our meager assets. These were a Geiger

counter, starlight scope (night vision device) and trained SP investigators out at the site in

Rendlesham Forest.” “Halt spent most of that day with the investigators, the starlight scope and

Geiger counter.”

“After sundown he [Halt] went back to the forest with his tape recorder, and reported seeing lights

that night. This was actually early morning” [Conrad, Dave Clarke interview]

----Night of 27/28 December:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Normally, Greg Battram was working in the back-office. Once or twice a month the people from the

back-office “had an alert over there for exercises and things” “And during those times, all the back-

office people would go on a security post, additional posting and stuff out there.”

Possibly the back-office people were used as additional posting because of the strange events on

25/26 December, since a lot of the regular SP’s were not at the base due to the Christmas period.

Greg remembers he was out there for his second night:


“Nothing going on but we all still had to be there, and we were driving around on Woodbridge base

on a perimeter patrol, and we saw some lights up in the sky, and it looked a lot different from any

other aircraft we had ever seen.” [Battram, Larry Fawcett interview, in LEAG]

He probably already picked up rumors from the night of 25/26 December, because the night before

(26/27 December) he had thought “now I get to see if these guys are really high or if they're really

seeing something. The night it happened it was like – ‘Holy shit! there must be something in the

water’.” [Battram, Larry Fawcett interview, in LEAG]

In a 1984 CNN documentary Battram tells:

“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 any aircraft we’d seen. And we watched them for a while and they

disappeared. And the next thing we saw was the lights in the forest … in a clearing off the end of the

runway. And we called Central Security Control to tell them we’d like to go investigate it, and they

gave us permission to go on out.” “I looked like a fire at first, that’s what we thought it was.”

[Battram, Chuck DeCaro interview, CNN documentary]

Bustinza remembers how he got a report of a ‘fire in the forest’:

“We were in the alert area [at Bentwaters], and I was on my way over to RAF Woodbridge base at

around midnight. While we were over there, one of my patrols sighted an object of some sort. He

didn't describe it, he just said it was like a fire in the forest area. I notified my acting commander --

which was Lieutenant Englund -- and he went ahead and called the Commander that night -- which

was Colonel Halt -- and he told Lieutenant Englund to check out the situation. We proceeded to

check out the situation -- myself, Lt. Englund, and Sergeant Ball.” [Bustinza, Ray Boeche interview]

In the meantime, Battram and a few other men have gotten permission to go into the forest and

there they see something strange. They experience static electricity all over them and decide to run

back:

“As we got in there, we could see into the clearing and see a series of lights in there surrounded by

like a ground fog. It was kind of common of the area so we did not really think much of it. And we

decided to get a little bit closer to see what we could find out. And when we got closer, you began to

feel the hair on your arms, and the back of your neck, under your hat even, stand on end. Like there

was a real big static charge in the air.

We began to feel the hair on our arms stand up and we could see into the clearing and see a set of

lights that seemed to be alternating through different color ranges but it was predominantly a red or


reddish-orange hue to it. I looked like a fire at first, that’s what we thought it was. … red or reddish

orange color but it had other colors moving around in it. We didn’t know what we were

encountering and we knew it was something that .. uh .. that was totally beyond our realm of

experience .. we’d never experienced anything like this before. And about that time, we decided that

we’d better get the heck out of there ’cause we were getting a little too scared to .. uh .. just stick

around and we saw some other people coming up from one of the access roads.” [Battram, Chuck

DeCaro interview, CNN documentary]

Englund was one of the people who Battram remembers coming up from the access road, he also

thinks Larry Warren was with them:

“and when we left we met up with Lieutenant Englund as I remember it…anyway he was the only

officer I knew; and some security police come over from Bentwaters. I think Larry was with them.”

[Battram, Larry Fawcett interview, in LEAG]

Battram remembers he was ordered back to the Woodbridge perimeter by Englund:

“We just told them the whole bit and he said, ‘OK, head on back.’ So we did”. “Then we went back to

the perimeter of Woodbridge and stuck around there. We could see some activity over there but

that was it.” “We were just chattering our heads off about what we had seen. We weren't really

paying too much attention to our surroundings. We went off and parked some place.” [Battram,

Larry Fawcett interview, in LEAG]

Battram also remembers a helicopter:

“We could see one of them out there hovering around. Up above the normal parking area.”


Bustinza also talks about helicopters being scrambled:

“a squadron, pararescue squadron was activated. Woodbridge they weren’t very far away as a

matter of fact.” [Bustinza, Larry Fawcett interview, in LEAG]

According to Battram, twenty to thirty people were out there. Battram himself eventually went to

the other end of the base:


“then we got off at the other end of the base there and got involved with exercises and horsing

around and stuff. Never did see any more from that point on. The next day was when we heard all

the silly stories and stuff.” [Battram, Larry Fawcett interview, in LEAG]

Bustinza, too, says that “at least thirty people” were out there. [Bustinza, Larry Fawcett interview, in

LEAG]

Bustinza remembers he went into the forest with Ball and another officer, where they find the

object:

We started to search. … One individual [Battram?] had said that he had spotted the object -- like

sitting on the ground. We proceeded to look and in the process found kind of like triangular tripods

… burned into the [ground] at 3 different standpoints. … They were like it was a heavy object. They

[later?] took radiation readings of the holes. And they got a radiation reading as I recall. Then I recall

that we were walking through the woods and came upon the lights again. And that's when I first

saw the object …”

“We got -- I think it was the flight chief [Sergeant Ball] and I believe another individual officer. We

kept searching the area -- kind of like trying to follow the object. And it was moving through the

trees. And in the process, we came upon a yellow mist about 2-or-3 feet off the ground. It was like

dew, but yellow … like nothing I've ever seen before. … We kind of like ignored it. We were worried

about the object … to see if we could locate it again or catch up to it again …”

“We did see the object again. It was hovering low, like moving up-and-down anywhere from 10-to-

20 feet -- back up, back down, back up. There was a red light on top and there were several blue

lights on the bottom. But there was also an effect maybe like a prism … with rainbow lights on top,

scattered about .. [and] several other colors of light. It was weird … It was a tremendous size. It

even surprised me that it was able to fit into the clearing. A tremendous size -- and I use the word

'tremendous' carefully. It was a round, circular shape. I hate to say like a "plate", but it was thicker

at the center than it was at the edge.” [Bustinza, Ray Boeche interview]

“It flew toward the wooded area. You know I didn’t like when I saw it up close. I couldn’t understand

how a big thing–that big–could go in. It seemed like this thing was going dashing in between the

trees. We were chasing it for a while.” [Bustinza, Larry Fawcett interview, in LEAG]

“When I arrived it was going in and out through the trees, and at one stage it was hovering. Then it

went over to a clearing at the edge of the forest. By the time we got to the clearing it had already

landed.”


“There was a landed craft. There was a yellowish haze on the ground; it came up to about knee level,

like a low fog, it was very yellow. Everything was so weird, animals were acting strange and nobody

had a sense of direction. People had camera equipment, not the normal equipment, and there was a

lot of it.”

[Bruni, You Can’t Tell the People]

In a later interview with Larry Fawcett, Bustinza describes the object as circular shaped, thick in the

middle, and it narrows out toward the edges. It is about forty feet (12 meters) wide and more than

twelve feet (3,5 meters) in height. The body of the machine is blackish grayish, and it has all kinds of

lights that are so bright that only certain parts of the craft can be seen. There are a bunch of little

gadgets on it, but no engines are visible. [Bustinza, Larry Fawcett interview, in LEAG]

Bustinza does not remember how long the object was on the ground, but he does remember how it

suddenly took off:

"It was gone in a flash, almost like it just disappeared. When it left, we were hit by a cold blast of

wind which blew toward us for 5-or-10 seconds. … It was a really scary feeling. … I was just frozen in

place at first … my life actually passed in front of my eyes." [Bustinza, Ray Boeche interview]

“It turned, like, into a ball of light. And it was like a glow around it, and it just took off.” [Bustinza,

Larry Fawcett interview, in LEAG]

It is unclear whether Halt was already there during this encounter. It is entirely possible that he first

gave his orders by radio and was driven to the site in a hurry just after the strange object departed.

According to Conrad: “After sundown he [Halt] went back to the forest with his tape recorder, and

reported seeing lights that night. This was actually early morning” [Conrad, Dave Clarke interview]

Another witness, Randi Smith, remembers how Bob Ball collected Halt at Bentwaters and drove him

to the site in a hurry:

“Not long after the shift began, perhaps midnight or so, I heard Bob Ball come over the radio and

request that the aircraft control tower give him permission to cross the active runway, it saves 15

minutes driving time, as opposed to driving the perimeter road. At that point I knew SOMETHING

was happening because no-one ever crossed the active runway unless there was an extreme

emergency. Bob, perhaps logically accompanied by Lt. Bruce Englund, crossed the runway on

Bentwaters, they picked up Lt. Col. Halt and some equipment and returned by the same route. I

would say that between 30 minutes to an hour had passed since Bob made his first request to cross.

They then proceeded to re-cross the runway, and went out the back gate headed toward RAF

Woodbridge.” [Smith, James Easton interview]


Halt tells that when he arrives: “About a dozen of our men were already there. Our light-alls (large

gas-powered lights) wouldn't work, and there was so much static and constant interference on our

radios that we had to set up a relay. There was increasing commotion. I was determined to show

them this was nonsense.” [Halt_Sally_Rayl_interview]

Halt is shocked to see so many men outside the base and sends everyone home except for a handful

of men that are selected for a further investigation.

Bustinza remembers what happens when he meets up with Halt that night:

“Colonel Halt later tried to tell us it was our imagination. I remember he approached myself and

another, and ordered us to confiscate cameras from some British nationals. I went over and took

their cameras and gave them to Colonel Halt. He put them into bags and told us that they would be

dealt with at a higher level.” [Bruni, You Can’t Tell the People]

“What I remember clearly was that when we got there, [Col. Halt] pointed to the individuals that he

wanted to go with him. So we went back to Bentwaters base; grabbed 2 "light-alls" and had a patrol

refuel them; and once we refueled them, we took them out there to see if we could light up the area

to see if there was anything out there. In the process of trying to check the light-alls, everything was

malfunctioning. When we got to "Point A" -- the sighting of the object -- we had trouble turning the

light-alls 'on'. Our truck wouldn't run either. It was kind of like all the energy had been drained out of

both light-all units…” [Bustinza, Ray Boeche interview]

Col Halt has the habit of carrying a memo tape recorder wherever he goes. He carries one with him

in the woods that night. The tape he made that night (or at least 18 minutes of it) is in the public

domain. On the tape we can hear that Monroe Nevels, Adrian Bustinza, Bob Ball, and Lt. Bruce

Englund are with him.

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Col Halt has the habit of carrying a memo tape recorder wherever he goes. He carries one with him

in the woods that night. The tape he made that night (or at least 18 minutes of it) is in the public

domain. On the tape we can hear that Monroe Nevels, Adrian Bustinza, Bob Ball, and Lt. Bruce

Englund are with him.


On the Halt tape we can hear how the team assembled by Halt arrives at a ‘initial suspected impact

point’ and how they are having trouble with a light-all. Later on the tape, a time is mentioned:

’01:25’. They have already been investigating the site for a while then, so the tape recording starts

around 01:00.

LT COLONEL HALT: A hundred and fifty feet or more from the initial, I should say suspected impact

point. Having a difficulty can't get the light all to work - seems to be some kind of mechanical

problem. Gonna send back, get another light all. Meantime, we're gonna take some readings with

the Geiger counter, and err, chase around the area a little bit waiting for another light-all to come

back in. [Halt tape]

Bustinza can also be heard on the tape:

RADIO: . . .Sergeant Bustinza to security control.

SGT BUSTINZA:. . .still don’t have the tank a gas.

[Halt tape]

The ‘suspected impact point’ shows indentations in a triangular pattern. Halt and his men start to

investigate the indentations.

Relevant Halt tape fragments:

LT COLONEL HALT: What are the impressions?

SGT NEVELS: Just one, but...

LT COLONEL HALT: Is that all the bigger they are?

SGT NEVELS: Well, there's one more well defined over here.

(…)

LT COLONEL HALT: The indentations looks like something twisted as it dropped.. you know... as it sat

down on 'em, looks like something took something and sat it down and twisted it from side to side.

LT ENGLUND: Uh hu.

LT COLONEL HALT: Very strange.


(…)

LT COLONEL HALT: Looking directly overhead, one can see an opening in the trees, plus some freshly

broken pine branches on the ground underneath. Looks like some of them came off about fifteen to

twenty feet up. Some smaller branches about inch or less in diameter.

The alleged landing site is measured for radiation with a Geiger counter. The measured radiation

peaks in the center of the triangle and in one of the indentations though it is still within safe levels.

Throughout the night Nevels took a lot of pictures and he later developed them himself – they were

fogged, indicating exposure to some radiation source during the night. [Nevels, Earthfiles interview]


LT ENGLUND: It just jumped up towards seven tenths there.

LT COLONEL HALT: Seven tenths, right there in the center?

LT ENGLUND: Uh ha.

LT COLONEL HALT: We found a small blast what looks like a blasted or scrubbed up area here. We're

getting very positive readings. Let's see, is that near the center?

LT ENGLUND: Yes it is this is what we would assume to be the dead center.

(…)

LT COLONEL HALT: Up to seven tenths or seven...

LT COLONEL HALT: ... or seven units it’s called on the point five scale.

(…)

LT COLONEL HALT: That's that's the best ind. . . best deflection of the needle I've seen yet. OK, can

you give me an estimation? We're on a point five scale, we're getting...

SGT NEVELS: We're getting right at err a half a millirem

(…)

LT COLONEL HALT: This is out toward the number one indentation.

LT COLONEL HALT: Where we first got the strongest reading. Yeah it's similar to what we got in the

center.

SGT NEVELS: Right in the pod. It's right near the center.


(…)

LT COLONEL HALT: We're still getting minor readings second pod indentation?

SGT NEVELS: Nope.

LT COLONEL HALT: This one's dead, let's go to the third one over here.

SGT NEVELS: Sort of, whatever it is.

SGT NEVELS: Yes, now getting some residual.

SGT NEVELS: . . . definitely giving a little pulse.

The sides of the trees facing the alleged landing site are damaged and also show elevated radiation

levels compared to the opposite sides of the trees.


LT ENGLUND: Each one of these trees that face into the blast, what we assume is a landing site, all

have an abrasion facing in the same direction towards the center. The same...

LT COLONEL HALT:. . .the center of the thing was

(…)

LT COLONEL HALT: There's a round abrasion on the tree about err three and a half, four inches

diameter. It looks like it might be old, but er, strange there's a crystalline...pine sap that's come out

that fast.

(…)

LT COLONEL HALT: You're 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 NEVELS: 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 NEVELS: Maybe one or two.

LT COLONEL HALT: It's all on the side facing the... interesting.

The center of the triangular pattern left by the indentations seems to glow a little when viewed

through a star scope (a night vision device). A glow is also seen in the indentations and on trees

adjacent to the alleged landing site.


LT COLONEL HALT: We're getting'...Getting a definite heat reflection off the tree, about three or four

feet off the ground?

LT ENGLUND: Yes the same side as it.

LT COLONEL HALT: The same place where the spot is, we're getting a heat. .

SGT BALL: There's a spot on the tree directly behind us I picked up the same thing, the one off to

your right.

LT COLONEL HALT: Three trees in the area immediately adjacent to the site within ten feet of the

suspected landing site; we're picking up heat reflection off the trees.

(…)

LT COLONEL HALT: OK... looking at spot number one through the starlight scope.

LT ENGLUND: Picking up a slight increase in light as I go over it.

LT COLONEL HALT: Slight increase in light in spot number one. Let's go look at spot number two. Spot

number two's right over here. Right here, see it?

LT ENGLUND: There's a slight increase.

LT COLONEL HALT: Just a slight increase?

SGT BALL: Try the center.

LT COLONEL HALT: The center spot, no not only is it in the center, its slightly off center. It's right

there.

LT COLONEL HALT: OK lights out. It's the center spot we're looking at now; wel-almost the center.

LT ENGLUND: Getting a slight increase.


John Burroughs was with C-Flight, so he was off duty from 26 – 28 December. Still he went in his

civilian clothes to the forest on the night of 27/28. There he is held up at a staging area where he

asks for permission to join Halt and his party, but this permission is postponed. [Burroughs, forum of



RADIO: To let Aitkin, Burroughs and two other personnel requesting each a ride in on a jeep, at your

location.

SGT BALL: Tell them negative at this time. We'll tell them when they can come out here. We don't

want them out here right now.

At 01:48 farmer’s barnyard animals start making an awful lot of noise. A strange red light is seen by

Halt and his party, and by other army personnel who are in the woods at the same time. Halt and his

men proceed to try to find the light, but when they get to it, it disappears. The men cannot figure

out how it got out of the trees and don’t know where it went.

Nevels: “I looked out into the woods and saw the light, and somebody else saw the light about the

same time – they were on their radios and they contacted Colonel Halt. And we proceeded to try to

find it, and at that time the cattle were starting to get kind off edgy, you know like they knew

something was there. When we got to it, it disappeared. We couldn’t figure out how it got out of

those trees and where it went – the trees were close together, approximately 100 feet tall”. [Nevels,

Earthfiles interview]


LT COLONEL HALT: Zero-one-forty-eight. We're hearing very strange sounds out of the farmer’s

barnyard animals. There's. . .

LT COLONEL HALT:.. . very very active and making an awful lot of noise.

LT COLONEL HALT: You just saw a light?

LT ENGLUND: Yeah.

LT ENGLUND: Right on this position here straight ahead in between the tre. . . .there it is again,

watch, straight ahead off my flashlight there Sir, there it is.

LT COLONEL HALT: Hey I see it too. What is it?


LT COLONEL HALT: Yeah it's a strange small red light, looks to be out maybe a quarter to a half mile,

maybe further out. I'm gonna switch off...

(BREAK IN TAPE)

Then they suddenly see the light again, and walk towards it in a direction about 110 to 120 degrees

from the landing site. During their walk towards it they try to measure whether they detect any

radiation coming from the light.

[ Note: The Orford Ness Lighthouse is at true bearing of about 93-94 degrees and was at a magnetic

bearing of 98-99 degrees in 1980. ]


LT COLONEL HALT: The light is gone now. It was approximately a hundred and twenty degrees from

the site.

LT ENGLUND: It's back again.

LT COLONEL HALT: Let's go back to the edge of the clearing, so we can get a better look at it. See if

you can get the star scope on it.

(…)

LT COLONEL HALT: Yeah we're heading about a hundred and ten, a hundred and twenty degrees

from the site, out through to the clearing now. Still getting a reading on the meter; about two clicks.

LT COLONEL HALT: Needles jumped three to four clicks, getting stronger.

SGT NEVELS: Now it's stopped. Now it's coming up. Hold on, there we go. About a fraction of four

foot off the ground...with a compass heading of a hundred and ten degrees.

SERGEANT NEVELS: [Sneeze] excuse me, now it's died.

LT COLONEL HALT: We’ve just found the first light that we've seen, we're about a hundred and fifty

to two hundred yards from the site. . . .

Then the light suddenly appears to get brighter and to move in their direction, causing some

concern. Every once in a while they see something shoot off that looks like molten metal. They keep

on measuring the radiation level to see if it goes any higher.


In the meantime a second light is seen to their left. One light moves off to the right. The other light

comes to the left and then stays in place, moving from side to side. The light/object is now sitting in

the farmer’s field about 200 yards away. It looks yellowish/orange, as if it is very hot. They observe it

with the star scope. It looks like an eye winking at them, and when they put the stars cope on it, it

seems to have a hollow/dark center, like a pupil.

LT COLONEL HALT: There is no doubt about it, there's some kind of strange flashing red light ahead.

LT ENGLUND: Yeah, It's yellow.

LT COLONEL HALT: I saw a yellow tinge in it too. Weird. It .. it appears to be making a little bit this

way?

SGT NEVELS: Yes sir.

LT COLONEL HALT: It's brighter than it has been

LT COLONEL HALT: It's coming this way.

LT COLONAL HALT: It is definitely coming this way.

SGT BALL: Pieces are shooting off.

LT COLONEL HALT: Pieces of it are shooting off.

LT COLONEL HALT: There is no doubt about it; this is weird.

SGT BALL: Look to the left!

SGT NEVELS: Yeah, definitely moving. There's two...two lights. One light to the front and one light to

the left.

LT COLONEL HALT: OK, OK, keep your flash lights off. There's something very very strange. Keep the

headset on, see if it gets any stronger. . .

SGT NEVELS: . . . Hang on . .

LT COLONEL HALT: OK give us, give us your readout...

SGT NEVELS: OK, I have an indication and this is on a beta reading too.

LT COLONEL HALT: A beta reading?

SGT NEVELS: The beta shield has been removed. [A beta shield blocks beta radiation so that only

gamma radiation can enter the meter]

LT COLONEL HALT: OK.


LT COLONEL HALT: Pieces are falling off it again.

SGT BALL: .. it just moved to the right... it moved off to the right.

LT COLONEL HALT: Yeah ... strange, whoohh.

LT COLONEL HALT: The other one came to the left!

LT COLONEL HALT: Let's .. let's approach to the edge of the woods up there. Can we do without

lights? Let's do it carefully, come on..

LT COLONEL HALT: OK we're looking at the thing, we're probably about two to three hundred yards

away. It looks like an eye winking at you, it's still moving from side to side and when you put the

starscope on it, it, it's sort of a hollow center right, a d-dark center, it's...it's...

LT ENGLUND: It's like a pupil...

LT COLONEL HALT: Bit like a pupil of an eye lookin' at you, winking. And the flash is so bright to the

starscope, that err... it almost burns your eye.

[ Note: Halt told in a later interview with Sally Rayl: “It [the light] shot over the field and then moved

in a 20- to 30-degree horizontal arc.”

The audio tape supports him in that respect: "The other one came to the left" (listen carefully)

In his affidavit he states: “we could see the unknown light and the lighthouse simultaneously. The

latter was 35 to 40-degrees off where all of this was happening.”

A horizontal move of 30 degrees from an initial position of 110 degrees would place the object at an

angle of 20 degrees with the lighthouse.]

Nevels: “So when we went out to the edge where there was a farmer’s field - Lt Colonel Halt and

myself were mainly the leaders, we were in front – and we looked out and saw this object that was

sitting over in the farmer’s field about 200 yards away. To me it looked kind of yellowish orange like

very hot, and it looked like it was on fire, burning. And every once in a while I would see something

shoot off that looked like molten metal. Colonel Halt and I both observed that and we watched it so

we jumped the fence and as we jumped the fence it disappeared.” [Nevels, Earthfiles interview]

Bustinza remembers:

“I said ‘Oh, no, not again.’ Colonel Halt said–he mentioned a couple of names to me. We walked up

toward the craft.”


“When we walked up there, Colonel Halt started talking, and it was like, it was instant

communication between personnel.”

“I remember seeing the craft. I remember Colonel Halt talking, and I remember looking to who he

was talking to and I couldn’t see nobody.”

“I couldn’t see what, I mean, who he was talking to, and for a minute there I thought everybody

there was going crazy here or something, you know. And I do remember him saying he would

contact the electronics division, which would be CRF, I think it was, the call letters for the group. And

they would possibly have to get the part from another world. And I just looked at, I couldn’t hold my,

you know. Who are you talking to, what are you talking about, you know?”

[Bustinza, Larry Fawcett interview, in LEAG]

Halt possibly was speculating on having CRF localizing and collecting the pieces of ‘molten metal’

that they saw shooting off the object – ‘parts from another world’.

Bustinza is in a state of shock and has trouble keeping track of everything that is going on around

him.

“It was like, when something like that’s happening right before your eyes, you want to try to keep

track of everything, but it’s hard because everything is happening so fast.”

“What was going on, I was shocked.”

“I just couldn’t believe what was going on. I thought I was in a dreamworld or something.”


According to Nevels, the object he saw resembles a computer illustration that was constructed from

the drawing in Burroughs’ witness statement from the first night: A red/orange sphere that moves

around and when it is sitting in one place, a wide, conical orange/red ‘beam’ appears below the

sphere, with blue lights swirling in/around it and with a white light emanating from the bottom of it:

Nevels: “The illustration that John Burroughs did with the UK computer illustrator looked very close

to it, very close. I saw it and I got excited about it – ‘there, somebody finally drew something that

made sense to what I’d seen.’” [Nevels, Earthfiles interview]

According to Nevels the object disappeared while he and Halt jumped the fence to get closer to it.

According to Halt’s memo to the MOD it silently exploded into five separate white objects that

disappeared. [Nevels, Earthfiles interview] [Halt, official memo to MOD].


Nevels: “What we saw was so fast, and it disappeared, we were in awe about where did it go and

what did it do? And I looked up and saw the lights and I told Col Halt ‘sir the lights are up above us’.

We all started looking up and saw the lights – there were three of them – and one was predominant

over the other two – brighter and it looked more like the leader. That one would hover and move

around while the other two would kind of be still. And we began seeing the lights – looked like they

were probably 1000 feet off the ground. There was very rapid movement, no sound whatsoever. All

the cattle in the field quieted down – it was just a still and eerie feeling because it was very quiet.”

“The lights would disappear and be gone in a blink – you could blink your eye and look up and they’d

be gone, and Bentwaters would announce on their radio’s back to us ‘we see it, sir, we see it – it’s

over us’. And then when it disappeared from their sight we immediately were able to say ‘here it is’.

I could blink my eye and they were gone, and there was no sound.” [Nevels, Earthfiles interview]

John Burroughs joins the men and notices that they are visibly shaken. They tell him ‘something just

landed’.

“When I met up with his party everybody was visibly shaken up and stated they just had a

unexplainable experience Bustinza was with them. ” I was told by Halt when I met up with them that

something landed and by Bustinza also. ” ”As far as Halt goes I stated that is what he told me when

we met up. He never said what landed just something landed he then pointed up in the sky and

showed me the blue lights that were flying around. As we watched them that’s when we saw one of

them beam lights inside the storage area and the radio traffic went nuts.” [Burroughs, forum of


The Halt tape does not give any information about what happened to the strange light/object in the

farmer’s field. In the next fragment on the tape the men suddenly appear to have passed the

farmer’s house (which means they crossed the first farmer’s field). Halt now mentions seeing ‘up to

five lights with a similar shape and all, but they seem to be steady now rather than pulsating a glow

with a red flash’. This seems consistent with his memo to the MOD where he writes the object

silently exploded into five separate white objects that disappeared. They keep on monitoring

radiation levels as they go along:

LT COLONEL HALT: We've passed the farmer's house and are crossing the next field and we now

have multiple sightings of up to five lights with a similar shape and all, but they seem to be steady

now rather than pulsating a glow with a red flash.

(BREAK IN TAPE)

LT COLONEL HALT: We've just crossed the, the creek...

LT ENGLUND: Here we go your on now . . (meaning the meter)


LT COLONEL HALT: ...and er, we're getting what kinda readings there?

SGT NEVELS: Three clicks. . . .

LT COLONEL HALT: Again took three good clicks on the meter and we're seeing strange lights in the

sky.

(BREAK IN TAPE)

LT COLONEL HALT: Ah two-forty-four: We're at the far side of the farmer's, the second farmer's field

and made sighting again about a hundred and ten degrees. This looks like it's clear out to the coast.

It's right on the horizon. Moves about a bit and flashes from time to time. Still steady and red in

color.

LT COLONEL HALT: Also, after negative readings in the farmer field, we're picking up slight readings

err, four or five clicks now on the meter.

About 20-30 minutes later, Halt suddenly mentions two objects directly North and one directly

South, both about ten degrees off the horizon.

The objects to the North start moving fast, and the object to the South comes in towards them and

sends a beam to the ground.

Nevels: “those beams [that came down] looked like very faint laser beams. They were pencil thin –

we could see it against the black sky” [Nevels, Earthfiles interview]

The anxiety of the men when one of the objects comes in towards them and sends down a beam can

clearly be heard on Halt’s tape:

LT COLONEL HALT: Three-o-five : At about err... 10 degrees horizon err directly north, we've got two

strange objects, err ...half moon shape, dancing about with colored lights on 'em.

LT COLONEL HALT: The half moons have now turned into full circles as though there was an elip,

eclipse or something there for a minute or two.

LT COLONEL HALT: Three-a.m.-fifteen: Now we've got an object about ten degrees directly south...

LT COLONEL HALT: Ten degrees off the horizon, and the ones to the north are moving, one's moving

away from us.

SGT BALL: Movin forward!


SGT NEVELS: It's moving out fast!

LT COLONEL HALT: They're moving out fast.

SGT BALL: This one on the right's heading away too.

LT COLONEL HALT: Yeah, they're both heading north. Ok hey, here he comes from the south, he's

coming in toward us now.

SGT BALL: Holy shit!

LT COLONEL HALT: Now were observing what appears to be a beam coming down to the ground.

SGT BALL: Look at the colours... shit

LT COLONEL HALT: This is unreal

According to Col Conrad the lights that Halt reported were not visible from his house at Woodbridge:

“Lt Col Halt’s report of more lights both on the ground and in the sky brought quite a few people out

of their houses at Woodbridge to see what was there. These people included myself, my wife, Lt Col

Sawyer (the Director of Personnel), his wife, and several others listening to my radio and looking for

the lights Halt was describing. Despite a sparkling, clear, cloudless, fogless night with a good field of

view in all directions, we saw nothing that resembled Lt Col Halt’s descriptions either in the sky or on

the ground.” [Conrad, Dave Clarke interview]

Randy Smith was watching the events from the SPCDS [Small Permanent Communications Display

Segment - a 'computerized alarm system'] tower, and remembers seeing three objects, possibly the

same three objects mentioned on Halt’s tape. They appeared like stars to the naked eye, but when

viewed through binoculars they appeared to be cone-shaped, hovering objects with lights

underneath:

“It was a very quiet night, no planes, no helicopters flying. Clarence George came by to talk to me

and he said that everyone in the WSA [Weapons Storage Aria, Bentwaters base] was in the SPCDS

tower watching 'lights' and did I want to come check it out? So I did. Clarence thought they were all

crazy. It's a small tower and people were jammed in there body to body, overloading the tower I'm

sure. More people than I've ever seen in the tower at one time". "I asked what everyone was looking

at and they pointed out 3 objects that appeared like stars to the naked eye. Binoculars were being

passed around and when I had my turn I saw VERY CLEAR images of 3 triangular shaped craft that

were hovering a few miles away and above treetop level". “I observed 3 triangular craft with lights,

my vision was and is perfect, the area of observation was clear. There is NO DOUBT in my mind

whatsoever.”


"They were triangular in shape, larger than a fighter jet, but smaller than a C5. Definitely triangular

with lights that were arranged around the bottom that were perhaps different colors but unable to

distinguish at that distance.” “It's hard to determine how far above the trees these craft were. Best

guess, several hundred feet above the ground. They weren't 'just above' treetop, but they weren't

really that high either.” “They didn't noticeably change altitude while I was looking. They also didn't

appear to be stationary-like a star would have been. More like viewing say a helicopter that's

hovering very smoothly. i.e. no or very little yaw, and no buck. And yes, they were always perceived

to be the same distance above the trees while I was viewing.” [Smith, James Easton interview]

Easton asked Smith for more details about the shape:

“The shape is effectively an upright pyramid”.

Randy is uncertain if it was flat-surfaced or conical. However, he believed the objects were cone-

shaped as they “didn't look to be so flat as an actual pyramid”. The lights underneath, which

”created somewhat of a backlit effect enabling the shape of the crafts to be seen clearly”, were

observed to be 8-10 rectangular blocks, arranged in a circle. [Smith, James Easton interview]

In Halt’s memo to the MOD he writes: “The objects moved rapidly in sharp, angular movements and

displayed red, green and blue lights.” [Halt, official memo to MOD]

The two objects that suddenly ‘move out fast’, as described on Halt’s tape, is also remembered by

Smith:

“I only stayed in the tower for an hour or so and heard one of the guys with a turn on the binoculars

say, 'Wow, it just took off'. Two of the craft left at a high rate of speed. The one remaining craft was

still in position when I left the tower" [Smith, James Easton interview]

There also are several civilian witnesses who remember to have seen strange things in the sky

around Christmas 1980. One of them (Gordon Levett) made a sketch of the UFO that was hovering at

his house around 7-9 PM. Levett’s sketch resembles the description of the objects given by Smith (a

cone-shaped object resembling an upright pyramid with a conical surface)

A copy of the RAF Watton base logbook entry was released to UFOlogist Nick Redfern in 1988. This

was dated 28 December 1980 and timed at 0325 GMT:

“Bentwaters Command Post contacted Eastern Radar and request information of aircraft in the area

– UA37 traffic southbound FL370 – UFO sightings at Bentwaters. They are taking reporting action.”


(UA37 was the code for an air corridor used by civilian aircraft which ran north/south approximately

40 miles east of Bentwaters. FL370 signified “traffic” at 37,000 feet in altitude.)

At 03:30 Halt and his men turn around and head back toward the base while one or more objects are

still beaming down lights. At 04:00, while walking back to the base, Halt reports an object that is

‘still’ hovering over Woodbridge base and beaming down lights. This is where the Halt tape

fragments end.

LT COLONEL HALT: Three-thirty, or zero-three-thirty: And the objects are still in the sky, although the

one to the south looks like it's losing a little bit of altitude. We're turning around and heading back

toward a the base.

(BREAK IN TAPE)

LT COLONEL HALT: The object to the sou... the object to the south is still beaming down lights to the

ground.

(BREAK IN TAPE)

LT COLONEL HALT: Zero four hundred hours: one object still hovering over Woodbridge base at

about five to ten degrees off the horizon still moving erratic and similar lights and beaming down as

earlier.

END OF TAPE

Halt’s memo to the MOD summarizes the events of the whole evening as follows:

“Later in the night a red sun-like light was seen through the trees. It moved about and pulsed. At one

point it appeared to throw off glowing particles and then broke into five separate white objects and

then disappeared. Immediately thereafter, three star-like objects were noticed in the sky, two

objects to the north and one to the south, all of which were about 10 degrees off the horizon. The

objects moved rapidly in sharp, angular movements and displayed red, green and blue lights. The

objects to the north appeared to be elliptical through an 8-12 power lens. They then turned to full

circles. The objects to the north remained in the sky for an hour or more. The object to the south

was visible for two or three hours and beamed down a stream of light from time to time. Numerous

individuals, including the undersigned, witnessed the activities” [Halt, official memo to MOD]

[ Note: Halt’s memo only mentions objects to the North and one to the South. From the position of

the men, Woodbridge base would be to the West. Note that at 03:30 Halt says: “the object to the

South is still beaming down lights to the ground”. But at 04:00 he says: “one object still hovering


over Woodbridge base at about five to ten degrees off the horizon still moving erratic and similar

lights and beaming down”. This seems to indicate that the objects changed position, or there was

another object over Woodbridge base that Halt did not mention in his memo to the MOD.]

In June 2010, retired Colonel Charles Halt signed a notarized affidavit, in which he again summarized

what had happened, then stated he believed the event to be extraterrestrial:

"I believe the objects that I saw at close quarter were extraterrestrial in origin" [Halt Affidavit]

He elaborated this statement in an interview with Linda Moulton Howe (Earthfiles):

“Because those lights and craft were beyond the realm of anything we know and were intelligently

controlled. (…) I mean, here’s something that is too small for human habitation, that moves under

intelligent control, it has the ability to change shape, and then multiple objects appear that have the

capability to send down what I would say would be laser beams or something like that – and they

have a great deal of interest about what goes on at RAF Bentwaters, as far as the Weapons Storage

Area.” [Halt, Earthfiles interview]

Nevels: “I don’t know where it was from. It wasn’t anything that we’d had that could compete with

that and we don’t have that today that I know of. We cannot go that fast and we have absolutely

nothing that is that quiet. Where is the technology coming from? It had to be from somewhere.”



These are the sources for the timeline. You'll also find the Suffolk Police log here.

[Armold, James Easton interview]

ufoupdateslist.com/1997/sep/m07-029.shtml

[Battram, Chuck DeCaro interview, CNN documentary]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPkoqYXhyik


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(http://books.google.nl/books?id=6uy1SbHwnwcC&printsec=frontcover&hl=nl&source=gbs_ge_sum

mary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false)

Plus some additions by James Easton in: ufoupdateslist.com/2002/jun/m26-008.shtml

[Bertolino, Earthfiles interview]

www.earthfiles333.com/earthfiles/audio/mp3/EarthFilesEpisode57_high.mp3

[Bruni, You can't tell the people]

Cabansag interview: page 192

Dave King interview: page 123

Ed Drury interview: page 243

Bustinza interview: page 200

[Buoen, Earthfiles interview]

Only accessible for Earthfiles members at www.earthfiles.com

[Buran, official witness statement]

www.therendleshamincident.co.uk/lt-fred-burans-1981-witness-statement/

[Burroughs, official witness statement]

www.therendleshamincident.co.uk/john-burroughs-witness-statement-1981/

[Burroughs, forum of rendlesham incident site]

ufowaves.org/rendlesham/Rendlesham%20Incident%20Forum/www.rendlesham-

incident.co.uk/forum/index.html

[Bustinza, Ray Boeche interview]

www.stealthskater.com/Documents/Woodbridge_01.doc


www.therendleshamincident.co.uk/interview-adrian-bustinza-larry-fawcett/

[Cabansag, official witness statement]

http://ufoupdateslist.com/1997/sep/m07-029.shtml

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPkoqYXhyik

http://ufoupdateslist.com/2002/jun/m26-008.shtml

http://www.earthfiles333.com/earthfiles/audio/mp3/EarthFilesEpisode57_high.mp3

http://www.earthfiles.com/

http://www.therendleshamincident.co.uk/lt-fred-burans-1981-witness-statement/

http://www.therendleshamincident.co.uk/john-burroughs-witness-statement-1981/

http://ufowaves.org/rendlesham/Rendlesham%20Incident%20Forum/www.rendlesham-incident.co.uk/forum/index.html

http://ufowaves.org/rendlesham/Rendlesham%20Incident%20Forum/www.rendlesham-incident.co.uk/forum/index.html

http://www.stealthskater.com/Documents/Woodbridge_01.doc

http://www.therendleshamincident.co.uk/interview-adrian-bustinza-larry-fawcett/


www.therendleshamincident.co.uk/edward-cabansags-witness-statement-1981/

[Cabansag, LEAG]

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[Chandler, official witness statement]

www.therendleshamincident.co.uk/j-d-chandlers-1981-witness-statement/

[Conrad, Dave Clarke interview]

drdavidclarke.blogspot.nl/p/rendlesham-files.html

[Egercic, LEAG]

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[Halt, official memo to MOD]

www.therendleshamincident.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2001/05/Rendlesham-MOD-File-part1.1-

19.pdf

[Halt tape]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eCmcmefTbM

[Halt, Sally Rayl interview]

www.astralgia.com/webportfolio/omnimoment/archives/open_book/bentwaters/halt_int.html

[Halt Affidavit]

rr0.org/data/2/0/1/0/06/17/Halt_Affidavit/index.html


earthfiles333.com/earthfiles/audio/mp3/EarthFilesEpisode69_high.mp3

[Penniston, official witness statement]

www.therendleshamincident.co.uk/james-pennistons-witness-statement-1981/

[Smith, James Easton interview]

ufoupdateslist.com/1999/apr/m07-001.shtml

[Suffolk police, official log]

www.suffolk.police.uk/aboutus/yourrighttoinformation/freedomofinformation/publicationscheme/i

doc.ashx?docid=8639184b-b8fe-40ed-9b8c-932bd724e1c4&version=-1

http://www.therendleshamincident.co.uk/edward-cabansags-witness-statement-1981/

http://www.therendleshamincident.co.uk/j-d-chandlers-1981-witness-statement/

http://drdavidclarke.blogspot.nl/p/rendlesham-files.html

http://www.therendleshamincident.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2001/05/Rendlesham-MOD-File-part1.1-19.pdf

http://www.therendleshamincident.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2001/05/Rendlesham-MOD-File-part1.1-19.pdf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eCmcmefTbM

http://www.astralgia.com/webportfolio/omnimoment/archives/open_book/bentwaters/halt_int.html

http://rr0.org/data/2/0/1/0/06/17/Halt_Affidavit/index.html

http://earthfiles333.com/earthfiles/audio/mp3/EarthFilesEpisode69_high.mp3

http://www.therendleshamincident.co.uk/james-pennistons-witness-statement-1981/

http://ufoupdateslist.com/1999/apr/m07-001.shtml

http://www.suffolk.police.uk/aboutus/yourrighttoinformation/freedomofinformation/publicationscheme/idoc.ashx?docid=8639184b-b8fe-40ed-9b8c-932bd724e1c4&version=-1

http://www.suffolk.police.uk/aboutus/yourrighttoinformation/freedomofinformation/publicationscheme/idoc.ashx?docid=8639184b-b8fe-40ed-9b8c-932bd724e1c4&version=-1


[Trementozzi, Earthfiles interview]

Only accessible for Earthfiles members at www.earthfiles.com

[Valdez, James Easton interview]

ufoupdateslist.com/1999/apr/m07-001.shtml

[Warren, LEAG]

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http://www.earthfiles.com/

http://ufoupdateslist.com/1999/apr/m07-001.shtml