Rendlesham Forest incidents

RAF Woodbridge/Bentwaters, Suffolk · UK·Military CE2 over multiple nights ('Britain's Roswell')·1980s

Unexplained

§ ASummary

USAF security personnel twice approached a lit triangular object in the forest; deputy base commander Lt. Col. Halt led second-night patrol recording live audio; radiation readings and landing marks logged; light beams reported near weapons storage area.

§ BWitnesses

Lt. Col. Charles Halt, Sgt. Jim Penniston, A1C John Burroughs, Larry Warren et al.

§ CEvidence & Documentation

Halt memo to MoD (1/13/81, declassified); Halt's real-time cassette tape; radiation survey; witness affidavits (2010)

§ DOfficial Investigation

MoD file (released 2010s); no formal US investigation acknowledged

§ EStatus Assessment

Officially 'no defence significance' (MoD); lighthouse/meteor explanations rejected by witnesses; enduringly unexplained; Burroughs won VA disability tied to event (2015)

§ FVerifiable Sources

Halt memo (UK TNA); Pope, 'Encounter in Rendlesham Forest' (2014); en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendlesham_Forest_incident

§ GCross-referenced cases6

1980-11-28🇬🇧 UK

Alan Godfrey / Todmorden case

Police CE + missing time

1979-11-09🇬🇧 UK

Dechmont Law / Robert Taylor incident

CE2 with injury (criminal investigation)

1980-04-11🇵🇪 Peru

Oscar Santa Maria F-4 gun engagement

Military firing on UAP

1980-12-29🇺🇸 USA

Cash-Landrum incident

CE2 with radiation-type injuries

1980-09-30🇦🇺 Australia

Rosedale water-tank case

CE2 with water loss & traces

1981-01-08🇫🇷 France

Trans-en-Provence trace case

Landing trace (state-analyzed)

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