Encounter in Rendlesham Forest: The Inside Story of the World's Best-Documented UFO Incident by Nick Pope

Author:Nick Pope
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Thistle Publishing
Published: 2014-08-24T23:00:00+00:00

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The article was in Volume 9 Issue No 106.

3. I now anticipate a flood of enquiries and would be grateful for some guidance on MOD policy concerning UFO's.

The article in The Unexplained had been written by Jenny Randles.

Peter Watkins at the MoD responded to Moreland on November 9, 1982. He started out by providing some general ‘lines to take' on the MoD's UFO policy, as Moreland had requested. He went on to provide a specific line to take on Rendlesham, stating that they were aware of a report but that it had not been judged to be of "defense interest". But what clearly alarmed Peter Watkins most was the fact that the article in The Unexplained had mentioned the possibility that the events had been a cover-story for the crash of an aircraft carrying nuclear material. Watkins referred Moreland to previous denials that had been given in the UK Parliament, both in relation to the general issue of nuclear weapons accidents on UK soil and in relation to the specific case of the 1956 accident at Lakenheath, mentioned in chapter 9.

Jenny Randles, too, was pressuring the MoD. In one letter, dated February 28, 1983, she set out her own imaginative view of the Rendlesham Forest incident:

"I would add that the story behind these events indicates that there was contact between military sources and another intelligence (which is not alien spaceships in the nuts and bolts sense) but which is an indigenous intelligence to planet earth which in fact is way beyond us in terms of most capacities and therefore represent the real rulers of our world."

But she had also asked for a copy of any report on the incident held on file and while the UK did not yet have a Freedom of Information Act, and while government files on any subject were normally closed for 30 years, MoD officials correctly surmised that pressure was growing. Pam Titchmarsh from Defense Secretariat 8 (the section in which the UFO project was embedded at the time) wrote to the Senior RAF Liaison Officer (SRAFLO) at HQ Third Air Force, RAF Mildenhall. In her letter, dated May 13, 1983, she wrote:

"You will see that she [Jenny Randles] has now written again seeking further information about the incident and in particular has requested a copy of the report held on our files. The only report we have is that prepared by Lt Col Halt the Deputy Base Commander at RAF Woodbridge and I am therefore writing to ask you to seek the views of USAF to the disclosure of that report or a sanitized version of it. If the USAF would only be prepared to allow release of a sanitized version it would be helpful to know which parts they would wish me to delete. In addition, I would be grateful to know whether the USAF would be willing for me to say that they did investigate the incident."

It's easy to see how conspiracy theorists would interpret talk

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