The new documentary will explore the true story behind Britain's most famous UFO incident.
Entitled The Rendlesham UFO: The British Roswell, the film promises to "unravel shocking new insights" pertaining to this long-enduring case and to "create a conversation" about the mystery.
It will also feature exclusive interviews and brand new footage of mysterious phenomena at the forest.
"There is something unexplained there and there are so many credible witnesses to the event," said Mark Lee who co-directed the documentary alongside Roderick Godman.
"There had been sightings of UFOs leading up to the 1980 sighting, and going back in through the decades."
Narrated by William B. Davis who famously played the secretive cigarette smoking man in The X-Files, the documentary will premiere at the Raindance Film Festival in London on June 24th-25th.
The Rendlesham incident itself, which occurred in December 1980, saw US servicemen stationed at RAF Woodbridge in England witness a strange object over multiple nights.
Deputy base commander Lt Col Charles Halt and his men had gone out to investigate when the unidentified object was spotted descending into the nearby woods.
"Our security team observed a light that looked like a large eye, red in color, moving through the trees," Halt recalled.
"After a few minutes this object began dripping something that looked like molten metal. A short while later it broke into several smaller, white-colored objects which flew away in all directions."
In the years since, many have come to refer to the incident as "Britain's Roswell", but not everyone subscribes to the belief that the Rendlesham UFO was extraterrestrial in origin.
You can check out a trailer for the new documentary below.
That being one of many additional stories invented years afterwards - in fact almost all the well known "facts" were invented later and are completely at odds with what was actually reported by the original eye witnesses at the time (notwithstanding that it was some of the original eye witnesses who made up - or were encouraged to make up - these completely new and conflicting stories).
I’ve watched many of these documentaries over the years with interest…and one thing that I’ve noticed that is a common thing among military personnel is that they are often ordered, threatened, or intimidated to never speak of these events after they have reported them. Another common thread is that many times some military authority comes in to collect evidence, and that evidence is never seen again. It’s interesting and mysterious, IMO.
There is no shortage of documentaries (?) on this event, and at least some of them to memory reasonably dispense with a lighthouse or "bright stars" plausibly being involved at all (distance, direction, movement, etc.), or being an explanation for the entirety of what is described to have transpired over the day or two. I doubt there will ever be a satisfactory explanation. Other than "aliens, obviously!".
Here's food for thought regarding Rendlesham and nearby RAF Woodbridge airfield- WIKI- "a million trees were cut down in WW2 to make room for the base" So perhaps all that "energy" from the killed trees was somehow released and sloshes around the Woodbridge/Bentwaters/Rendlesham area, triggering 'UFO' phenomena?
Still on the "released tree energy" theme, perhaps it also had something to do with Travis Walton's allegedly true abduction experience in Arizona? He and his lumberjack mates had been cutting down trees all, so maybe the released energy said "it's payback time", and ambushed them on their way home? Here's a still about it from the film "Fire in the Sky"- And i'll toss a bit of ancient ure into the playpen for good measure- "I will punish you as your deeds deserve declares the Lord, I will kindle a fire in your forests that will consume everything around you" (Jeremiah 21:14) "The whole eart... [More]
A now-disused big fan-shaped military aerial array (blue arrow) stands on the coast east of Rendlesham forest, the site was used for all sorts of secret tests which perhaps also attracted the attention of UFO's?- https://www.bbc.co.uk/suffolk/content/articles/2006/05/24/orfordness_feature.shtml
A million trees in just a few square miles seems a little excessive. A million is a lot of trees. I question the validity of that statistic and I hope it is greatly overstated.
As with most old UFO legends, they tend to snowball over time. If you do serious research and read the original statements and reports it becomes quite clear. The events are all pretty mundane and not extraordinary at all. Roswell is a perfect example - what began as a tabloid report of a "flying disc" quickly turned into decades of alien stories, government cover-up theories, and pop culture obsession.
Thats just pseudoscience nonsense. Tree cutting doesnt release "energy" that triggers UFOs! The Rendlesham incident has been explained and debunked more times than most UFO cases as caused by misidentified lights and faulty witness memories... not to mention the outright fabrications. Linking it to environmental disruption like tree clearing is pure speculation without any scientific basis.
However many trees were cut down in WWII, most had only been planted back in the 1920s ....... Rendlesham and Tunstall Forest are (or were) basically just a big, modern, coniferous plantation - although species are more diverse now as indigenous, broadleaf, species were planted after the 1987 storm that brought down 10s of thousands of trees there (something which didn't seem to bother the space aliens at all).
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