UFORN @ Rendlesham/Bentwaters Conference 28 Dec

For those that dont know of the Renlesham Forrest Incident take a look at these threads:

uforesearchnetwork.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=casefiles&action=display&thread=90

uforesearchnetwork.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=1039

Here's an overview of whats taking place on Dec 28 2010:

The Rendlesham Forest Incident
December 1980 30th Anniversary Conference

John Burroughs & Jim Penniston

Talk for the first time in Suffolk at the Woodbridge Community Hall Tuesday December 28 at 6pm

Also attending is Linda Moulton Howe
Nick Pope (MoD ret)
Peter Robbins US based Investigative Writer

In December 1980 strange lights were seen by US Air Force personnel posted to the twin bases of RAF Bentwaters & Woodbridge. To this day they have never been explained. On the 30th anniversary, December 28 2010 two key eye-witnesses are back in Suffolk to re-count their stories. Airman 1st Class John Burroughs and SSgt Jim Penniston were 81st Security Police Officers patrolling the East Gate at RAF Woodbridge when they observed what they initially thought was an aircraft coming down in the forest. The rest is history.

All five are in Suffolk on Tuesday December 28 2010 at:

Woodbridge Community Hall.
Station Road
Woodbridge
Suffolk
IP12 4AU 6pm Start.

The guest speakers are looking for any civilian witnesses to the incident to show up that night.

The talk starts at 6pm. Tickets are £6.00 each. For ticket sales please PM or email me direct info@spaceportuk.com and I will inform you of the address to which you can send payment. Questions call 07811 021230 or 01473 210726 sorry I cannot take orders over the phone. We have a maximum of 350 seats.

At the request of the guest speakers, all profits will go to the Ipswich Treehouse Children’s Hospice Appeal. No one is making any money out of this.Gordy

rendlesham-incident.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=837

For people that can attend this conference here's a guide line of how to be prepared, iive took this from the Rendlesham forum hope they dont mind



30th Anniversary: Visit to the forest - be prepared
by Gordy » Sat Nov 13, 2010 12:23 pm

We thought visitors to the forest on 28 December especially those who have never been there, need to be prepared to avoid any possible glitches.

Dec 28 2009 was about -5deg C (23deg F) with 8 inches of snow!. Cars were getting stuck on hills. Rendlesham Forest is in a very rural part of East Suffolk and with the public spending cuts Suffolk County Council have already said they will cut back on road salting. The roads leading out there will not be treated with salt. If a cold snap is forecast and the winds come in off the north sea in an east or north easterly direction we can get very heavy snow. Last year I witnessed thunder snow for the first time where a storm dumped 6in of snow in 2 hours with no warning. I have a Jeep that will pull a car or small van up an icy hill, in case we need to. It can of coarse be the complete opposite with temps upto 12deg C.

Accommodation...........Does anyone need help with finding accomodation?. There are plenty of hotels/guest houses in the Ipswich area. Premier Inn has 4 hotels, there is a Holiday Inn on the outskirts of Ipswich and several more in the town centre itself.

This link www.bentwatersparks.com/accommodation/bandb.html is very useful if you are looking for accomodation in the Woodbridge area itself.

Being over the Xmas period public transport will be almost non-existent I would imagine, especially after 6pm on Dec 28. Do not expect to be able to get a bus or train from Ipswich to Woodbridge, let alone from Woodbridge, the 6 miles or so to the forest. There won't be any. Vehicles are essential. We need to ensure those who need to hitch a ride are catered for. There is plenty of parking in front of the Community Hall and surrounding streets and at that time parking attendants should have gone home to finish off the turkey!.

I have not contacted the Forestry Commission about this event however I will be visiting this weekend to put up some posters. Public access on foot is available 24/7 and permmission is not needed. However there is no vehicular access to the forest.

I have not contacted Woodbridge Base (now called Rock Barracks). Public access is available on part of this base anytime, where the bungalows and barracks for the boys and girls of the 81st are still standing, but no public access is available to the military part so there is no way we would be allowed on there.
If you want to visit Bentwaters Technical site you can drive straight through the main gate and take a look around the western side without needing permission. You need to contact Bentwaters Parks www.bentwatersparks.com/ if you want to cross the runway. It is worth a visit if you can. All the original buildings are still there, as is perimeter post 18 where Larry was posted, right by commie corner.

Flashlights, waterproof clothing and mobile phones are essential. Maybe we could nominate some tour guides and issue their phone numbers to visitors in case they need help. Although this part of the forest is quite small, all the trails look the same at night and it's easy to get lost if you have never been there before.

More Info:

rendlesham-incident.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=841

its not that easy to think up preplanned questions, their presentations might well answer the questions before they are asked, then others might get in before we do with a good question that we had up our sleeve, it could be a case of see how it pans out on the night.

There's only around 90 tickets left for this Historic event, enyone wishing to attend this event should get there Tickets asap as there going fast, you can reserve your Ticket at the no. in OP post.

this is exactly my point on Mr Pope, how the hell can he stand up and claim to be a UFOLOGIST when he is by his own admission holding back details from the UFO community, whats his views on disclosure when HE won't disclose what he knows, for ages we have been waiting for a brave honest whistleblower, well he is neither in my view, just a smuck making a living on the back of the community.

is heckling aloud ? if so my heckle would be " your a wimp pope Jenny Randles is more of a man than you" ;D ;D that deserved 2 smilies

www.ianridpath.com/ufo/rendlesham.htm

Introductory note:

The Rendlesham Forest UFO case has taken on the mantle of the “British Roswell”, but in truth it is a far more significant event than Roswell. There is scarcely any other UFO case anywhere which can boast such a large number of apparently highly credible witnesses on two separate nights, or such a wide variety of supporting evidence including supposed physical traces, an official memo confirming the events written by a high-ranking USAF officer, a real-time tape recording made during the second night of the sighting by the same USAF officer, a report by local police officers who were called to the scene on two separate occasions, and written statements made by the witnesses to the first night’s events. There are more TV programmes to be found posted on YouTube about this one case than any other, and it regularly appears on lists of ‘best ever’ UFO sightings. Yet much of the popular discussion of the case has centred not on the well-substantiated primary evidence mentioned above, but instead on various tales of doubtful provenance that emerged many years later once the Rendlesham mythology had become well-entrenched.

I start these pages by reproducing the first article I wrote on the Rendlesham incident, published early in 1985. Although old it remains valid because it demonstrates where the case stood shortly after it became public knowledge in the early 1980s; hence it is a good place for newcomers to begin reading. The article highlights the main elements of the case and offers explanations for each in turn. It should be emphasized that none of the genuine evidence that has emerged subsequently has invalidated any of these explanations; rather, it has strengthened them. The bulk of this website is devoted to examining that additional evidence. Perhaps most significantly, government documents released since 2001 confirm that the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) never considered the case worthy of a serious investigation, and we now also know why.

My article first appeared in The Guardian, a highbrow English newspaper, on 1985 January 5 under the title “A Flashlight in the Forest”. In this web version I have included a few bracketed asides to clarify and update various points, added some explanations to make various references more comprehensible to non-English readers, and included several illustrations.

The article was written before the release of the tape-recording made by Lt.Colonel Charles Halt describing the events of the second night as he witnessed them. I have placed on this website the latest version of my own transcript of that tape, compiled with the help of Col Halt himself, which corrects many errors contained in various other versions found in print and online. I have also added a detailed analysis of the events on the tape.

In the years since the article first appeared in print I have been able to amplify various points, based in many instances on the additional information contained in Col. Halt’s real-time tape recording or his subsequent interviews. I hope you will find this a suitable balance to some of the more fanciful treatments of this case now in circulation.

SUMMARY
Although the overall case is complex, the main aspects can be summarized as follows:
1. Security guards saw bright lights apparently descending into Rendlesham Forest around 3 a.m on 1980 December 26. A bright fireball burned up over southern England at the same time.
2. The guards went out into the forest and saw a flashing light between the trees, which they followed until they realized it was coming from a lighthouse (Orford Ness).
3. After daybreak, indentations in the ground and marks on the trees were found in a clearing. Local police and a forester identified these as rabbit scrapings and cuts made by foresters.
4. Two nights later the deputy base commander, Lt Col Charles Halt, investigated the area. He took radiation readings, which were background levels. He also saw a flashing light in the direction of Orford Ness but was unable to identify it.
5. Col Halt reported seeing starlike objects that twinkled and hovered for hours, like stars. The brightest of these, which appeared to send down beams of light, was in the direction of Sirius, the brightest star in the sky.
At its most basic, the case comes down to the misinterpretation of a series of nocturnal lights – standard fare for UFOlogy. It is only the concatenation of three different stimuli (fireball, lighthouse, stars) that makes it exceptional.



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