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"You
had a number of US Air Force personnel at a very important base
in Suffolk having seen a structured craft moving through Rendlesham
Forest.
"It
almost appeared to be leading them on a merry chase through the
woods.
"My conclusions: Type of craft: unknown. Origin: unknown. Purpose
of craft: unknown I guess."
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Ministry of Defence
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There
is uncertaintly as to whether this is proof of an actual alien encounter
and an official cover up.
Sceptics
say that the eyewitness accounts differ widely and contradict each
other - and some tales have grown in the telling since 1980.
In his memo to the MOD, Lt Col Halt even seems to have got the date
of the first sightings wrong.
The
story has since been thoroughly re-examined and some plausible explanations
have emerged:-
Close
by is a lighthouse which strobes brightly into the forest at low
level.
There was a brilliant meteor over southern England at the exact
same time.
The
upper stage rocket of a Soviet satellite, Cosmos 749, had broken
up on re-entry.
One star was reported as being exceptionally bright between Christmas
and New Year.
Could the mysterious object have been one of the earliest trials
of the Stealth bomber?
Could it have been a US spy satellite dropped on Suffolk by mistake?
On
the ground, the "triangular" marks left at the landing site could
simply be rabbit diggings and as for the radiation spikes, the readings
taken were so low, they are insignificant.
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