Something
important just came up here. This is the
first time that I have explicitly seen the claim that our UFO phenomenon is
from our future. This is extremely
important. Much of the UFO data works
best as direct visitations from the future rather than imagining an extensive
alien presence. It had always been one
of my standing conjectures along with the conventional alien explanation that
is considered plausible but unsupported.
Suddenly I have solid support.
Such a
scenario fits well with the classic ET with his special eyes. This is just what I would expect from a space
engineered human. They are also the most
populous. Thus the claim that ET is
humanity from the future is no surprise.
Other alien configurations also appear as plausible off takes from
humanities genome.
Creditable
people have stepped up here and we need to listen to them.
Why I
believe aliens landed in a Suffolk forest:
No,
Nick Pope isn't a UFO fantasist, he's an ex-Ministry of Defence expert with a
compelling dossier of evidence
MoD
expert has worked with the two closest witnesses - both servicemen - of the
unexplained phenomenon in 1980
One
recalls seeing a metal craft that could travel at 'impossible' speed
Radiation
levels in the area were measured at well above the norm
The
two witnesses wrote logs about the incident which they claim were later
disappeared as part of a cover-up
Staff
Sergeant Jim Penniston touched the craft and claims to have 'downloaded' a
message from the future in binary code
The
'ship' was seen on three consecutive nights, including by the officer who was
second-in-command of the base
By TONY RENNELL
PUBLISHED: 21:05 GMT, 18 April
2014 | UPDATED: 04:24 GMT, 19 April 2014
Something eerie stirred in the Suffolk
forest. Bright lights were flashing red, blue, white and yellow, piercing the
darkness just beyond the perimeter of the U.S. Air Force base. Airman John
Burroughs, on patrol in the early hours, went to investigate, the hairs on his
arms standing on end with the static electricity that suddenly filled the air,
his radio mysteriously malfunctioning.
Ahead, a small clearing among the trees
shone as bright as day . . .
And so began a mystery that has lasted a
third of a century, the truth of what took place remaining as elusive now as it
was on that Boxing Day in 1980. Did an alien space ship land, as the world’s
UFO-hunters, ET-watchers and X-Files fans have always been desperate to
believe?
Nick Pope argues in his book that the
'Rendlesham Forest Incident' begs more questions than the establishment has so
far answered
Or, this being a strategic base for American
front-line fighter planes, was there an accident involving some clandestine
Cold War super-weapon, ruthlessly covered up by the military? Or was that
strange glow just a trick of light and atmospherics from the beam of a
lighthouse on the East Coast a few miles away? Or a case of mass hysteria,
perhaps? Or just a Christmas hoax by bored American servicemen a long way from
home?
Flights of fancy run wild in any direction
you want when it comes to what history has dubbed the Rendlesham Forest
Incident — and has done since 1983 when the News Of The World revealed the
mysterious happenings in a front-page story headlined ‘UFO lands in Suffolk —
and it’s official’ and quoted a top-secret report from one of the base commanders
as its source.
Official denials and obfuscation followed.
‘Fabrication,’ screamed the Ministry of Defence. ‘Nothing of defence interest
in the alleged sightings. No question of any contact with “alien beings”.’
A local forester put forward the lighthouse
theory, which was latched onto by other newspapers eager to rubbish a rival’s
scoop.
And so the whole affair descended into a
chaos of claim and counter-claim — Close Encounter fanatics on one side,
sceptics on the other, and the twain never likely to meet.
[ SOP for
disinformation ]
Even Lt. Col. Charles Halt, the
second-in-command at the American airforce base, admitted to seeing the
unexplained craft
But now a new book tries to make a sober,
sensation-free assessment of the evidence and trace a path through the
undergrowth of intrigue, speculation and downright lies that bedevil this
touchiest of subjects.
Author, Nick Pope, has credentials — he
was for three years in the Nineties the civil servant in charge of a Ministry
of Defence unit investigating ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomena’, its
preferred term for UFOs. He learned to respect the unexplained and not dismiss
it out of hand.
He collaborated with two of the closest
witnesses to what happened at Rendlesham — Airman Burroughs and his immediate
superior in 1980, Staff Sergeant Jim Penniston. Both are retired from the
military but still troubled by what they experienced.
Their memories of the scene in the forest
are different. In that clearing suddenly bursting with a strange light,
Burroughs was engulfed in a beam and stood motionless. Afterwards, he could
remember nothing.
But Penniston says he made out a small
triangular metallic craft 10ft high, either hovering above the ground or
resting on tripod-like legs.
It had a bank of blue lights on one side and
a bright white light on top. He took photographs (which were fogged when
developed) and sketched the craft in his notebook before stepping into what
he calls ‘the bubble field’ — an area of stillness and silence immediately
around it where time seemed to stop.
His heart was pounding with fear, he says,
but he stretched his hand forward to touch its smooth surface. His fingers
skimmed across several rows of strange symbols and hieroglyphics etched in the
metal — ‘like nothing I have ever seen before, no aircraft marking, or no
writing that I can identify’. He was transfixed.
After a while, he claims, he pulled his
hand away, stood back and watched in amazement as the craft slowly lifted off
the ground, manoeuvred slowly up through the trees and then accelerated away in
an instant into the night sky. In his notebook, he recorded the speed as
simply ‘impossible’.
Meanwhile, on the ground he and Burroughs —
now brought to his senses — found a triangle of indentations where the craft
had stood. Around them, branches were snapped off trees it had passed when
landing and taking off. Later, men with Geiger counters picked up radioactive
readings way above the norm.
Back at base, the two men wrote out logs of
what had happened, using, on advice from superiors, the phrase ‘unexplained
lights’ rather than UFO. Those logs later disappeared — removed, the men
believe, as part of an operation to bury all evidence of these strange
occurrences.
But Penniston, it transpires, kept to
himself one staggering aspect of his encounter. When he touched the craft
and his hand strayed to one particular symbol — a circle with a triangle inside
— sequences of ones and zeroes mysteriously flashed into his brain in what he
describes as a ‘telepathic download’. When de-briefed, he said nothing
about this, fearing that, if he did, he would be declared unfit for duty. But,
in bed at home, he could not sleep for all the buzzing of zeroes and ones in
his head: ‘Imprinted in my mind like a hot branding iron.’
He found he could stop whatever activity
had taken over his mind only by writing down the sequences in his notebook,
scribbling out for three-quarters of an hour pages of figures that made no
sense.
And once finished, they vanished from his mind — for 14 years. It was in 1994, after retiring, that he had sleep problems and sought help from a hypnotherapist. Under hypnosis, the events returned, along with the numbers, and now he reckoned he knew their significance.
They were a message, in binary code, for
mankind from somewhere. He sought help from code-breakers and passed over to
them those lists of ones and zeroes he had compiled back in 1980.
After intensive study, they suggested it
represented a message, part of which read in English: ‘Exploration of humanity.
Continuous for planetary advance.’
Under hypnosis, Penniston had said
something inexplicable: ‘They are time travellers — they are us.’
An extraordinary possibility seized his mind: what had been downloaded into his head from the craft in the forest was a message, but one from, of all places, the future. The mysterious Rendlesham UFO was not from another planet but from another time.
Such an idea stretches credibility. Pope
himself is uncertain how to evaluate it.
Were the numbers in Penniston’s head real or
imagined? And what of the ‘message’ itself, simultaneously profound and banal
and reeking of New Age nonsense.
‘Is all this just wishful thinking?’ Pope
asks. ‘Or is there a more complex message hidden deeper within the obvious
one?’ He admits defeat. ‘I have no answers here.’
On other areas of the Rendlesham story he
feels able to come to confident conclusions. That this was not a hoax, not a
lighthouse beam, not a Soviet spy plane, but a true visitation, he does not
doubt.
The weight of evidence, he insists, is too
compelling. The UFO was seen on three consecutive nights by dozens of highly
trained military personnel, none of whom had any history of hysteria or
penchant for UFO-chasing. On the second occasion those who ventured into the
forest included the second-in-command at the base, Lt Col Charles Halt.
It was his official report that fell into
the hands of the News Of The World and formed part of its sensational scoop in
1983.
Halt never deviated from what he first said
he saw that night when he was told ‘the UFO’s back’ and went to confront it.
From his Jeep he witnessed: ‘A light that looked like a large eye, red in
colour, moving through the trees.
‘This object began dripping something that
looked like molten metal. A short while later it broke into several smaller,
white objects which flew away in all directions.
‘A similar object was seen in the southern
sky. It was round and, at one point, it came toward us at a very high speed. It
stopped overhead and sent down a small pencil-like beam, like a laser beam.
That illuminated the ground about ten feet
from us and we just stood there in awe.
‘This object then moved back towards [the
base] and continued to send down beams of light, at one point near the Weapons
Storage Area. I have no idea what it was we saw. But I do know that it was
under intelligent control.’
Years later, as the controversy refused to
die down despite official denials from Whitehall and Washington and his own
account being called into question, Halt signed a defiantly clear-cut
affidavit.
‘I believe the objects I saw at close quarter were extraterrestrial in origin and that the security services of both the U.S. and the UK have attempted — then and now — to subvert the significance of what occurred at Rendlesham Forest by the use of disinformation.’
To the analyst Pope, eye-witness evidence
from a man of such seniority has to be taken at face value.
Over 100,000 words, Pope puts together a
rationally argued case that the world’s most compelling UFO encounter should be
taken seriously and not dismissed as fantasy fodder for the loony fringe.
He lists what he believes has been
established beyond doubt: ‘We know a UFO landed next to one of the most sensitive
military installations in the Nato alliance. We know the UFO was seen on three
consecutive nights by dozens of highly trained military personnel, including
the Deputy Base Commander.
‘We know light beams from the UFO struck the
ground just feet in front of the Deputy Base Commander and a party of men, and
that later, the UFO was seen firing light beams onto the base, particularly,
the Weapons Storage Area.
‘We know the UFO was tracked on radar. We
know there was physical trace evidence at the landing site, including damage
and scorch marks on the trees and higher-than-usual radiation levels.
‘We know that, though the U.S. government
will not acknowledge the incident occurred and maintains UFO sightings have not
been investigated since 1969, the Rendlesham incident was not only
investigated, but that a senior USAF general flew in to be briefed, and removed
evidence, without telling the UK government.
‘We know some of the key files and documents
that might have provided answers about what happened have apparently been
destroyed or lost in mysterious circumstances. We know that while the U.S. and
UK governments have consistently sought to downplay or ridicule the UFO
phenomenon, behind the scenes, the subject is taken extremely seriously.’
The crunch is this: why can’t the public be
told the truth about the Rendlesham Forest Incident? Why can’t witnesses such
as Burroughs and Penniston — whose lives were never the same afterwards — be
debriefed on what happened to them all those years ago?
One of the scandals of the mystery is that the
two former servicemen are now at an age when they need access to their military
medical records — and they can’t get them. Official requests are turned down on
the grounds the files are classified. Not even the threat of legal action
has succeeded in getting them released.
Pope is left to speculate whether there is a
sinister military element operating behind all this obsessive secrecy. Do UFOs
perhaps hold the key to some unknown technology that could result in weapons of
incalculable power?
Have the shutters come down on the
Rendlesham Incident to prevent some revelation so earth-shattering that the
powers-that-be would go to almost any length to prevent disclosure?
The personal accounts by Burroughs and
Penniston and Pope’s informed analysis throw up more questions than answers,
but it is hard to argue with their conclusion that someone knows more about
this than they are saying.
And until they open up — if they ever do —
the rest of us must remain in the dark about the true origin and meaning of
those bright flashing lights in a Suffolk forest.
Extracted from Encounter In Rendlesham
Forest by Nick Pope with John Burroughs and Jim Penniston, published by Thistle
Books on April 27. Available from Amazon.co.uk at £9.99 paperback and £3.99
e-book. © 2014 Nick Pope with John Burroughs and Jim Penniston.
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