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muriel_volestrangler

(101,361 posts)
Mon Jan 14, 2019, 02:13 PM Jan 2019

Rendlesham Forest UFO sightings 'were SAS revenge prank' - claim

The famous Rendlesham Forest UFO ‘sightings’ were actually down to British soldiers getting their own back on the Americans, a new theory claims.
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He claims SAS soldiers who parachuted into the American base to test their defences were embarrassed at being caught and imprisoned for 18 hours where they were subjected to intense questioning by US personnel, who called them unidentified ‘aliens’.
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The elite British unit got its own back by rigging lights and coloured flares in the forest close to the air base, using black helium balloons and remote controlled kites to carry material through the sky.

The movement attracted the attention of the American forces, notably the deputy base commander Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt who was called to the incident by sentries who had noticed the lights.

https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/raf-woodbridge-ufo-sighting-new-theory-1-5835938

Halt is standing by his belief that it really was "UFOs". There's no evidence for the new claim, of course, but it sounds believable to me. This was an incident with several people saying they saw significant things, who had no reason at the time to make it up. But someone doing it all to fool them sounds credible. Everything they saw, I think, was pretty much at ground level - it didn't involve anything flying higher than could be done with balloons or kites.
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Rendlesham Forest UFO sightings 'were SAS revenge prank' - claim (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Jan 2019 OP
Anyone who's familiar with Jim Penniston's account of the incident... ADX Jan 2019 #1
I won't venture an opinion flotsam Jan 2019 #2
 

ADX

(1,622 posts)
1. Anyone who's familiar with Jim Penniston's account of the incident...
Mon Jan 14, 2019, 02:45 PM
Jan 2019

...knows that this latest attempt to explain it is complete and total bullshit.

The man actually touched the craft; it wasn't lights, colored flares or remote-controlled kites...

flotsam

(3,268 posts)
2. I won't venture an opinion
Mon Jan 14, 2019, 03:59 PM
Jan 2019

But remote controlled black kites and helium balloons to make a controlled descent and then lift off and disappear? I don't know if that tech works now and really doubt it existed 38 years (1980) ago...

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