UFO Sightings: The Rendlesham Forest Incident

Witness History

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History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2018

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

At Christmas 1980 strange objects and lights were seen over a US military base in Suffolk, England, for three consecutive nights. Several military service people reported seeing them, including the deputy commander of the base, Lt Colonel Charles Halt. He explains what he saw to Rebecca Kesby, and why the experience changed his opinion on the existence of UFOs.

(Photo: Computer illustration of UFOs - Unidentified Flying Objects)

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1:06.0	Hello and thank you for downloading this witness history
1:08.8	podcast from the BBC with me Rebecca Kesby.
1:12.4	And today we head back to late December 1980 and the
1:15.8	mysterious multiple sightings of unexplained lights over the biggest air base in
1:21.1	Western Europe. The Rendelsham Forest incident, as it became known, is considered
1:26.4	one of the most significant UFO sightings ever recorded. I've been speaking to the senior
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