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New Rendlesham UFO documentary to premiere at film festival

By T.K. Randall
June 5, 2025 · Comment icon 6 comments
Rendlesham
Rendlesham Forest remains shrouded in mystery. Image Credit: YouTube / Wyrd Kingdom Pictures
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.



Source: BBC News | Comments (6)




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Comment icon #1 Posted by Robotic Jew 1 day ago
This is one of those cases that used to interest me but no longer does. I have no doubt that SOMETHING was seen but the story seems to get more and more outlandish the longer it goes on. They lost me when they touched the object and "downloaded" information or whatever from it. 
Comment icon #2 Posted by Cho Jinn 1 day ago
This, combined with utterly-inane attempts to explain the events as pedestrian observations (e.g., "it was a lighthouse", or "it was a a brown dog"; just call the guy a liar and be done with it) have turned this event into quite the morass.
Comment icon #3 Posted by Essan 1 day ago
It wasn't a brown dog, but some of what was reported certainly was just a lighthouse - as, indeed, was reported to be the case at the time (so who is accusing who of lying?   )     Biggest mystery is why anyone ever thought that the initial lights seen on the forest floor were from an unidentified flying object
Comment icon #4 Posted by Essan 1 day ago
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).
Comment icon #5 Posted by Guyver 24 hours ago
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.
Comment icon #6 Posted by Cho Jinn 21 hours ago
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!".


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