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Nick Pope is the English version of our US friends Fox Mulder and Dana Scully straight out of the X-Files. He is most prominently known for having served a regular term between 1991 and 1994 within the British Government's MoD official first point of contact and investigator of UFO reports and sightings across the UK. This work was conduced within the department then identified as Sec AS2a (known as the Secretariat of the Air Force Staff).

Mr Pope claims he started his job with a “largely sceptical” viewpoint as to the idea of placing valuable resources into investigating the existence of UFOs. He is now however a renowned science fiction author and a regular media commentator on UFO and Alien matters and is one of the few individuals in a position of authority to say there is a problem in our skies which needs to be properly and immediately addressed.

UFO and Alien conspiracy theories characteristically inform each other and often ensnare so closely that it is hard to determine who initially made any particular accusation. In more recent matters, relating to the Conisholme UFO Crash site in which an alleged alien craft crashed into a wind turbine, Mr Pope has suggested this case "could have the potential to finally provide answers to the global UFO and Alien Sighting mysteries".

During his time in the British MoD he identified numerous cases where UFOs had reportedly been tracked on radar, leading to jets being scrambled, and has even suggested that Pilots of these elite craft have been ordered to shoot down UFO's over the skies of the UK.

The UK government however has a significantly different policy to that of the general public in these matters and the standard MoD line surrounding any suspected UFO sighting is “Unless there is evidence of a potential threat, there is no attempt to identify the nature of each sighting reported".

Mr Pope has written four books in his career and hundreds of articles relating to UFO and Alien matters. Operation Thunder Child is Pope's first fictional book sourced upon on evidence he identified whilst working for the British Governments MoD. The now famous ‘Cosford Incident’ facilitated Nick's belief that something had to be done about the weaknesses of the UK's air defence program which in his mind is being penetrated by UFOs. Mr Pope is committed to an open and honest debate around UFO issues, and feels that there should be full disclosure of all information on UFOs and other matters relating to the subject, held by governments around the world.

Nick's unique access to new data and old government files persuaded him that the UFO and Alien Sightings raised significant air defence and security issues. He estimates that around 85% of his cases were explainable, 10% were lacking credible evidence, and 5% were unsolved. And whilst Mr Pope says that there is currently no evidence of a hostile threat, this cannot be ruled out.

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The now infamous Roswell UFO Incident involved the salvage of suspicious apparatus near Roswell, New Mexico, United States, on the 7th of July 1947. Since the early 1980s it has become the focus of powerful rumors and probing questions around what exactly happened at this alleged crash site. While several books were published into incident it has always been suggested that there was much more to the Roswell incident than the mere recovery of a weather balloon, sceptics instead saw the increasingly elaborate accounts as evidence of a conspiracy theory being constructed.

It is this which makes the Roswell UFO incident the perfect conspiracy theory. The existence of limited evidence to support the alien downed spaceship theory is taken as confirmation that not only was there an alien spacecraft, but that a massive and wide ranging conspiracy exists to cover up this fact from the every individual on earth.

The Roswell UFO Incident reached a dormant status only a few days after it occurred and remained this way for almost 31 years when Stanton Friedman, a nuclear expert and original civilian researcher, interviewed the Roswell Army Air Field Intelligence Officer and the time of the crash a Major Jesse Marcel.

Major Jesse Marcel expressed his understanding that the military had withheld information and in essence covered up the recovery of an alien craft. Marcel took the debris he recovered from the crash site to the Roswell Army Air Field the next very morning. The Major was interviewed and confirmed the materials were "not of this Earth". Major Marcel later appeared on a local radio station and explained that he always knew it was a weather balloon.

On June 14, 1947 William "Mac" Brazel noticed some strange clusters of debris while working on the Foster ranch, where he was foreman, some 30 miles north of Roswell. Nvertheless, the original press release coming out of the Roswell Field base documented that the find was "around sometime last week," suggesting Brazel found the debris in early July. Brazel told the Roswell Daily Record that he and his son saw a "large area of bright wreckage made up of rubber strips, tinfoil, a rather tough paper and sticks. The tangible fragments recovered from the ranch which, some have claimed, was from a downed UFO and was not permitted a close inspection by the press. Friends said he had on numerous occasions described the crash of a flying saucer and the recovery of alien bodies in the Socorro area, about 150 miles west of the Foster ranch. For the first time, the object was said to have crashed on the evening of Friday, July 4 instead of Wednesday July 7.

Indeed, several objects had been picked up by radar a few days in the area before one crashed landed. Although these results have so far turned out to be inconclusive, the University of New Mexico archaeological team carried out analysis of soil disruption at the precise location that some witnesses said they saw a long, linear impact groove.

Their conclusions amounted to evidence that at least one alien spacecraft had crash landed in the Roswell vicinity and that aliens, some potentially alive, were recovered. It was intimated that a huge cover up of any knowledge of the incident was instigated. These reports were dismissed by UFO prophets as being either part of a disinformation campaign or simply improbable, though a large number of UFO researchers hold the idea that any alien crashed craft was in fact involved.

Brazel was married, with children, but his wife and children lived in Tularosa, New Mexico, near Alamogordo. Whilst he chiefly lived in house out on the ranch where he worked, he believed that the crash had resulted from falling parts that had separated from a test airplane. "Mac" Brazel spent the next 40 years or so being grilled about the incident from the media and military sources. Brazel gathered a large box load of the unusual wreckage and took it to his nearest neighbour, Floyd and Loretta Proctor, with a view to obtaining their opinion of the items.

Brazel is taken into custody almost immediately and kept under house arrest by the military for almost a week. Brazel was, so said Major Edwin Easley, the 509th Provost Marshal, "supporting" the USAF whilst staying within "the visitor guest house" on the air force base.

The US military continues to assert that what was actually recovered was wreckage from an untested high altitude observation balloon part of a classified program named project " Mogul". As described in the July 9, 1947, edition of the Roswell Daily Record, "The balloon which held it up, if that was how it worked, must have been 12 feet long". A further news announcement was published, on this occasion from the Fort Worth base, reciting the object as being a "weather balloon". The debris was consistent with the general description of a weather balloon with a kite. It is known however that government officials took reporters' notes from their desks and even warned a local radio reporter not to play a recorded interview with the ranch hand, Brazel.

There are widely conflicting views on what in reality happened and there develops to this day passionate debate about what evidence can be believed. Numerous positions materialized from these individuals as to what they felt were the true sequence of events, depending upon which witness accounts were accepted or dismissed, and what the documentary evidence recommended.

There is significant and convincing evidence that the Roswell UFO incident was a top secret government research program developing cutting edge technology designed for detecting Soviet nuclear test programs. The bulk of the evidence relating to the Roswell Incident is eyewitness testimony, which generates a unique problem since few of these witnesses come to an agreement on the exact circumstances of the alleged UFO crash.

For those whom are more than familiar with the bulk of the Roswell evidence, it would be hard to conceive of this event in which the basis events are not true, however the Roswell Incident has all the attributes to ensure it is always enshrined in UFO folklore.

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In our next installment of the infamous Rendlesham Forest UFO incident we further examine the transcript of the original audio recording made by Colonel Charles Halt of the USAF whom along with several men experienced something strange in the woods over two cold days in December 1980.

The original audio recording provides us with a fascinating insight into their investigation into the woods and today we examine some of the comments made and the equipment used during their investigation to better understand the clarity of the situation.

The Geiger Counter

It is important to look at this equipment in more detail given the emphasis on the readings (and the implications of such) produced that night. The Geiger counter used by the US air force was a type which was primarily used for only high level readings and as such, was not designed to capture accurately the type and size of the readings given the scale of the readout display which would have been small at the bottom end of the meter.

The readings recorded that night varied from 0.1 - 0.7 and evidence within the released UFO files provide us with some interesting comparison information of these readings. Nick Pope whom was the MoD's operative charged to investigate UFO sightings and investigated this case, wrote to Defence Radiological Protection Service to ascertain whether these readings were unusual.

Their reply stated that normal background radiation levels would vary dependent upon many factors however the readings recorded that night of between 0.1-0.7 milliroentgers (nr) per hour were significantly higher than the average background levels of 0.015 nr. Further, their reply stated that they would not expect background readings to be any more than a factor of two.

If the meter readings from the somewhat limited equipment were producing the correct levels then there was a significant increase in radioactive levels in the forest that night way above normal levels. However, given the limited nature of the equipment in determining an accurate reading we have to accept this evidence with a certain amount of skepticism.

Starlight Scope

The equipment used in the Rendlesham Forest investigation was known as the Starlight Scope (also referred to as Stargazer and Starscope) which in essence was a hand held night vision scope allowing users to see at night using moonlight or starlight. There are many references to this equipment within the transcript including when looking at the unidentified lights which 'burned the eye' as they placed the scope upon the object. Given what they were focusing upon appeared to be a light the effects produced by the scope would not be considered unusual however, the readings identified at the 'landing site' primarily among the two trees identified are to be considered unusual given the retention of light, and in this case, heat traces which you would not expect from a dormant tree.

Unexplained Lights

Towards the end of the transcript Colonel Halt and his men encountered a large light in amongst the trees of Rendlesham Forest. They describe the light as a 'pupil' 'winking at you' and further comment suggests that 'pieces are shooting off it'. The Starlight scope also produced some interesting information in relation to the lights given Halt's comments around the 'hollow' nature of the light when viewing with the equipment. This effectively tells us that the centre of the light was not producing any discernible effects whereas the circumference was producing some form of a ring of light giving the impression of the pupil of an eye. It appears the light was pulsating/flashing at points which I understand is where the 'winking' effect was produced through the scope and by the naked eye.

These lights and the detailed description of these events endured a high degree of scrutiny after the event was made public. The mainstream explanation was the nearby lighthouse of Orford Ness which was in a direct path to the UFO landing site. However the lighthouse in question is some 6 miles away and although would have produced some degree of light through the trees in my view does not explain the impact that these lights had upon the men witnessing them. The clear strength of the UFO, the knowledge of the local area of the men present (they knew the lighthouse location and not once was this mentioned as a possible explanation anywhere within the transcript) and the professional nature of the witness in my mind does not intimate that what they were witnessing was indeed a lighthouse beam some 6 miles away..,.

I am sure you will agree the transcript is one of the most interesting aspects of the Rendlesham Forest UFO incident and provides us with a unique insight into the walk into the woods with these men witnessing something quite extraordinary.

In our next installment we will look at the resulting investigation including an internal letter from the UK MoD confirming that a UFO indeed did land in Rendlesham Forest that night which in addition, contained alien life forms.......

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Following on from our earlier installments of the infamous Rendlesham Forest UFO encounter we now look at the tape recording made by Colonel Halt and his team of men whom bravely ventured into Rendlesham Forest on the night of 28th December 1980 (not the 29th December as indicated within Colonel Halt's report see Rendlesham Forest UFO Disinformation Prt 2).

I have little doubt as to the authenticity of this recording given the palpable trepidation, anxiousness and in some cases fear which are evident in the recordings which are in my view impossible to fake.So, sit back and delve your senses into one of the most notorious UFO sightings of our time. Over the coming weeks we will analysis this transcript in more detail and focus upon some of the more intriguing aspects of their discoveries that night....

Full Transcript of Lt Colonel Halt and other officers of the USAF taken from the original recording.

LT COLONEL HALT: 150 feet or more from the initial, I should say suspected impact point. Having a little difficulty, we can't get the light-all to work. There seems to be some kind of mechanical problem. Let's send back and get another light-all. Meantime, we're gonna take some readings from the Geiger counter, and err, chase around the area a little bit waiting for another light-all to come out again.

SGT BUSTINZA: ... to security control... that's mark... 155... number...

LT COLONEL HALT: OK, we're now approaching an area within about 25-30 feet. What kind of readings are we getting... err...

SGT NEVILLES: Just minor clicks,

LT. COLONEL HALT: Minor clicks.

LT COLONEL HALT: What are the impressions?

SGT NEVILLES: Just one, but...

LT COLONEL HALT: Is that all the bigger they are?

SGT NEVILLES: Well, there's one more well defined over here.

SGT BUSTINZA: ...Sergeant Bustinza to security control...

LT COLONEL HALT: We're still getting clicks

SGT BUSTINZA: ... Sergeant Bustinza. Well we're outta gas... we're at east gate...east gate, over

LT COLONEL HALT: Can you read that on the scale?

SGT NEVILLES: Yes Sir. We're now on a five tenths scale and we're reading about..er..third, fourth...

LT COLONEL HALT: OK, we're still comfortably safe here?

SGT BUSTINZA: you don't have a light-all or ... or anything... duty security. Can you hear me?... Sergeant... a light all, with gas please.

LT ENGLUND: We're still getting minor readings... we're getting a good indentation.

SGT BUSTINZA: ... security D to security.

SGT NEVILLES: This one's dead.

LT ENGLUND: Let's go to the third one over here.

SGT NEVILLES: Sort of, whatever it is.

SGT BUSTINZA: ... Sergeant Bustinza ... security...

SGT NEVILLES: Yes, now getting some residual.

LT. COLONEL HALT: How can you read that? The meters definitely giving off pulse.

LT ENGLUND: About the center.

LT COLONEL HALT: Yes, I was gonna say, let's go to the center of the area next, see what kind of reading we get out there. Keep reading the clicks. I can't hear the clicks. Guess you all... is that about center .

LT ENGLUND: Yes

LT COLONEL HALT: OK let's go to the center.

SGT NEVILLES: Yes I'm getting more...

LT COLONEL HALT: That's about the best deflection of the needle I've seen yet. OK, can you do an estimation? We're on a point five scale, we're getting... having trouble reading the scale.

LT ENGLUND: At err, approximately 0125 hours.

SGT NEVILLES: We're getting rad at err a half a millirem

UNKNOWN VOICE: Chuck.

LT COLONEL HALT: ... best point, I haven't seen it go any higher.

LT ENGLUND: Well, it's still flying around.

LT COLONEL HALT: OK we'll go out toward the...

LT ENGLUND: Now it's picking up...

LT COLONEL HALT: This out toward the indentation were we first got the strongest reading. It's similar to what we got in the center.

SGT NEVILLES: Right near the pod. It's right near the center.

LT ENGLUND: This looks like an area here across where there could be a blast. It's in the center.

LT ENGLUND: It jumped up towards seven...

LT COLONEL HALT: What?

LT ENGLUND: It just jumped towards seven tenths there.

LT COLONEL HALT: Seven tenths, right there in the center?

LT ENGLUND: Ah, Ah.

LT COLONEL HALT: We found a small blast what looks like a blasted or scruffed up area here. We're getting very positive readings. Let's see, is that near the center?

LT ENGLUND: Yes it is.

SGT NEVILLES: Well, we assume it is..

LT ENGLUND: This is right in the center... dead center...

SGT NEVILLES: picking up more as you go along the whole area there now...

LT COLONEL HALT: Up to seven tenths...

SGT BUSTINZA:... 55, this is our last call...

LT COLONEL HALT: ... or seven units. It's going on the point five scale.

LT COLONEL HALT: OK why don't we do this, why don't we make a sweep now I've got my gloves on now. Let's make a sweep out around the whole area about ten foot out and make a perimeter run around it, starting right back at here at the corner, back at the same first corner where we came in. Let's go right back here... now I'm gonna have to depend upon you counting the clicks.

LT ENGLUND: Right.

LT COLONEL HALT: OK, get the light-all on it.

LT ENGLUND: Lets sweep around it.

SGT NEVILLES: It was flying.

LT COLONEL HALT: Put it on the ground every once in a while.

BACKGROUND: We have lights nearby...

LT ENGLUND: This looks like an abrasion on the tree...

LT COLONEL HALT: OK, we'll catch that on the way back, let's go around.

LT ENGLUND: We're getting interest right over here. It looks like it's an abrasion pointing into the center...

LT COLONEL HALT: It is.

LT ENGLUND: ... of the landing area.

LT COLONEL HALT: it may be old though. There's some sap marks or something like that. Let's go on back around.

UNKNOWN VOICE: Err...

SGT NEVILLES: It also gives some extension on it.

LT COLONEL HALT: Hey, this is an awkward thing to use, isn't it?

SGT NEVILLES: Normally you see I carry it on my... on my ears but this one broke.

LT COLONEL HALT: Are we getting any further? I'm gonna shut this recorder off until we find something.

SGT NEVILLES: Picking up

LT COLONEL HALT: Pickin up. What are we up to? We're up to two-three units deflection. You're getting in close to the pod?

SGT NEVILLES: Picking up something... picking up.

LT COLONEL HALT: OK. It's still not going above three to four units.

SGT NEVILLES: Picking up more though, more frequent.

LT COLONEL HALT: Yes, you're staying - you're staying steady up around two to three to four units now.

SGT BUSTINZA: 155

LT ENGLUND: Each one of these trees is facing at a blast, what we assume is a landing site, all have abrasion facing in the same direction towards the center. The same...

LT COLONEL HALT: Let's go around a circle here. Turn back down here.

MASTER SGT BALL: Try the other tree.

SGT NEVILLES: Picking up something ...a ...

LT COLONEL HALT: Let me see that. You know I've got a funny ... you're worried about the abrasion. I've never seen a tree that's, err...

MASTER SERGEANT BALL: That's a small sap mark.

LT COLONEL HALT: I've never seen a pine tree that's been damaged, react that fast.

SGT NEVILLES: You got a bottle to put that in?

LT COLONEL HALT: You got a sample bottle?

LT ENGLUND: Yes put out the... that's for the soil sample... .

SGT NEVILLES: Yes Sir.

LT COLONEL HALT: From now on let's let's...

LT ENGLUND: You'll notice they're all at the same...

LT COLONEL HALT: Let's, lets, lets identify that as point number one. That stake there. So you all know where it is if we have to sketch it. You got that Sergeant Nevilles?

SGT NEVILLES: Yes Sir. Closest to the Woodbridge...

LT COLONEL HALT: Closest to the Woodbridge base.

SGT NEVILLES: Be point one?

LT COLONEL HALT: Be point one. Let's go clockwise from there.

SGT NEVILLES: Point two?

LT ENGLUND: Go ahead...

LT COLONEL HALT: Point two. So this tree is between two and point three.

MASTER SGT BALL: Burroughs and two other personnel requesting ... riding on a jeep, that err, your location.

LT COLONEL HALT: Tell them negative at this time. We'll tell them when they can come out here. We don't want them out here right now.

LT COLONEL HALT: OK the sample, you gonna want this sample number one? Have em cut it off, include some of that sap and all... is between indentation two and three on a pine tree about err... about five feet away... about three and half feet off the ground.

SGT NEVILLES: ...I'll just put it in there for now, I've got some more...

LT COLONEL HALT: There's a round abrasion on the tree about three and a half, four inches diameter. It looks like it might be old, but er, strange there's a crystalline...pine sap that's come that fast.

SGT FRAIL:... Sergeant Frail...

LT COLONEL HALT: You say there are other trees that are damaged in a similar fashion?

LT ENGLUND:...center of the landing site....

LT COLONEL HALT: OK, why don't you take a picture of that and remember your picture. Hey, I hope you're writing this down. It's gonna be on the tape.

SGT NEVILLES: You got a tape measure with you?

LT COLONEL HALT: This is your picture, the first picture will be at the first tree, the one between err... mark two and three. Meantime, I'm gonna look at a couple of those trees over here.

UNKNOWN VOICE: We are getting some...

LT COLONEL HALT: We are getting readings on the tree. You're taking samples from on the side facing the suspected landing site?

LT ENGLUND: Four clicks max.

LT COLONEL HALT: Up to four. Interesting. That's right were you're taking the sample now.

LT ENGLUND: Four.

LT COLONEL HALT: That's the strongest point on the tree?

SGT NEVILLES: Yes sir, and if you come to the back, there's no clicks whatsoever.

LT COLONEL HALT: No clicks at all in the back.

SGT NEVILLES: Maybe one or two.

LT COLONEL HALT: It's all on the side facing the... interesting.

LT COLONEL HALT: Looks like it f... twisted as it got... as it sat down on it, looks like something twisted it from side to side.

LT ENGLUND: Ah, Ah

LT COLONEL HALT: Very strange. We're at the same tree we took a sample of with this, what do you call it... the starscope.

LT ENGLUND: Ah ah, Stargazer

LT COLONEL HALT: Getting a definite heat reflection off the tree, about three to four feet off the ground?

LT ENGLUND: Yes... the same side in...

LT COLONEL HALT: the same place were the ...is

LT ENGLUND: ...we're getting heat directly behind us. I think we got the same thing off to your right.

LT COLONEL HALT: There are three trees in the area immediately adjacent to the site within ten feet of the suspected landing site; we're picking up heat reflection off the trees.

LT ENGLUND: Shine the light on that .

LT COLONEL HALT: What's that again?

LT ENGLUND: Well, shine the light on again Bob

LT COLONEL HALT: Why, you having trouble finding it... turn the light on.

LT ENGLUND: ... then when you want em you'll notice the white

LT COLONEL HALT: Hey...

LT COLONEL HALT: You're right there's a white streak on the tree.

LT ENGLUND: Indicates er...

LT COLONEL HALT: Let's turn around and look at this tree over here now. Just a second. Watch, because you're right in front of the tree. I can see it. OK, give me a little side light so I can find the tree. OK, ahh...

SGT BUSTINZA: Alpha 2 security...

LT COLONEL HALT: I've lost the tree.

LT COLONEL HALT: OK stop! Stop! Light off. Hey, this is eerie.

MASTER SGT BALL: Why don't you do the pods spots...

LT COLONEL HALT: This is strange! Hey, does anyone wanna look at the spots on the ground? Whoops! Watch you don't step...

BACKGROUND: Five beeps from a vehicle arriving on the scene.

LT COLONEL HALT: ... you're walking all over them. OK, let's step back and don't walk all over em. Come back here - somebody and put a beam on em. You're gonna have to be back about ten, fifteen feet. You see it ...

LT ENGLUND: OK fine...

LT COLONEL HALT: OK, lights off.

LT COLONEL HALT: What do you think about the spot?

LT COLONEL HALT: Yeah.

LT COLONEL HALT: ... ready at the first spot? OK, that's what we'll call spot number three. Let's go in the back corner and get spot number one. Spot number one, here's spot number one right there, spot number one right there. Do you need some light? There it is right here. ... you focused?

SGT NEVILLES: Focused.

LT COLONEL HALT: OK... looking at spot number one through the starlight scope.

LT ENGLUND: Picking up a slight increase in light as I go over it.

LT COLONEL HALT: Slight increase in light in spot number one. Let's go look at spot number two. Spot number two's right over here. Right here, see it?

LT ENGLUND:... Slight increase.

LT COLONEL HALT: OK, get focused on it. Tell me when, OK lights on. Let's see what we get on it.

LT ENGLUND: Slight increase.

LT COLONEL HALT: Just a slight increase?

LT ENGLUND: Try the center.

LT COLONEL HALT: The center spot, not really center, slightly off center. It's right there.

LT ENGLUND: Right here.

LT COLONEL HALT: OK, we're gonna get your reading on it right there.

LT ENGLUND: OK.

LT COLONEL HALT: Tell me when you're ready.

LT ENGLUND: Ready.

LT COLONEL HALT: OK lights on. It's the center spot we're looking at now; almost the center.

LT ENGLUND: Getting a slight increase.

LT COLONEL HALT: Slight increase there. This is slightly off center toward the err... one - two side. It's er... some type of abrasion or something in the ground were the pine needles are pushed back were we get a high radiact... err high reading about a deflection of er, two to three, maybe four, depending on the point of it.

LT ENGLUND: Someone wanna check it?

SGT NEVILLES: Yes.

LT COLONEL HALT: Are you sure there's a positive after effect? SGT NEVILLES: Yes, there is, definitely. That's on the center spot, there is an after effect.

LT ENGLUND: What does that mean?

SGT NEVILLES: It means that when the lights are turned off, once we all focused in, allowed time for the eyes to adjust, we are getting an indication of heat source coming out of that center spot... as err... which will show up on the ...

LT COLONEL HALT: Heat or some form of energy, it's hardly heat at this stage of the game.

SGT NEVILLES: But it is still heat...

LT COLONEL HALT: Looking directly overhead, one can see an opening in the trees, plus some freshly broken pine branches on the ground underneath. Looks like some of them came off about fifteen to twenty feet up. Some small branches about inch or less in diameter.

LT COLONEL HALT: 01.48. We're hearing some strange sounds out of the farmers...

SGT NEVILLES: Twenty eight... seven...

LT COLONEL HALT: ... barnyard animals. They're very very active and making an awful lot of noise.

SGT NEVILLES: ... definite pigmentation...

LT COLONEL HALT: You saw a light? Slow down. Where, where?

SGT NEVILLES: Right on this position here. Straight ahead in between the trees...

LT ENGLUND: There it is again... beginning of the gap... right there

SGT NEVILLES: It throw the hell off my flashlight there.

LT COLONEL HALT: Hey I see it too. What is it?

SGT NEVILLES: We don't know sir.

LT COLONEL HALT: OK, it's a strange small red light, looks to be out maybe a quarter - half mile, maybe further out. I'm gonna switch off for a...

LT COLONEL HALT: The light is gone now. It was approximately 120 degrees from the site.

SGT NEVILLES: It's back again.

LT COLONEL HALT: Is it back again?

SGT NEVILLES: Yes sir.

LT COLONEL HALT: Well douse flashlights then. Let's go back to the edge of the clearing then, so we can get a better look at it. See if you can get the starscope on it. The light's still there and all the barnyard animals have gotten quiet now. We're heading about 110 -120 degrees from the site, out through the clearing now. Still getting a reading on the meter about 2 clicks. Needles jumped 3-4 clicks getting stronger.

SGT NEVILLES: Now it's stopped. Now it's coming up. Hold on, here we go. Now it's coming up about approximately 4 foot off the ground. The compass has 110 degrees.

LT COLONEL HALT: Right, I just turned the meter off. Better say that again, about 4 feet off the ground, about a 110 degrees, getting the reading of about 4 clicks.

SERGEANT NEVILLES: Yes sir... Cough; excuse me, now it's died.

LT COLONEL HALT: I ... I think it's something here on the ground. I think it's something... very large...

SGT NEVILLES: ... a tree right over...

LT COLONEL HALT: We just bumped into the first light that we've seen. We're about a 150 -200 yards from the site. Everything else is just deathly calm. There's no doubt about it, there's some kind of strange flashing red light ahead.

SGT NEVILLES: Yeah, It's yellow.

LT COLONEL HALT: I saw a yellow tinge in it too. Weird. It appears to be making a little bit this way?

SGT NEVILLES: Yes sir.

LT COLONEL HALT: It's brighter than it has been...It's coming this way. It's definitely coming this way.

MASTER SERGEANT BALL: Pieces are shooting off.

LT COLONEL HALT: Pieces of it are shooting off.

MASTER SERGEANT BALL: at about 11 o clock...

LT COLONEL HALT: There's no doubt about it; this is weird.

MASTER SGT BALL: Look to the left

SGT NEVILLES: There's two lights. One light to the right and one light to the left.

LT COLONEL HALT: Keep your flash light off. There's something very very strange. Check the headset out see if it gets any stronger. Give us...

SGT NEVILLES: OK, I have an indication that this is a vague reading too

LT COLONEL HALT: A vague reading?

SGT NEVILLES: The cable has been removed

LT COLONEL HALT: OK... pieces are falling off it again

MASTER SERGEANT BALL: It just moved to the right... went off to the right

LT COLONEL HALT: Yeah ... strange, Auh.

LT ENGLUND: Went off to the right.

LT COLONEL HALT: Strange. Ahhh. One again left. Let's approach the edge of the woods at that point. Can we do without lights? Let's do it carefully, come on.. OK we're looking at the thing, we're probably about 2-3 hundred yards away. It looks like an eye winking at you, it's still moving from side to side and when we put the starscope on it, it's sort of a hollow center right, a dark center, it's...

LT ENGLUND: It's like a pupil...

LT COLONEL HALT: It's like the pupil of an eye looking at you, winking . ... and the flash is so bright to the starscope, that err... it almost burns your eye.

LT COLONEL HALT: We've passed the farmer's house and are crossing the next field and we now have multiple sightings of up to five lights with a similar shape and all, but they seem steady rather than pulsating a glow with a red flash. We've just crossed the creek...

LT ENGLUND: Here we go...

LT COLONEL HALT: What kinda readings are we getting now? We're getting three good clicks on the meteor and we're seeing strange lights in the sky.

LT COLONEL HALT: 2.44: We're at the far side of the farmers, the second farmers field and made sighting again about 110 degrees. This looks clear out to the coast. It's right on the horizon. Moves about a bit and flashes from time to time. Still steady and red in color. Also, after negative readings in the field, we're picking up slight readings 4-5 clicks now on the meter.

LT COLONEL HALT: 3.05: We see strange err, strobe like flashes to the err ... almost sporadic, but there's definitely something there, some kind of phenomena. 3.05: At about err... 10 degrees horizon err directly north, we got two strange objects, err ...half moon shape, dancing about with colored lights on them. but err. it has to be about 5-10 miles out, maybe less. The half moons have now turned into full circles as though there was an eclipse or something there for a minute or two.

LT COLONEL HALT: 3.15: Now we've got an object about ten degrees directly south...

SGT NEVILLES: There's one to the left.

LT COLONEL HALT: 10 degrees off the horizon, and the ones to the north are moving, one's moving away from us.

SGT NEVILLES: It's moving out fast.

LT COLONEL HALT: They're moving out fast.

MASTER SGT BALL: There's one on the right heading away too.

LT COLONEL HALT: Yeah, they're both heading north. Hey, here he comes from the south; he's coming in toward us now.

MASTER SERGEANT BALL: Shit.

LT COLONEL HALT: Now were observing what appears to be a beam coming down to the ground.

MASTER SGT BALL: Look at the colors... shit

LT COLONEL HALT: This is unreal.

LT COLONEL HALT: 3.30: And the objects are still in the sky, although the one to the south looks like it's loosing a little bit of altitude. We're turning around and heading back toward the base. The object to the sou... the object to the south is still beaming down lights to the ground.

LT COLONEL HALT: 0:400 Hours one object still hovering over the Woodbridge base at about 5-10 degrees off the horizon. Still moving erratic and similar lights beaming down as earlier.

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Senior UK defence staff have in the past issued orders to shoot down suspected UFO's over the skies of the united kingdom confirms the ex MoD UFO files specialist Nick Pope.

It is little surprise however that our airborne defence machinery provided by the Royal Air Force (RAF) have to date failed in their attempts to down Alien craft given what many to believe is far superior technology than offered by our jet engined warriors.

This new revelation in terms of UFO activity in the UK and the governments knowledge of it comes direct from the outspoken UFO supporter Nick Pope whom stated 'We know of cases where the order has been given to shoot down — with little effect to the UFO,'. 'Firing at UFOs was not automatic but happens when something in our airspace is deemed to be a threat' he said.

The British public however are probably never to know the true details of any of these UFO incidents given the term 'threat' used renders any case files unobtainable for fear of breaching national security and as a consequence cannot be released under the freedom of information act (FOIA). Mr Pope further commented "'The public won’t know unless it comes down in a heavily-populated area".

Mr Pope confirmed that in the case of UFOs, whether the object is causing a threat is very much a (pilot’s) judgment call,'. 'The rules of engagement were drawn up after dozens of encounters with unidentified craft and there was a faction in the MoD who said "We want to shoot down a UFO and that will resolve the issue one way or another'.' He further claimed that 'witnesses had given statements about dozens of near-misses between UFOs and planes, RAF jets and police helicopters.

The MoD has refused to provide any comment upon Mr Pope's comments and will undoubtedly remain silent in the future. That is, until one of these reported UFO crafts are actually bought down in a large and public display which will undeniably prove the existence of alien life on other planets. This will of course leave the governments in our world wondering how to spin it positively for the furtherance of mankind.

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This video is an unknown object flying past the Washington Monument which some have come speculate is a UFO flying over President Obama's inauguration. Given the tight security of the event which included a total lock down on all flights in and around Washington DC has led some to conclude that the object clearly was not an aircraft.

Early explanations give a Bat or large bird as bait, however given the speed and size of the craft our view is it clearly is not an animal in flight. Nick Pope the once MoD UFO files analyst for the UK government has commented that “We know it is not an aircraft because a strict no-fly zone was imposed over the area. “It seems to have been going a little bit too fast for any type of bird.”

Given the clear speed of the UFO and it's flight path (it doesn't appear to deviate from a straight flight path) and the size using the monument for reference it does indeed at this time to be fair to classify this as a UFO. Perhaps our earlier news yesterday around Obama's intention to start to release once classified UFO Alien documents is being felt across all regions of the globe and not just our little planet earth....

On his first full day as President, Barack Obama issued two Executive Orders and three Presidential Memorandum that will enbark upon an era of transparent and Open Government. The White House Office of the Press Secretary released a statement outlining the fundamental changes which will be implemented by the Obama administration.

Most exciting from a UFO researchers view is the Presidential memorandum on the Freedom of Information Act, which will effectively make it easier for individuals and organisations to obtain access to declassifed documents pertaining UFO sightings and even alien sightings all of which under the George W Bush administration have to date refused to declassify.

The specifics of the Presidential memorandum in relation to the release of classified UFO files states; "all members of his administration to operate under principles of openness, transparency and of engaging citizens with their government. To implement these principles and make them concrete, the Memorandum on Transparency instructs three senior officials to produce an Open Government Directive within 120 days directing specific actions to implement the principles in the Memorandum. And the Memorandum on FOIA instructs the Attorney General to in that same time period issue new guidelines to the government implementing those same principles of openness and transparency in the FOIA context.

If President Obama and his new administration keeps true to their word on this memorandum it could prove to be a momentous time in terms of the flow of information. What knowledge the US government has about the presence of alien life visiting our planet and indeed many hundreds of UFO cases that the public have been aware of could well be know over the coming years.

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In our first part of the alledged alien landing at the Bentwaters RAF Woodbridge base in Rendlesham Forest we looked at the original report filed by Lt Colonel Charles Halt of the united states air force.

In this report, the Colonel suggested that on the 28th December 1981 he and other USAF personnel witnessed an alien craft landing in the Rendlesham Forest woods just outside the military base. In this installment of the Rendlesham Forest incident we will dissect this report further.

Contrary to the dates provided on the report it would appear that the initial event actually took place on the night of the 26th December 1980. Local Suffolk Police were called to the scene at 4.11am on the 26th December 1980 to view for themselves the unidentified lights hovering in the sky and forest of Rendlesham. The police report on record suggests that nothing of significance was observed at the time other than the lights emanating from the local Orfordness light house.

A further visit to the site from the local Suffolk Police was undertaken on the morning of the 27th December to observe the 'landing marks' sighted within the forest itself. It is reported that the officers attending assumed the three depressions in the ground to have been caused by Rabbits.

The conflicting dates recorded by that of Colonel Charles Halt and the local Police force bear further scrutiny. You would be forgiven for thinking that a highky ranked Lt. Colonel in the USAF would be in a position to correctly identify dates in which arguably a significant event in his life was observed. However, in this case it appears not. This raises further questions regarding the motives for inputting the incorrect dates of the sightings.

It is noted that on the 26th December 1981 the overall commander of the Woodbridge base, commander Gordon Williams was present on the 26th and some references to himself and others confiscating evidence obtained at the site is known. Several portable cameras were being used by witnesses of the event and it is understood that this evidence along with soil samples taken from the landing site were also confiscated by Gordon Williams.

To surmise for a moment upon these conflicting dates; could the reason behind these statistical errors be due to some form of disinformation to render reliable evidence inadmissible?

Consider this;

Investigation of the released MoD files show that inquiries around the radar reports of the 27th & 28th of December 1980 drew a blank in terms of confirmed sightings of unidentified flying objects. It is now however known that the dates from which this information was requested are now incorrect meaning that they (the MoD) were looking at the wrong information.

As I say perhaps the dates were deliberately changed to ensure that any British investigation focused on the wrong time frame....

More analysis and comment to come in part 3 of the Rendlesham Forest UFO case.

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The UK has been dominated by strange orange UFO lights across our skies for sometime now and following some dramatic video captured by a Sussex Police helicopter in June 2008 further witness sightings of these amazing UFO lights continue to surface.

Most recently, on the 11th January 2009 a witness from Horsham, West Sussex stated "We were just getting out of the car when we noticed an orange flickering orb moving at quite a speed above us".

"There was no sound and no other lights so it was definitely not a helicopter or plane. It looked like it was at same height as the commercial airlines are before they come into land at Gatwick Airport and it just disappeared into the distance."

A further similar sighting again in the West Sussex area of the UK in December 08 stated that " I looked up in the sky to the east and saw a glowing orange/reddish oval shaped light which separated into two halves with one falling to earth whilst the other remained in the sky".

"After observing the UFO for approximately 2 minutes I took my phone to take a picture then went to view it only to see nothing came out on it, looked up again but the light had completely disappeared".

Some interesting observations from eye witnesses around this now common UFO sighting. UFO De bunkers have suggested that these strange lights are Chinese Lanterns which in some cases would explain the witnesses testimony however, looking at the footage shot by the Police Helicopter we cannot subscribe to this given the speed and maneuverability of the object filmed.

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Onlookers at a picturesque golf club on the welsh borders were sure they witnessed an alien sighting this week. Witnesses stated that the UFO appeared to hover over the skies above the landscape for nearly an hour.

Fortunately, a local resident whom was working at the golf club had her camera handy and took this snap of the UFO sighting.

However, this amazing UFO picture tells us another story. Met Office forecaster Bob Syvret said the unusual formation is a “lee wave”, which can be popular with gliders because they can help them to gain altitude or fly long distances.

“Lee waves are formed near mountain ranges, when the wind and atmosphere is right and it is usually sunny. The Dyfi Estuary would be a perfect location for one, although it is likely it would have actually been formed in Ireland.”.

Certainly must have been a unique experience for those present to witness this natural anomoly however, it just shows you how easy it is to misinterpret UFOs in the sky for something else entirely...

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Following the UK Governments recent release of previously classified UFO documents by the ministry of defense (MoD) in October 2008, we have been carefully pouring over these sometimes complex and difficult documents to provide you with some interesting incidents in and around the UK.

In this case, on the 17th June 1991, Dan Air flight from London Gatwick to Hamburg experienced a strange UFO outside the plane during the flights climb at around 4000 ft. Four eyewitness confirmed the sighting.

This event was recorded formally by the Captain of the flight and handed to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) given the severity of the sighting. The captains narrative explains;

"Whilst climbing out of Gatwick heading towards Detling Vor on the initial stage of the Clacton departure - 4 passengers saw a wingless projectile pass below and to the left (north) of the aircraft. However from the description offered it would appear that the object was flying level at an altitude of between 4000 and 5000ft just above the main cloud tops. I am unable to ascertain the size and direction of flight of the object. However it would seem to have passed fairly close by as the passengers were able to see it quite clearly."

The captain of the flight further stated "The occurrence was reported to and discussed with Gatwick air traffic control (ATC) who were unaware of anything unusual occurring at that time. I do not believe that the passengers involved made the story up as they appeared concerned by the sighting and insisted in notifying us (the flight deck crew) before disembarking".

One of the concerned passengers whom sighted the craft took down some brief notes including a small picture and direction of the object (see picture).

Given the obvious close proximity of the UFO to the flight a 'near miss' report had to filed and properly investigated. From the MoD released files, there is no evidence to suggest that any further investigation of the event was conducted and no further explanations are offered within the documents.

This is certainly a classic unexplained UFO incident over the skies of the south coast of England and one which as yet remains unanswered.

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Reports coming out of Suffolk's Louth Leader today have indicated a sighting of a Donut shaped UFO craft just days before the Conisholme wind turbine crash.

Brian Lee, 55, from neighboring Saltfleet was driving along Billings Gate road in South Somercotes at 4.30pm on December 9. He stopped his car to take some pictures of a dramatic sunset on his mobile phone which he duly captured. Following analysis of the pictures upon his return home, the discovery of the unusual shaped object in the sky backdropped by the dramatic sunset he intended to capture.

He commented to the Louth Leader: "I looked at my phone and just saw this donut-shaped thing in the sky; I didn't know what to think it was."

We have enhanced the image in only brightness and contrast to better see the donut shaped craft but as you can see the image is quite striking in nature and appears to be failry significant in size using the car windshield as reference.

Pictures courtesy of the Louth Leader

Mr Lee, further commented: "I've sat on this photo for a while because I just didn't know what to think about it".

Meanwhile, the wind turbine farm owners Ecotricity have today commented that it was "narrowing down the options" and was closer to an understanding, but added: "we're not there yet".

Ecotricity has suggested a number of possible causes for the damage, including a possible collision. But it also said that lightning or some kind of material, design or maintenance failure was a more likely cause.

Dale Vince, Ecotricity managing director, said today that there was still "no evidence" of a collision, and that if something had collided with the turbine there should be some debris on the ground and an exchange of materials between the two objects involved in the collision. Once the bent blade is removed, more light could be shed on the matter, but added: "It is more than likely, as many have suggested, that the fallen blade hit and broke the second blade on the way down."

It therefore seems that the analysis of the remaining bent turbine blade will be telling in the investigation. Given an impact of some kind has occurred it would be logical to assume that evidence of the impact material would be present on the blade itself.

We understand that the company has now started work to rebuild the damaged turbine, with all three blades and the central hub on the Enercon turbine being completely replaced. Heavy lifting equipment is currently located at the Fen Farm site ready to instigate the repairs. The forensic investigation of the turbine wreckage is currently being carried out in Germany and is ongoing.

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Following the scoop unearthed by the Louth Leader last week regarding the strange sightings of UFO's shortly before and after the now infamous Wind Turbine crash an additional witness has come forward with interesting testimony as reported by the Louth Leader yesterday (13th Jan).

Rebecca Hodgson of Louth was tending to her horse in stables just off London Road, Louth on Saturday January 3rd - the night before the 65 ft blade fell from the turbine in Conisholme.

Rebecca noticed that her horse was spooked by a 'flashing orange ball' in the sky which she described as a bright orange light which circled above the turbines. She said: "It was really bright and glowing, it went dimmer and then moved across horizontally".

Alarmed by her horse's reaction, Rebecca alerted her mother and sister by shouting "there was a UFO in the sky". Rebecca commented, "Animals are more susceptible to things like that. Obviously we get a lot of airplanes flying over but she never normally gets bothered by them. I instantly thought it was strange".

This of course is not the only sighting prior to the events of Sunday 4th January, several witnesses have stated that an 'orange' light was seen in and around the wind turbine farm and some accounts also document the dubbed 'Octopus UFO' in which tentacles of light were seen being omitted from a strange light in the sky.

We continue to await news from the German forensic team currently studying the alleged UFO crash debris and a spokesperson from the wind farm company, Ecotricity said: "hopefully we will get the results in by the end of the week – if there is a rational answer out there, we will find it".

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Recent reports in the press yesterday have stated that security guards and dog patrols have been employed at the alleged UFO Alien crash site at Conisholme wind farm in Lincolnshire.

The reasoning behind the employment of security around the site lays in Ecotricity's concerns around would-be UFO hunters scouring the site for missed fragments of debris. Nick Pope, former MoD operative involved in the investigation of the UK's UFO sightings has commented that "There may be something they don't want people to see".

As we commented earlier this week one possible explanation around the causes of the turbine blade damage may be some form of craft impacting the blade. Mr Pope infers that it is possible a secret military aircraft such as a stealth bomber might have hit the turbine during a test flight, or that the turbine blade simply fell off, damaging the other one in the process.

Mr Pope commented: "If a stealth aircraft struck the turbine, it may be made of some material which is itself top secret."

Forensic tests of the damaged turbine blade and other "foreign debris" collected at the site are ongoing in Germany. Further updates to follow.

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