On two nights in late-December 1980, bizarre lights and mysterious flying objects were witnessed by dozens of military personnel in Rendlesham Forest, just outside the Bentwaters airbase in Suffolk. Dubbed “Britain’s Roswell”, the Rendlesham Forest UFO event is one of the most well-documented and widely-witnessed UFO sightings in modern times. Now a witness to the…
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Rendlesham Forest UFO event near Royal Air Force base in Suffolk (1980)
On December 26, 1980 at approximately 3:00 AM, two United States Air Force security patrolmen noticed unusual lights outside the back gate of the base. Thinking that an aircraft had crashed, they requested to leave the base to investigate. The on-duty flight chief granted permission and sent three patrolmen to investigate – Sergeant Jim Penniston,…








