Witnesses of the Rendlesham Forest Incident

The Rendlesham Forest incident was a series of reported sightings of unexplained lights near Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk, England, in December 1980, which became linked with alleged UFO landings. The events occurred just outside RAF Woodbridge, which was used at the time by the United States Air Force (USAF). USAF personnel, including deputy base commander Lieutenant Colonel Charles I. Halt, claimed to have seen things he described as a UFO. The occurrence is the most famous of alleged UFO events to have happened in the United Kingdom. It has been compared to the Roswell UFO incident in the United States and is sometimes called "Britain's Roswell". The UK Ministry of Defence has stated that the event posed no threat to national security and was therefore never investigated as a security matter. Sceptics have explained the sightings as a misinterpretation of a series of nocturnal lights: a fireball, the Orfordness Lighthouse, and bright stars.