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Rendlesham Forest

Near Woodbridge, Suffolk

Britain's Roswell: US airmen chase strange lights through a forest.

Over several nights in December 1980, United States Air Force personnel from RAF Woodbridge and Bentwaters reported glowing lights and a craft among the trees. Deputy base commander Lt Col Charles Halt wrote an official memo, recorded his own audio tape on the second night, and noted marks in the ground and raised radiation readings.

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When
26–28 December 1980
Where
52.0890, 1.4450
Group
UFO cases

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Forestry England runs a UFO trail through the forest.

Cover of UFO Cases of Britain by Cale Mills
From the book

UFO Cases of Britain

If Britain has a single UFO case that can stand toe to toe with Roswell in terms of sheer notoriety, it is this one. The Rendlesham Forest incident has military witnesses, a declassified official memo, physical ground traces, and nearly half a century of continued argument behind it — making it, by most measures, the best-documented UFO case the United Kingdom has ever produced.

Fifty-four real and closely examined British UFO cases, weighed with honesty rather than hype. From Rendlesham Forest, the best-documented UFO case the United Kingdom has ever produced, to the Berwyn Mountains, the Broad Haven schoolchildren, the Calvine photograph and the Bonnybridge hotspot, each case sets out what was seen, who saw it and what the explanations are.

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