FW: BBC Suffolk: Rendlesham Forest UFO airmen at Woodbridge event

  it’s largely unbearable and caused me to write to its producer the letter below the posting. Incredibly, NONE of the witnesses spoke in the program (apart from Halt’s tape). Thanks to Giuliano for alerting me. Remember, UK people pay about £150 per year in BBC licence fees – just fortunate that we can get a better picture from a Google video that BBC researchers/producers didn’t watch or didn’t reference.   Clearly, for the BBC – “opinion is king” and evidence does not count for anything – nor does being a witness to the actual events – better to focus on hearsay and on what people who weren’t there. They even spend time interviewing a policeman who admits he never investigated the event on the night as he was called elsewhere! Wow.   For anyone that wants the facts – watch this:   video.google.com/vid…   don’t waste time with the BBC trash.   Source: news.bbc.co.uk/local…   Rendlesham Forest UFO airmen at Woodbridge event John Burroughs, Nick Pope and Jim Penniston at Woodbridge’s east gate Two former USAF servicemen have returned to Suffolk, 30 years after the claims of UFO sightings in a forest. The Rendlesham Incident took place near the airbases of Bentwaters and Woodbridge over Christmas 1980. United States Air Force security personnel John Burroughs and Jim Penniston returned to give a talk at Woodbridge Community Hall in 2010. “To find out there are 400 people here is totally amazing,” said Mr Burroughs, who was not paid to attend. The two security personnel were the first to report sightings of strange lights on 26, December 1980. Sightings of strange lights were again reported when personnel went out to search the forest a day later. UFO watchers gather at night in Rendlesham Forest in 2010 Space capsule One of the many theories about the phenomena is that, once they had heard the initial UFO reports, jokers from RAF Woodbridge decided to take a helicopter out with an Apollo space capsule dangling underneath. “I was on duty the first night and the airfield was shut down,” said Mr Burroughs. “There was no aircraft activity. There was nothing going on. “I can honestly tell you that when we were out there on the first night, there was no helicopter activity.” However, the ‘practical joke’ theorists/UFO sceptics say the capsule could have gone out later on, when the security men weren’t on duty. Other theories suggest it was an alien craft, something supernatural, a misreading of natural lights in the sky such as meteor showers and further confusion on subsequent nights with the ‘bending’ light from Orford Lighthouse on the coast. Experts offer best UFO theories Mr Burroughs is convinced he saw the strange lights on the first night, but he has no firm explanation for them. “Eventually we might come to terms with what may have happened,” he said. “But I don’t know if we’ll ever be able to explain it in a way where we’ll all agree that that’s what happened. John Burroughs and Jim Penniston at the Woodbridge Community Hall Hypnosis UFOlogists have cited conflicting reports from the servicemen as to whether a craft was actually spotted or just lights. Burroughs and Penniston have both had hypnosis since, but UFO sceptics claim they could just be remembering science fiction movies that they had seen. Mr Burroughs said: “I don’t know if you’ll ever come to terms with something you don’t totally understand. “I’m not convinced of anything yet, but it seems as if things are starting to go towards an area of what it could be, but at this point it’s still not sure.” One thing that is definite – the Woodbridge event raised £2000 for the EACH Treehouse Appeal. The organisers of the night said that no-one made any money for personal gain from the event and the Americans were coming over to the UK for a visit and paid their own way. BBC Suffolk gathered experts at Bentwaters for a 30th anniversary broadcast in December 2010. It featured Nick Pope who is a former MOD UFO investigator, who was also at the Woodbridge talk. An hour of highlights from the Rendlesham Revealed programme was broadcast on Monday, 27 December, 2010 and you can listen to it on the BBC iPlayer until 3, January 2011.       From: Andrew Johnson [mailto:info@checktheevidenc…] Sent: 30 December 2010 13:14To: ‘Jen.Dale@bbc.co.uk‘Subject: Rendlesham “Revealed” Dear Jen,   I listened to the programme on iPlayer. It was a huge, huge disappointment and yet another instance of misleading coverage. It is a shame that if you were trying to establish what happened in 1980, you didn’t actually get any statements or recordings from the actual witnesses themselves (other than the portion of Halt’s tape). If they were approached and refused to participate, then it is completely understandable why. I will refrain from too many lengthy further remarks, other than inform or remind you of 2 things   1) comments put in a press release last year by Col Charles Halt 2) Vince Thrirkettle’s remarks in a comprehensive 2006 documentary.   1) Colonel Halt stated in 2009:   www.prufospolicedata…   I wish to make it perfectly clear that the UFOs I saw were structured machines moving under intelligent control and operating beyond the realm of anything I have ever seen before or since. I believe the objects that I saw at close quarter were extraterrestrial in origin and that the security services of both the United States and England were and have been complicit in trying to subvert the significance of what occurred at Rendlesham by use of well practiced methods of disinformation.   I believe Gary’s script will lift a veil of secrecy about what really happened at Rendlesham, events that were and still are of tremendous defense significance to the United Kingdom and indeed the rest of the world.”   2) In 2006 or 2005 Vince Thirkettle stated in regard to the 2nd landing site (not mentioned in your programme):    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5212634272599373426#    At about  1:17:39    “This is new, this is different. I have no opinion on this. I wasn’t here 20 years ago. No one talked about this 20 years ago. The other site is the site of folklore. That’s the one that’s famous. That’s the one that everyone’s been believing…   This site is just a whole new ball game. This site is so far and with the intervening falls and rises and falls in the ground you could never have seen the farmhouse or the lighthouse from this site”   How interesting that Thirkettle had “forgotten” this trip he to the 2nd landing site. With of course, too much use of the words “theory” and “belief” in your programme, it left little room for any serious analysis and investigation of the actual evidence. Here is an example of such investigation and evidence.     How can people who weren’t even there possibly make any comments of value compared to the actual witnesses? Watch the rest to see what you missed. Shocking – really, really shocking.   Regards   Andrew Johnson UK   Are you interested in what’s really going on in the world, behind the facade? Then…www.checktheevidence… happened on 9/11?www.drjudywood.com/