The Rendlesham "UFO Landing"
Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK - December 26, 1980
In a case that is sometimes referred to as "the British Roswell," wild claims have been made about a UFO that supposedly landed (or crashed, in some accounts) in the Rendlesham forest in eastern England, just outside the Woodbridge U.S. Air Force base. Here in the U.S., television "documentaries" have "re-created" the supposed event with elaborate and impressive special effects.
Skeptical Papers:
In
Ian Ridpath's 1985 article
first published in
The Guardian
was the first to explain the Rendlesham "UFO landing" in prosaic terms.
Ridpath's
follow-up material on Rendlesham
goes into details of claims made about radiation, landing marks, etc.
James Easton has a
Rendlesham page
on his
UFO World
site in the U.K.
Other Sources:
The
BBC Online's
page on Rendlesham weirdness.
From
about.com's "Best UFO Cases."
The far-out UFO group CSETI includes Rendlesham in their compendium of
possible UFO crashes!
The
page on Rendlesham
from the ISSO's "UFO Briefing Book."
The UFO Skeptic's Page
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