Live from the BBC The Naked Scientists.

Very good evening to you.

Welcome to this week's edition of The Naked Scientists on BBC Local Radio

across the eastern counties with me Dr Chris and with

Dr Sarah hello this evening one of the most famous UFO well events of all time is under the microscope because it's 25 years this year since

Rendelsham.

And Rendelsham is a forest in Suffolk and it played home to potentially a close encounter of the third kind.

Possibly not. It could have been explained on the basis of observations that were fooling people

because people thought other things that were going on were aliens.

What really happened that night?

Well, we know that some pretty senior people in the military got pretty scared,

so something must have happened, but what exactly?

Well, here to help us out with it this evening from the MOD is Nick

good evening Nick will be joining us shortly if you'd like to share with us your

your UFO stories or you have a stance on Rendelsham give us a call have you

seen something you can't explain? Nick's here in the studio

and he's going to debunk your stories or is going to tell you how you could go about investigating

whether what you've seen is for real. 08-59-25-2,000 is the phone number,

or you can email us Chris at naked scientist.com.

Now from the Institute of Astronomy

at the University of Cambridge,

Lisa Jardim Wright's come in as well and she's going to

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