The Christmas UFO Invasion Witnessed by the Military
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
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🗓️ 24 December 2025
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Summary
IN THIS EPISODE: Imagine celebrating the holidays around your Christmas tree – and it begins shaking for no reason! (The Swaying Christmas Tree) *** What dark secret made Charlie Lawson slaughter his family on Christmas Day? (The Murder of the Lawson Family) *** A Weirdo family member tells of an odd yet heartwarming experience at Christmas. (Visits For The Holidays) *** A woman still mourning her husband’s passing is visited on Christmas by beautiful balls of light. (The Christmas Orbs) *** The holidays; a time for warmth, joy… sorcery, superstition, and darkness and… at least it is in Russia. (Christmas in Siberia) *** Did dozens of military personnel at RAF Bentwaters encounter an alien spacecraft over Christmas 1980? (The Christmas Invasion) *** (Originally aired December 12, 2018)
SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…
“The Christmas Invasion” posted at The Unredacted: https://tinyurl.com/y6jolswm
“Visits For The Holidays” by Weirdo family member, Ashley Ingraham
“The Swaying Christmas Tree” from YourHauntedLifeToo.com: https://tinyurl.com/yyscz2xr
“The Murder of the Lawson Family” by Orrin Grey for The Line Up: http://ow.ly/KeA130mXqwi
“Christmas Orbs” by Jenine Fitterer for YourHauntedLifeToo.com: https://tinyurl.com/yyfg8bt8
“Christmas in Siberia” by Dreyk for Your Ghost Stories: https://tinyurl.com/y4j3mp5a
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| 0:00.0 | Our Christmases tend to merge into one as we become adults, but the military men and |
| 0:09.3 | women at Rendlesham Forest in England will always remember the Christmas of 1980, |
| 0:15.2 | when they were witnessed to one of the most extraordinary UFO encounters in history. |
| 0:26.9 | The events that unfolded over that Christmas weekend are sometimes called Britain's Roswell. |
| 0:28.2 | With dozens of trained military witnesses and official documents, it is cited as the best documented |
| 0:35.6 | of all UFO cases. |
| 0:38.2 | One even the most forthright of skeptics have failed to explain away. |
| 0:44.3 | I'm Darren Marler, and this is Weirdos. This is Weirdness. Here you'll find stories of the paranormal. |
| 1:04.4 | Supernatural. Legends. Lure. Crime. Conspiracy. Mysterious, macabre, unsolved, and unexplained. |
| 1:16.9 | Coming up in this episode, |
| 1:19.6 | Imagine celebrating the holidays around your Christmas tree, and it begins shaking for no reason. |
| 1:27.7 | What dark secret made Charlie Lawson slaughter his family on Christmas Day? |
| 1:35.3 | A weirdo family member tells of an odd yet heartwarming experience at Christmas. |
| 1:42.3 | A woman still mourning her husband's passing is visited on Christmas by beautiful balls of light. |
| 1:52.2 | Ah, the holidays, a time for warmth, a time for joy, time for sorcery, superstition, darkness, and boredom. At least it is in Russia. |
| 2:06.2 | But first, did dozens of military personnel at RAF Bentwaters encounter an alien spacecraft |
| 2:15.7 | over Christmas 1980? We begin with that story. |
| 2:20.3 | Now, bolt your doors, lock your windows, turn off your lights, and come with me into the weird darkness. The RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters were known as the Twin Bases, separated by an area of woodland |
| 2:53.6 | called Rendlesham Forest. The two installations in Suffolk, Southeast England were perhaps |
| 2:59.5 | the United States' most important military complex during the Cold War, and they held |
| 3:05.6 | a dark secret. This secret was not from beyond the stars, as some suspect of the UFO that visited |
| 3:13.7 | the bases that Christmas in 1980, but man-made. |
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