1980
HALL III · December 26–28, 1980
Rendlesham Forest
NATO airbase incident, Suffolk
RAF Woodbridge / RAF Bentwaters, United Kingdom
CURATOR'S WALL TEXT
LEVEL
LENS
Over three nights, U.S. Air Force personnel stationed at the twin NATO bases reported a luminous craft in adjacent woodland. The 'Halt Memorandum,' a one-page report by Deputy Base Commander Lt. Col. Charles I. Halt, was released by the U.K. Ministry of Defence in 2001 and describes ground-trace indentations, elevated radiation readings, and a beam of light directed at the base's weapons storage area. The MoD released its complete Rendlesham file in 2008.
CONTINUE THE INVESTIGATION