Series 2: Case 7: The Rendlesham UFO
Uncanny
BBC
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The Rendlesham Incident is the most famous and controversial case in British UFO history, a story riddled with claims and counterclaims. Danny Robins talks to one of the original witnesses and tries to piece together just what happened back in December 1980 at a US airbase in Suffolk.
Written and presented by Danny Robins Editor and Sound Designer: Charlie Brandon-King Music: Evelyn Sykes Theme Music by Lanterns on the Lake Script editor: Dale Shaw Produced by Danny Robins and Simon Barnard
A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4
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| 0:00.0 | He's a rule breaker, a trend-setter. He reshaped art and redefined graffiti. |
| 0:07.4 | How does he smell? |
| 0:08.4 | Like paint. |
| 0:09.4 | Has he got any distinction features? |
| 0:10.9 | His anonymity. |
| 0:11.9 | But who is he? |
| 0:13.2 | What's his name? |
| 0:14.2 | Banksy. |
| 0:15.0 | Apparently, I've met him twice. |
| 0:16.5 | The Banksy story. |
| 0:18.1 | Banksy's work is always about the human spirit versus establishment. |
| 0:24.3 | Listen on BBC Science. |
| 0:30.0 | Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:37.0 | It's Christmas, 1980 in a forest in Suffolk, and a group of American servicemen |
| 0:44.4 | are standing, staring at what they believe is a UFO. |
| 0:54.6 | The Rendlesham Forest case has become the stuff of legend, discussed everywhere from tabloid |
| 0:58.8 | newspapers to conspiracy theorist forums, but 40 years later, it remains unsolved. |
| 1:05.8 | So what were they witnessing, secret military hardware, natural phenomena or proof of alien |
| 1:19.6 | contact? |
| 1:20.6 | To find out, we need to speak to a man who lives thousands of miles from Rendlesham |
| 1:24.8 | now, back home in the USA, but in 1980, he was in that forest. |
| 1:31.3 | You're talking to Charles Holt, retired Air Force Colonel, former base commander at |
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