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According to some of the Wixers, there was a close encounter of the third kind.
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It sounds like a B-sized fiction movie.
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It just does, but there they were, and they weren't from here.
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These stories are some of the strangest experiences ever described in the UK.
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We can't tell if they're true, but they are all recanted by ordinary people.
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Now they are your witnesses.
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This unique audio recording is of conversations between US Air Force soldiers and their superiors,
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as they investigate a series of strange lights in the UK's most outstanding and controversial
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The Rendalsham incident.
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Over three nights, up to 40 US Air Force personnel from bases in Suffolk saw strange lights nearby.
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There are many conflicting accounts and interpretations of what actually happened in the forest, even
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those who believe that something unusual happened do not all agree.
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Former Airman Larry Warren was one of the witnesses who came forward.
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On December 28, 1980, at that period in time, I was a security policeman at our at Bent
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Waters, and I had a secret clearance.
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I was an Airman first class, and I was assigned a deflight.
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That night I showed up at 1130 on the Bent Waters flight line for Guard Mount.
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I was in a five-man group, and I was told to move off into the forest.
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The big event took place on the night of the 28th and the early morning of the 29th of December.
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This is when the huge spaceship landed.
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It was about 30-foot wide and multiple colours spinning, if you like.
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There were about 30 to 40 witnesses in this incident.
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The first two witnesses that were involved in this incident were told to go out to investigate
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lights over the forest.
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The first thing I saw was a probably 50-foot-across diameter, yellowish, green, translucent object
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It was probably a foot and height.
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It was attached to the ground.
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It wasn't hovering above it, but had shape and definition.
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You could see through it at times periodically, and the lights went from green to yellow
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mist, as all I can describe it as.
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It was like a platform, but fluid.
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And all this was a farmer's house, and there was a light on on the second floor.
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There was a car in the driveway, and there were people probably outside watching this
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We do have evidence that this is the first incident took place, because we've got the
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photograph of the landing site.
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Also a patrol went out following this and took radiation readings.
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On the 29th of December, two days after the original sighting, the soldiers took radiation
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readings and mounted cameras in the area to see if they could make some sort of sense
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To my right, there was a motion picture camera on a tripod, and someone else had, at that
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time, a video camera filming everything I'm about to describe.
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At night, Larry Warren claims he witnessed alien life forms.
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The place of the explosion of light was this trying-your-structured object that had like
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a rainbow effect on it.
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It had boxes and pipes, or things on its surface.
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It looked very heavy.
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It was this old thing.
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Times seemed to be at half speed.
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I wasn't looking at this as a rational, normal person.
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I don't know how it affected others.
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There was no sound that I can recall.
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In fact, everything was almost like in a vacuum.
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Some people ran off, had run retreated quite quick.
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The cameras were filming this the whole while.
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Some people just stayed in place.
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I was probably shocked, you know.
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The man in charge of the patrol was Lieutenant Colonel Charles Holt.
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Larry Warren remembers the encounter his team had in the forest as recorded on the US Air
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Holt's tape actually describes the beginning of this event, as seen from about 200 yards
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away through the trees, where the red light comes in and then there's an object or something
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explodes and that's what they were seeing in Capelgreens through the forest.
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Look at that thing, I'll probably about 200 yards away.
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It looks like an eye, a winking at you.
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Don't move it from side to side.
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Don't even put the starscope on it.
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It has a hollow center, like dark sands.
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It's like a people in an eye, look at that, you know, winking.
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It's one on the right side, the way through.
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Yeah, I'm going to head on over.
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Oh, here, here, here, he comes from the south.
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He's coming towards us now.
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That one appears to be a meme coming down to the ground.
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This light came around this blind side of the object.
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Never saw the back of it.
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It couldn't move from the air it was in.
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And inside the light were these, the light diminished in brightness.
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It was a foot off the ground and there were, well, you'd only describe his children at
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I wasn't the only one that did it.
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Some other people said I thought these were children.
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And they had four or four and a half feet tall above the ground, very bright, translucent
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You couldn't see the lower extremities, but you could clearly see the face and it wasn't
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But it seemed like it was either a projection or it was separate from us or was protected
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It was, but it was alive.
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There was no doubt in my mind the way these things moved, the upper extremities.
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There was a noise behind this at one point in the arms and one of these three beings raised
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almost like this in a defensive posture.
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It had some kind of equipment around it's belt, all three of them.
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And it sounds like a B-science fiction movie.
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I mean, it just does, but there they were.
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They weren't from here at all.
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According to some of the witnesses, there was a close encounter of the third kind.
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There was actually beings.
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These were translucent.
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They were almost human looking, but translucent.
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The witnesses were absolutely in a terrible state.
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I mean, these are military men.
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We see strange, strobe like flashes to the Irish sporadic, but there's definitely something
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Some kind of caloma.
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We approached these things.
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There's been misstatements over the years that there was communication with sign language
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and all this, like closing the movies it was.
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And it was definitely a visual standoff.
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Very uncomfortable one.
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So it looked with this phenomena.
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Some of the other people looked totally buried, like everything they knew collapsed.
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We were called off by our shift supervisor back to the staging area, parking area.
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And it seemed the lower ranking guys were called off for us.
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I looked over my shoulder.
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My left shoulder is I was going over the rise.
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And this face-off was still going on on this field called Capel Green.
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And I'll never forget it.
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We got back to the vehicles and left.
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We're going to run heading back to the base.
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The object is still being downright to the ground.
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The witnesses were believed they made statements.
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The British police were also called out where the Euphoad landed and they found three indentations
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in the ground which were photographed.
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And remarkably, in 1983, they were sent a copy of a memorandum that was written by Lieutenant
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Colonel Charles Halt, the very person who went out there with the patrol and investigated
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For many years, the truth behind Britain's equivalent to Roswell remained surrounded in
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secrecy, closely guarded by both the British and US governments.
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In 1983, after years of campaigning, the US government was forced to release official
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documents on the incident under the Freedom of Information Act.
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This controversial report is signed by Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt, the commander in charge
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This memorandum was sent to the Ministry of Defence.
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And really, what it depicts is what happened during that week.
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It mentions the triangular-shaped craft.
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It also mentions that Colonel Halt was out there himself at a later date.
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It mentions the radiation readings and numerous other things.
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So here we have, for the very first time, an official document to say that this case actually
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The Halt Memo dated January 13, 1981, just weeks after these events.
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As important as it is on official Air Force letterhead authored by a deputy-based commander
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of a very important NATO airbase, describing phenomena that reads like science fiction,
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all that is good and fine.
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But the bottom line is, I witnessed it, and it's the biggest story ever told, really,
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when it gets down to it.
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If this case was brought into a court of law, the testimony from the witnesses and the
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evidence that could be brought forward would bring this house of cards down in a matter
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of hours, and that I stand by.
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Over three nights in December 1980, a series of strange lights was seen at a US Air Force
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Base near Reddolshum Forest in Suffolk.
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The lights were investigated by military police, but they could find no explanation for the
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extraordinary sites.
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In an official memo written by Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt, he described his men as
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reporting seeing strange objects in the woods.
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Early in the morning of December 27, 1980, approximately 0300 hours local to USAF Security
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The individuals reported seeing a strange glowing object in the forest.
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The object was described as being metallic in appearance and triangular shape.
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The object was hovering or on legs.
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As a patrolman approached the object, it maneuvered through the trees and disappeared.
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The next day, according to Halt, the site was checked for evidence of anything unusual.
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Three depressions, one and a half inches deep, and seven inches in diameter were found
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where the object had been sighted on the ground.
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Beta gamma readings of 0.1 milli-runchens were recorded with peak readings in the three
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depressions and near the center of the triangle formed by the depression.
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On the evening of the third day, Halt himself reported further sightings of unexplainable
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Police were called in.
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After their initial examination, they found nothing significant.
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They decided that they too could see nothing further to investigate.
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Now, the British police were also called out on the time it took place, but they were
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actually called 4am in the morning when it was all over.
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So what we have now is a police officer who is saying, oh, but there was nothing there
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when I went out to investigate it.
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But of course, it was all over by that time.
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The official line was that the lights had an innocent, rational explanation, possibly
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the beam from a nearby lighthouse, but some still think differently.
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Throughout the last 20 years, gradually some of the witnesses have come forward and started
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to talk about what happened.
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One of the witnesses was told that what he had seen was the beam from the nearby lighthouse.
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Now, this is five miles in the distance.
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He said, no, I did not see a lighthouse beam.
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What I saw was an unidentified craft.
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They kept on and on.
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And in the end, he finally said, OK, it was the beam from the nearby lighthouse.
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He was so upset about this that when he was returned back to his quarters, he actually
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thought of going AWOL.
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The final reaction from the US Air Force and the UK Ministry of Defence was the same
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and remained so to this day.
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The Ministry of Defence have denied this incident took place.
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In other words, they just say, oh, it was lights in the sky.
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It was of no defence significant.
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No matter how many times people talk about it, no matter how many witnesses come forward,
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the Ministry of Defence continued to deny that this incident took place.
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The Ministry of Defence statement was clear and unambiguous.
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The lights posed no threat.
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The Ministry of Defence examines any reports of unexplained aerial sightings it receives,
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solely to establish whether what was seen might have some defence significance.
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Namely, whether there is any evidence that the United Kingdom's airspace
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might have been compromised by hostile or unauthorised air activity.
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The judgement was that there was no indication that a breach of the United Kingdom's air defenses
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had occurred on the nights in question,
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and no further investigation into the matter was deemed to be necessary.
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The government, Great Britain has always said,
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these events were of no defence significance.
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And I countered that by saying we had the largest backline supply of tactical nuclear weapons
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in NATO secretly housed in East Anglia.
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These objects were flying with impunity over the weapon storage areas
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firing beams of light down to the ground at these hardened weapon storage areas
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adversely affecting the order and the sin.
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That sounds to me like it's extreme defence significance.
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There are actually a number of reasons why the British and American governments
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would not want to admit that this very powerful incident took place.
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At that particular time, it was the height of the Cold War.
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The bases deployed nuclear weapons that we weren't supposed to know about.
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There was a lot of conflicts going on in the world,
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but if you actually look back on the historical records on Eurphology,
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you will realise that every case is being covered up, including, of course, Roswell.
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I've never seen a tree that's in full sense.
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They will see a point where it's the damage reactor.
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So is this Britain's Roswell?
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The conspiracy theorists and believers had a field day.
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Though they don't all agree, they felt they had credible eyewitness evidence
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of sightings of alien craft,
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but the Ministry of Defence and US Air Force still maintained
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that there was no threat to air defenses, even though nuclear weapons were stored nearby.
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There could be a whole lot of reasons why we're talking about a cover-up.
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It could, in its simplest form, be bureaucracy.
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It could be red tape, and it's nothing more than that.
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I mean, our own official secrets acting in the UK buries things for years.
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Some of it is quite trivial, and there's no reason why it shouldn't be released.
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It's just that the way that the way bureaucracy works.
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Again, it could be that that's the way bureaucracy works regarding the renders of events.
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Alternatively, it could be that there was no aliens involved at all,
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that the events in question were something that our own military forces
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were experimenting with, playing around with, that went wrong.
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So therefore, there's a reason for hiding this, you know,
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military blunders in the past have been hidden for a long, long time.
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Well, again, if it is an alien presence,
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who knows the reasons why this may be kept secret?
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Amid the many conflicting stories of the Rendlesham incident,
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whether it was a lighthouse beam or other rational explanation,
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Larry Warren still believes that he saw alien beings that night.
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To the best of my knowledge, Larry's the only one that actually states
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that aliens were there at the time were responsible for this,
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that he physically saw aliens.
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I'm not sure that any of the other witnesses to these events
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even talk about aliens.
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But to be fair to Larry, he said on many occasions
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that if you take Larry Warren out of the whole rendersham story,
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that is still a story there, and he's absolutely 100% correct.
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How do I know the truth on these events?
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I know from firsthand experience and 23 years later,
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I'm looking for answers still.
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I was 19 years old when it happened in my 40s now,
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and I'm still looking.
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And I think everyone else that went through them in their own ways
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of doing the same thing.
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I don't know what the great truth of who they were that was there.
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I know the object I saw was not built in Detroit,
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and I know the pilots weren't lighthouse keepers.
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They'd be funny about it, but the explanations,
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the counter-explanation, the more ridiculous and the fact
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that there was a non-human presence in that forest on the night
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I was involved, and that was the third night,
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then involved the most participants.
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I've named them for years, long before this was part of any part
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of pop culture at all.
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And the bottom line is, I wrote a book about this
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just to set the record straight on what happened to me.
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And five years later, I have never been sued for what I said
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or naming the people and placing them in the roles they were in at all.
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Larry has had some difficulties, however.
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The US government temporarily suspended his passport,
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restricting his freedom to travel.
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I can look at myself and say that I'm the first person ever
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to be an alleged whistleblower, and I am a government whistleblower
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to have this United States passport suspended officially,
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which does not happen.
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Our passports are given to us and it's a matter of constitutional right
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unless you're a convicted felon. I'm not.
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I had mine suspended for a year,
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and with a simple reason that I spoke about sensitive defense issues
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on public soil, and it took a former United States attorney general
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under two presidents Ramsey Clark to get it back.
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Now, I can't think of any witness over the last 50, 55 years
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in this subject that has had repercussions like that.
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Did the definite heat reflection of the tree in on 5, 3, 4, 3, 4, 3?
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Yes, where's the five is?
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20 years after the event,
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the Ministry of Defence released documents relating to the Rendolshan incident.
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But this was not enough to satisfy the believers.
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There were more than 150 documents,
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but there were really only 12 documents that were very important to the case.
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Most of them were just letters from the public or letters from MPs.
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I mean, over the years, members of Parliament have asked questions
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in the House of Lords, you know,
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but still the Ministry of Defence denied that this incident
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was of any defence significance.
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I had the opportunity to interview Margaret Thatcher in 1997,
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and of course Margaret Thatcher was the Prime Minister in 1980
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when this incident took place.
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I talked to her about military personnel, scientists,
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who are now coming forward and talking about their encounters.
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She turned around and said,
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you have to have the facts and you can't tell the people.
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Now, why can't I tell the people?
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Why can't the people be told?
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But if you think about it, does the government know what's going on?
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I mean, are they able to deal with this?
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What President or Prime Minister would want to risk
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their reputation by standing up and saying,
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yes, we have had contact?
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