Ruud Streefkerk

In this forest in Suffolk, England, a strange tree-trunk struck me, not knowing that a special incident took place here. The Rendlesham Forest incident was a reported sighting from the nearby RAF Woodbridge Military Base, which was used by the US Air Force at the time. On December 26 1980, around 3:00 a.m., a military security patrol saw unexplained lights descending into this nearby forest. The five soldiers initially thought it was a crashed plane, but when they entered the forest to examine it, it turned out to be a glowing craft with a metallic appearance and colored lights. When they tried to approach the object, it seemed to move through the trees. They followed it for almost an hour through the forest and across a field, until it took off at phenomenal speed. Animals on a nearby farm made a hell of a noise. Their Colonel Charles Halt made an official report of it. In addition to a flashing light in the east, according to Halt's memo, three star-like lights were seen in the sky, the brightest of which seemed to emit a stream of light from time to time. This observation coincided with the appearance of a bright fireball over southern England, attributed by astronomers to a piece of falling debris from space. The story was questioned by authorities, leading to allegations of a cover-up, as part of a larger pattern of information-suppression related to UFO’s. In any case, I thought this was a strangely shaped dead tree.