Skeptoid #135: The Rendlesham Forest UFO

Skeptoid

Brian Dunning

Skeptic, Social Sciences, Skepticism, Paranormal, Conspiracy Theories, Urban Legends, Science, History

4.6 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2009

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Hard to believe, but it wasn't space aliens that caused blinking lights in Rendlesham Forest in 1980.

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0:00.0	There are a lot of UFO stories that have reached the tipping point and become permanent
0:08.4	parts of the popular UFO-logy literature.
0:11.8	One thing I've found that many of them have in common is that they grow and change substantially
0:17.4	over time.
0:18.7	With new details being added years after the fact, details that almost always make the
0:23.9	story more incredible, never the other way around.
0:28.6	The Rendlesham Forest UFO is coming up next, Unskeptoid.
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1:19.5	You're listening to skeptoid.
1:24.1	I'm Brian Dunning from skeptoid.com.
1:27.4	The Rendlesham Forest UFO
1:31.2	The sci-fi channel calls it the most comprehensive cover-up in the history of Britain.
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