1 00:00:00,716 --> 00:00:07,715 Governments all over the world officially deny the existence of UFOs. 2 00:00:07,715 --> 00:00:11,715 I was called upon to investigate a very strange event. 3 00:00:11,715 --> 00:00:15,714 A thick cloak of secrecy has been drawn over most encounters, 4 00:00:15,714 --> 00:00:22,714 especially when it appears that an unidentified craft has apparently compromised national security. 5 00:00:22,714 --> 00:00:26,713 Nothing in my training prepared me for what I was witnessing. 6 00:00:26,713 --> 00:00:31,713 But some cases have proved too big and too well documented to cover up, 7 00:00:31,713 --> 00:00:36,712 as in the case that's become known as Britain's Roswell. 8 00:00:36,712 --> 00:00:41,711 There was a bright light emulating from an object on the forest floor. 9 00:00:41,711 --> 00:00:48,711 Two strange encounters of the same mysterious lights on two consecutive nights in 1980 10 00:00:48,711 --> 00:00:50,710 There's something very, very strange. 11 00:00:50,710 --> 00:00:55,710 Send American Air Force troops in Britain scrambling to find out if they're under attack. 12 00:00:56,710 --> 00:01:02,709 We've taken a whole new look with new witnesses. We've suddenly reopened this entire case. 13 00:01:02,709 --> 00:01:06,709 What made highly trained, no-nonsense military men 14 00:01:06,709 --> 00:01:08,708 It was my intention to go out there and just put it all to rest. 15 00:01:08,708 --> 00:01:11,708 Believe they may have been in contact with a UFO. 16 00:01:11,708 --> 00:01:13,708 What's that for? 17 00:01:13,708 --> 00:01:19,707 The team from UFO Magazine analyzed newly discovered evidence using the latest technology 18 00:01:19,707 --> 00:01:20,707 Take away point! 19 00:01:20,707 --> 00:01:23,707 and reached some controversial new conclusions. 20 00:01:23,707 --> 00:01:25,707 I think it's safe to say. 21 00:01:25,707 --> 00:01:31,706 For the first time on television, definitive answers about whether U.S. forces actually witnessed 22 00:01:31,706 --> 00:01:37,705 UFO landings at Bentwater's Air Force Base in December of 1980. 23 00:01:38,705 --> 00:01:45,704 This is case number 80101, Military vs. UFOs. 24 00:01:53,704 --> 00:02:00,703 The only one, the only one, the only one. 25 00:02:04,702 --> 00:02:09,702 They were multiple witnesses and an object was seen to land in a place called Rendlington Forest. 26 00:02:09,702 --> 00:02:11,702 Is that awesome or what? 27 00:02:11,702 --> 00:02:17,701 Bill and Pat have recently returned from the National Press Club Conference on Disclosure in Washington, D.C. 28 00:02:17,701 --> 00:02:23,700 where one alleged UFO sighting stood out because it was witnessed by numerous military officials. 29 00:02:23,700 --> 00:02:28,700 I think the most impressive thing about this National Press Club Conference on Disclosure 30 00:02:28,700 --> 00:02:30,699 was all the evidence around the Rendlesham Landing. 31 00:02:30,699 --> 00:02:37,699 Britain's best known UFO sighting occurred in 1980 and involved the United States Air Force personnel 32 00:02:37,699 --> 00:02:39,698 from two military bases in the U.K. 33 00:02:39,698 --> 00:02:46,698 This UFO was seen on two separate consecutive evenings and that just doesn't happen in UFO cases. 34 00:02:46,698 --> 00:02:49,697 And this is in 1980. Remember what was going on in 1980? 35 00:02:49,697 --> 00:02:51,697 The Soviets had invaded Afghanistan. 36 00:02:51,697 --> 00:02:54,697 We were nervous about what was going on over in Eastern Europe. 37 00:02:54,697 --> 00:03:00,696 So the world was on a knife edge with nuclear weapons. 38 00:03:00,696 --> 00:03:10,695 And so at that point, that's when this object appears over already at Bentwater's the most secure U.S. military base. 39 00:03:10,695 --> 00:03:12,695 They must have some sort of official explanation for this. 40 00:03:12,695 --> 00:03:15,694 What the skeptics believe is that there was a lighthouse in the distance. 41 00:03:15,694 --> 00:03:20,694 The lighthouse was maybe flashing in the distance and these soldiers were somehow confused by the lighthouse 42 00:03:20,694 --> 00:03:21,694 and they thought it was a UFO. 43 00:03:21,694 --> 00:03:23,694 I don't believe it, Pat. That's not right. 44 00:03:23,694 --> 00:03:28,693 These are hard-trained individuals. How would they think it's a lighthouse? 45 00:03:28,693 --> 00:03:30,693 I mean, it makes sense. 46 00:03:30,693 --> 00:03:33,692 I hear you, Jeff, but that's what the experts have been saying for the past 27 years. 47 00:03:33,692 --> 00:03:35,692 Sounds like an interesting theory. 48 00:03:35,692 --> 00:03:38,692 You know, guys, we can model that out. We can do our own experiments. 49 00:03:38,692 --> 00:03:42,691 We can take GPS coordinates of the various sighting positions and this lighthouse. 50 00:03:42,691 --> 00:03:47,691 We can get the topographic maps. We could build a model and see if that hypothesis holds water. 51 00:03:47,691 --> 00:03:52,690 This is going to be fantastic because we will either prove it was a lighthouse, that it could have been a lighthouse, 52 00:03:52,690 --> 00:03:59,690 or not. Either way, this will be a phenomenal piece of proof as to whether that theory holds up. 53 00:03:59,690 --> 00:04:00,689 Let's see if it does. 54 00:04:00,689 --> 00:04:01,689 So we're going to Reynoldsium? 55 00:04:01,689 --> 00:04:02,689 Get your passports. 56 00:04:02,689 --> 00:04:03,689 Nice. 57 00:04:08,689 --> 00:04:17,688 The team travels to RAF Bentwaters, a US Air Force base in England, located approximately 85 miles northeast of London, 58 00:04:17,688 --> 00:04:20,687 and adjacent to Reynoldsium Forest. 59 00:04:20,687 --> 00:04:24,687 Nick, tell us about the famous Reynoldsium Incident. 60 00:04:24,687 --> 00:04:28,686 Nick Pope joined the Ministry of Defence in 1985. 61 00:04:28,686 --> 00:04:35,686 Between 1991 and 1994, my job was to investigate UFO sightings for the government 62 00:04:35,686 --> 00:04:39,685 to see whether there was evidence of anything of any defence significance. 63 00:04:39,685 --> 00:04:46,684 The UK's Ministry of Defence has investigated UFO cases dating back to 1967. 64 00:04:46,684 --> 00:04:51,684 But UFO military encounters across the world date back even further. 65 00:04:51,684 --> 00:05:00,683 1948, United States. Captain Mantell of the Kentucky Air National Guard chases a reported UFO. 66 00:05:00,683 --> 00:05:05,682 Minutes later, he is killed when his jet crashes. 67 00:05:05,682 --> 00:05:08,682 1956, England. 68 00:05:08,682 --> 00:05:18,681 Radar operators at RAF Lakinheath track multiple unidentified objects travelling at speeds of up to 12,000 miles per hour. 69 00:05:18,681 --> 00:05:28,680 Now Project Blue Book, the United States research effort, described this as arguably one of the best radar visual cases in the files. 70 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:35,679 According to Project Blue Book, the object outmaneuvers a Venom NF3 jet interceptor. 71 00:05:35,679 --> 00:05:41,678 Pilots report seen glowing lights, seemingly under intelligent control. 72 00:05:41,678 --> 00:05:50,677 The incident was investigated at the time, but once the air traffic controllers had been interviewed, the pilots had been interviewed, the statements taken. 73 00:05:50,677 --> 00:05:53,677 Really, this ended up just as unknown. 74 00:05:53,677 --> 00:05:56,677 1989, Belgium. 75 00:05:56,677 --> 00:06:00,676 Beerset Air Force Base detects something on radar. 76 00:06:00,676 --> 00:06:07,675 19 police officers spot the craft. One of the witnesses records it on video. 77 00:06:07,675 --> 00:06:13,675 The triangular object reported loopholes with three powerful searchlights. 78 00:06:13,675 --> 00:06:18,674 Witnesses report the object seems to be noiseless except for a soft home. 79 00:06:18,674 --> 00:06:22,674 Two and a half hours later, it disappears. 80 00:06:22,674 --> 00:06:25,673 Four months later, it returns. 81 00:06:25,673 --> 00:06:33,673 Colonel Wilfred Brewer of the Belgian Air Force scrambles two F-16 interceptors. 82 00:06:33,673 --> 00:06:41,672 The radar station has been contacted several times to ask if they have observations of the radar. 83 00:06:41,672 --> 00:06:52,670 When the F-16s lock onto the craft, it moves erratically with an acceleration of 46 Gs, far more than the human body can withstand. 84 00:06:52,670 --> 00:06:55,670 The object disappears. 85 00:06:55,670 --> 00:07:08,669 If all these cases involving pilots seeing UFOs tracking them on radar could be viewed from end to end, I think it would make a compelling case for the reality of the UFO phenomenon. 86 00:07:08,669 --> 00:07:21,667 Because when you have that combination of the professional, the reliable observer, and the evidence from radar backing up that testimony, you are making a very, very compelling case. 87 00:07:21,667 --> 00:07:30,666 It's easy to associate UFOs with a fringe element, but once you get up to this whole military chapter of UFOs, it's a whole new ball game. 88 00:07:30,666 --> 00:07:44,665 During his service with England's Ministry of Defense, Nick Pope investigated between 200 and 300 new reports of UFOs each year, making him one of the most experienced UFO investigators in the country. 89 00:07:44,665 --> 00:08:00,663 I think that one of the most important UFO sightings of all time is the Randall-Schemforest incident, which occurred right here on the scale of UFO cases, is right up there in terms of its significance and in terms of the evidence. 90 00:08:00,663 --> 00:08:04,662 I mean, this has sometimes been called Britain's Roswell. 91 00:08:05,662 --> 00:08:20,661 December 26th, 1980, midnight. Security police at RAF Woodbridge, a British Air Force base located next to RAF Bentwaters, report seeing an unknown light in Randall-Schemforest. 92 00:08:20,661 --> 00:08:28,660 At first, they believe it's a downed aircraft. Later, they realize it might possibly be something else. 93 00:08:29,660 --> 00:08:34,659 Sergeant Jim Peniston and two other officers investigate the site. 94 00:08:34,659 --> 00:08:42,658 When we arrived to the suspected crash site, it quickly became apparent that we were not dealing with a plane crash, or anything else we've ever responded to. 95 00:08:42,658 --> 00:08:48,658 There was a bright light emulating from an object on the fourth floor. 96 00:08:48,658 --> 00:08:53,657 Peniston and his team approached the object on foot, taking notes along the way. 97 00:08:54,657 --> 00:09:00,656 Peniston alleges that the craft had blue and yellow lights swirling around its surface. 98 00:09:00,656 --> 00:09:08,655 Peniston claims the surface of the craft had inscribed symbols, three inches long, and three inches long. 99 00:09:08,655 --> 00:09:18,654 Peniston claims the surface of the craft had inscribed symbols, three inches long, and three inches long. 100 00:09:18,654 --> 00:09:25,654 Peniston claims the surface of the craft had inscribed symbols, three inches high, and two and a half feet long. 101 00:09:25,654 --> 00:09:28,653 The largest symbol was a triangle centered in the middle. 102 00:09:28,653 --> 00:09:32,653 As Peniston gets closer to the object, he says that he touched it. 103 00:09:32,653 --> 00:09:36,652 Even though it looked like black onyx, it felt like metal. 104 00:09:36,652 --> 00:09:42,652 45 minutes later, the object maneuvers through the forest and takes off. 105 00:09:42,652 --> 00:09:48,651 It lifted up off the ground and shot away at an incredible speed. 106 00:09:48,651 --> 00:09:51,651 It was gone in the blink of an eye. 107 00:09:51,651 --> 00:09:55,650 Over 80 Air Force personnel witnessed the takeoff. 108 00:09:55,650 --> 00:09:57,650 It wasn't a helicopter. 109 00:09:57,650 --> 00:10:01,650 There is no way that you could have gotten any conventional aircraft in there. 110 00:10:01,650 --> 00:10:04,649 There's no way you would have gotten a helicopter in there. 111 00:10:04,649 --> 00:10:08,649 And the other point, of course, is these are people who worked at an Air Force base. 112 00:10:08,649 --> 00:10:11,648 And they said this was like nothing we'd ever seen before. 113 00:10:11,648 --> 00:10:16,648 I feel like I've stepped into the eye of the UFO hurricane. 114 00:10:16,648 --> 00:10:22,647 There was an experienced Air Force officer that experienced something out of this world. 115 00:10:22,647 --> 00:10:28,647 Now this UFO was triangular in shape. 116 00:10:28,647 --> 00:10:33,646 It was about nine feet wide and six feet high. 117 00:10:33,646 --> 00:10:37,646 Jim Peniston got close enough to touch the side of this thing. 118 00:10:37,646 --> 00:10:41,645 And he saw strange symbols on the hull. 119 00:10:43,645 --> 00:10:47,644 Peniston transcribed six symbols etched in the craft's surface. 120 00:10:51,644 --> 00:10:57,643 Most of the symbols are composed of straight lines and symmetrical. 121 00:10:58,643 --> 00:11:01,643 People have been trying to decipher that writing for years, 122 00:11:01,643 --> 00:11:05,642 thinking maybe it's Egyptian, maybe it's hieroglyphic, maybe it's pictographs. 123 00:11:05,642 --> 00:11:10,642 Clearly, there was a message there that we still haven't deciphered to this very day. 124 00:11:10,642 --> 00:11:15,641 Some witnesses claim that the UFO left physical evidence behind. 125 00:11:15,641 --> 00:11:19,641 There were indentations in the ground where this thing had landed. 126 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:32,639 Bear in mind, of course, this is the middle of winter. 127 00:11:32,639 --> 00:11:34,639 The ground was very hard. 128 00:11:34,639 --> 00:11:38,639 Those indentations had to have been made by something that weighed several tons. 129 00:11:38,639 --> 00:11:41,638 And there were three of these indentations. 130 00:11:41,638 --> 00:11:44,638 Plaster casts were made of the indentations. 131 00:11:44,638 --> 00:11:48,638 When plotted, they allegedly formed an equilateral triangle. 132 00:11:48,638 --> 00:11:53,637 It was almost as if this craft had come down on a landing struts, 133 00:11:53,637 --> 00:11:56,637 some sort of tripod-like device. 134 00:11:56,637 --> 00:12:03,636 There was no conventional aircraft in 1980 known to have a triangular-shaped landing pad that was equilateral. 135 00:12:05,636 --> 00:12:11,635 On the following night, five soldiers led by Colonel Charles Halt investigate the site. 136 00:12:12,635 --> 00:12:17,635 They discover what they feel to be indisputable evidence of anomalous activity. 137 00:12:17,635 --> 00:12:19,634 But it had left physical trace evidence. 138 00:12:19,634 --> 00:12:22,634 And witness an alarming event. 139 00:12:22,634 --> 00:12:24,634 It was back. 140 00:12:27,633 --> 00:12:33,633 December 26th, 1980, midnight. 141 00:12:33,633 --> 00:12:41,632 80 US Air Force personnel allegedly witness an unknown bright object land in Rendlesham Forest, England. 142 00:12:42,632 --> 00:12:48,631 Not just had this UFO been seen by these trained, reliable military witnesses, 143 00:12:48,631 --> 00:12:51,631 but it had left physical trace evidence. 144 00:12:51,631 --> 00:12:55,630 It had left indentations in the ground where it had come down. 145 00:12:55,630 --> 00:13:00,630 On the following night, a squad of soldiers surveys the area with a Geiger counter 146 00:13:00,630 --> 00:13:04,629 and detect abnormally high traces of radiation. 147 00:13:04,629 --> 00:13:06,629 What kind of range are we getting in? 148 00:13:06,629 --> 00:13:07,629 7th. 149 00:13:07,629 --> 00:13:10,629 7th, right here in the center? 150 00:13:10,629 --> 00:13:19,628 The most significant development in terms of the evidence was that they recorded levels which peaked. 151 00:13:19,628 --> 00:13:24,627 Critically, they peaked in those three holes where the thing had come to rest. 152 00:13:25,627 --> 00:13:30,626 The Ministry of Defense released 38 pages of documents relating to the Rendlesham Sighting. 153 00:13:30,626 --> 00:13:36,626 Most of the file is correspondence to and from residents curious about the reported event. 154 00:13:36,626 --> 00:13:41,625 But one interdepartmental memo contains a chilling sentence. 155 00:13:41,625 --> 00:13:48,624 Our Defense Intelligence staff subsequently assessed the levels of radiation as quote, 156 00:13:48,624 --> 00:13:52,624 significantly higher than background, unquote. 157 00:13:53,624 --> 00:13:55,624 It is absolutely official. 158 00:13:55,624 --> 00:14:03,623 It's there in black and white in a Ministry of Defense document written by their scientific and technical intelligence specialists. 159 00:14:03,623 --> 00:14:04,623 Yes. 160 00:14:04,623 --> 00:14:10,622 Unlike many UFO stories, this can be backed up as an audit trail of verifiable documents 161 00:14:10,622 --> 00:14:13,622 bearing out the very things that we've been speaking about. 162 00:14:13,622 --> 00:14:18,621 Nick Pope gave us information about documentation that we didn't even know existed. 163 00:14:18,621 --> 00:14:21,621 And that makes it all the more valid to me. 164 00:14:21,621 --> 00:14:25,620 It's really taken this investigation to a whole new level for me. 165 00:14:25,620 --> 00:14:33,619 Experts believe that some military bases around the world have long secret histories of UFO encounters. 166 00:14:33,619 --> 00:14:41,619 There are many hundreds of cases of encounters between military aircraft and UFOs. 167 00:14:41,619 --> 00:14:46,618 The team tries to find an explanation for these disturbing sightings. 168 00:14:47,618 --> 00:14:55,617 I'm going over some of these archival materials here and I'm finding out that there's a pretty strong correlation between military and UFO sightings. 169 00:14:55,617 --> 00:14:59,617 In July 1945, we actually detonated our first atomic bomb test. 170 00:14:59,617 --> 00:15:03,616 And two years later, also in July, we have the Roswell crash. 171 00:15:03,616 --> 00:15:07,616 And the Roswell crash is what? 100 miles away from Alamogordo? 172 00:15:07,616 --> 00:15:13,615 Ever since 1947, there has been a correlation between possible UFO sightings 173 00:15:13,615 --> 00:15:18,614 and the testing, manufacturing and storage of nuclear weapons. 174 00:15:18,614 --> 00:15:25,614 Is it only a coincidence that Roswell is barely 100 miles from Trinity, New Mexico? 175 00:15:25,614 --> 00:15:29,613 The site of the world's first nuclear explosion. 176 00:15:29,613 --> 00:15:32,613 Here's this case in Pasco, Washington, 1945. 177 00:15:32,613 --> 00:15:36,613 A UFO was caught on radar at a naval air station. 178 00:15:36,613 --> 00:15:41,612 It was flying over Hanford Engineering Works, which was a major manufacturer of plutonium. 179 00:15:41,612 --> 00:15:46,611 That's right. And Hanford later became a major nuclear power facility. 180 00:15:46,611 --> 00:15:50,611 So the nuclear power industry has stayed there really for over 60 years. 181 00:15:50,611 --> 00:15:58,610 In 1945, Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee experienced numerous UFO sightings. 182 00:15:58,610 --> 00:16:02,610 We now know the lab was a top secret atomic bomb plant. 183 00:16:03,610 --> 00:16:11,609 In 1965, Edwards Air Force Base in California spotted 12 luminous UFOs on radar. 184 00:16:11,609 --> 00:16:16,608 This is the tower of Edwards. We have an object now. 185 00:16:16,608 --> 00:16:20,608 We have some confirmed reports of an identified flying object here. 186 00:16:20,608 --> 00:16:23,607 Unidentified flying forces. They have been confirmed ones. 187 00:16:23,607 --> 00:16:25,607 Radar. 188 00:16:25,607 --> 00:16:28,607 F-106 interceptors made visual contact. 189 00:16:28,607 --> 00:16:31,606 I have another red light moving very rapidly. 190 00:16:31,606 --> 00:16:35,606 It's flashing white and green. Definitely using an aircraft. 191 00:16:37,606 --> 00:16:42,605 The F-106 jets carried genie nuclear tip rockets with its weaponry. 192 00:16:42,605 --> 00:16:46,605 Did this nuclear technology trigger a UFO visit? 193 00:16:46,605 --> 00:16:50,604 If there's a link between UFOs and nuclear weapons, what do you think is going on? 194 00:16:50,604 --> 00:16:53,604 Are they spying on the technology? Are they interested in nuclear technology? 195 00:16:53,604 --> 00:16:56,604 Or maybe they're trying to prevent nuclear technology? 196 00:16:56,604 --> 00:16:59,603 I think they are monitoring us. I think they are spying on us. 197 00:16:59,603 --> 00:17:12,602 But the big point is this. Every time you see UFOs that are invading the airspace over nuclear weapons facilities that are highly sensitive military installations, 198 00:17:12,602 --> 00:17:21,601 they don't even bother to be stealthy because they are entering our airspaces with such impunity over these nuclear weapons sites. 199 00:17:21,601 --> 00:17:24,601 They don't even care if they're being seen or not. 200 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:35,599 Strange me back here. This was the hot row here where weapons were stored in the ATF, our team facility down there. 201 00:17:35,599 --> 00:17:41,599 Colonel Halt served as deputy base commander at Bentwater's during the UFO sighting at Rendlesham Forest. 202 00:17:41,599 --> 00:17:46,598 He will neither confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons on the base. 203 00:17:46,598 --> 00:17:51,598 You have to imagine, he's the guy who was sitting with his finger on a nuclear button, 204 00:17:51,598 --> 00:17:56,597 even though we can't say it because you can't talk about American nuclear weapons on UK soil. 205 00:17:58,597 --> 00:18:05,596 A key security component of the base is the watch tower, located just to the north of the hot row. 206 00:18:05,596 --> 00:18:10,595 It provides a view of the entire area and the Rendlesham Forest site. 207 00:18:10,595 --> 00:18:17,595 The team meets Gary Heseltien, a former Air Force policeman with experience in securing nuclear sites. 208 00:18:17,595 --> 00:18:25,594 I've long been fascinated by the Rendlesham Forest case because between 1983 and 1989, I served in the Royal Air Force as a police officer. 209 00:18:25,594 --> 00:18:30,593 And on two nuclear facilities, you always had a high tower. 210 00:18:30,593 --> 00:18:35,593 The significance of the tower was that it was above the tree line and it had a 360 view. 211 00:18:35,593 --> 00:18:39,592 Colonel, this is unbelievable, what a view. You can see everything from up here. 212 00:18:39,592 --> 00:18:45,592 One thing you have to keep in mind, the trees are much higher now. We had a 360 panorama from up here before. 213 00:18:45,592 --> 00:18:48,591 We would never let the trees grow this high for security reasons. 214 00:18:48,591 --> 00:18:52,591 And from here, the tower operator had a fantastic view of everything from miles around. 215 00:18:52,591 --> 00:18:58,590 So if somebody were up here, he could see everything that was going on over in that area. 216 00:18:58,590 --> 00:19:05,589 But was somebody up here? This type of tower would have to be manned 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. 217 00:19:05,589 --> 00:19:08,589 So Colonel, I suspect that there was somebody up here. 218 00:19:08,589 --> 00:19:10,589 Have you any knowledge of anybody up here? 219 00:19:10,589 --> 00:19:13,589 Oh yes, in fact I know who was up here. Very well. 220 00:19:13,589 --> 00:19:20,588 In November 2007, Colonel Halt received an email from one of the guards who was posted in the observation room. 221 00:19:20,588 --> 00:19:27,587 He has given me quite a bit of correspondence and he verifies the fact that that night when he was in the tower, 222 00:19:27,587 --> 00:19:34,586 he actually saw beams coming down into the weapons storage area, simultaneous to the one we saw over our feet in the field. 223 00:19:34,586 --> 00:19:39,586 Did you say there was a man up here who also saw the incident from here and he saw beams coming down? 224 00:19:39,586 --> 00:19:42,585 So this is a whole new way to get down here. 225 00:19:42,585 --> 00:19:44,585 Well, he doesn't really want to come forward. 226 00:19:44,585 --> 00:19:51,584 If a person were up here, as you've said, and could see the whole thing including the lighthouse and the events on the ground and the forest. 227 00:19:51,584 --> 00:20:00,583 I'm talking about the genuine object. It's firing beams down into a special facility, a highly secret and secure area. 228 00:20:00,583 --> 00:20:02,583 So we have a whole new witness. 229 00:20:02,583 --> 00:20:05,583 This breaks this case wide open again. 230 00:20:05,583 --> 00:20:11,582 Another piece of evidence also corroborates the alleged UFO incident. 231 00:20:11,582 --> 00:20:19,581 On the following night, December 26, 1980, Colonel Halt documented his encounter on a cassette recorder. 232 00:20:19,581 --> 00:20:26,580 It recreates his experience moment by moment, and he is now in the hospital. 233 00:20:26,580 --> 00:20:33,580 The team retraces the steps of Colonel Halt's UFO encounter that night. 234 00:20:33,580 --> 00:20:39,579 This is the infamous East Gate Woodbridge. This is where the event actually started. 235 00:20:39,579 --> 00:20:46,578 Colonel Halt arrived at the site with five scouts and two men, and they were shot in the back of the car. 236 00:20:46,578 --> 00:20:52,578 Colonel Halt was shot in the back of the car, and the man was shot in the back of the car. 237 00:20:52,578 --> 00:20:54,577 The event actually started. 238 00:20:54,577 --> 00:21:03,576 Colonel Halt arrived at the site with five servicemen after being told by the other police officers that the mysterious light had been spotted a second time. 239 00:21:03,576 --> 00:21:06,576 The police claimed that it was back. They kept telling me it was back. 240 00:21:06,576 --> 00:21:11,575 When you heard this report from these men, what did you make of it? What was your frame of mind? 241 00:21:11,575 --> 00:21:16,575 I thought there was a rational explanation for this. I guess I was an unbeliever. It's the best way to put it. 242 00:21:16,575 --> 00:21:18,575 What happened when you came out to investigate? 243 00:21:18,575 --> 00:21:25,574 I had to go out and respond and put this to rest. It was my intention to go out there and put it all to rest and put it all behind us and get it over with. 244 00:21:25,574 --> 00:21:28,574 That's really what I intended to do and what I expected to do. 245 00:21:28,574 --> 00:21:36,573 In fact, when I got out there I thought, why did I ever get involved in this? I wish I had done this. I wish I had let somebody else do this, because nobody will believe this. 246 00:21:36,573 --> 00:21:41,572 So I gathered up a small team of five people and we went out into the forest. 247 00:21:42,572 --> 00:21:44,572 You just saw a light out there. Where? 248 00:21:44,572 --> 00:21:48,571 There it is again. That's a strange red light. 249 00:21:49,571 --> 00:21:52,571 Here, here, here, he comes from the south. He's coming toward us now. 250 00:21:56,570 --> 00:22:05,569 Colonel Charles Halt, an American serviceman stationed in Britain in 1980, recounts the night he chased down what he believes was a UFO. 251 00:22:05,569 --> 00:22:08,569 Did you do anything to document the sighting on the night? 252 00:22:08,569 --> 00:22:13,569 Yes, I actually had my little in-ear portable tape recorder with me, so I turned it off and on. 253 00:22:13,569 --> 00:22:16,568 As something was occurring, I documented everything on the tape. 254 00:22:17,568 --> 00:22:19,568 Strange red light. 255 00:22:20,568 --> 00:22:22,568 There's something very, very strange. 256 00:22:22,568 --> 00:22:24,567 It just moved to the right. 257 00:22:24,567 --> 00:22:25,567 Yes. 258 00:22:25,567 --> 00:22:26,567 It got to the right. 259 00:22:26,567 --> 00:22:27,567 Strange. 260 00:22:28,567 --> 00:22:33,566 Halt claims that he led a team of soldiers from the east gate of RAF Bentwaters. 261 00:22:33,566 --> 00:22:40,566 They then spotted the bright object in Rendlesham Forest and reportedly chased after it, hitting east. 262 00:22:40,566 --> 00:22:45,565 When they reached a farmhouse in a clearing, the object launched into the skies. 263 00:22:46,565 --> 00:22:48,565 We were moving this in this direction. 264 00:22:49,565 --> 00:22:52,564 As was the object I saw moving through the trees. 265 00:22:52,564 --> 00:22:55,564 Okay, we're looking at the thing. We're moving about two to three hundred yards away. 266 00:22:55,564 --> 00:22:59,564 It looks like an eye winking at you. Still moving from side to side. 267 00:23:00,563 --> 00:23:03,563 It's a hollow center, right? 268 00:23:03,563 --> 00:23:09,562 You know, like the people when I look at you, the winking and the flashes so bright it almost burns your eyes. 269 00:23:10,562 --> 00:23:14,562 Halt reports that the light moved past a creek into a nearby field. 270 00:23:15,562 --> 00:23:17,562 Just crossed the creek. 271 00:23:17,562 --> 00:23:25,561 We see strange strobe light flashes to the farthest sporadic, but there's definitely something that's kind of comombo. 272 00:23:25,561 --> 00:23:29,560 We come out of the forest up here about another hundred yards chasing the object. 273 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:31,560 The object came out in the middle of this field. 274 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:37,559 The field contained a farmhouse, cattle, and at that time, a bright moving object. 275 00:23:37,559 --> 00:23:41,559 We're hearing very strange sounds out of the farmer's barnyard animals. 276 00:23:41,559 --> 00:23:45,558 They're very, very active making a lot of noise. 277 00:23:46,558 --> 00:23:49,558 Here, here he comes from the side. He's coming toward us now. 278 00:23:49,558 --> 00:23:51,558 And we're looking at this way, obviously. 279 00:23:51,558 --> 00:23:52,558 Okay. 280 00:23:52,558 --> 00:23:55,557 There's the farmer's house. The object was out here in the field over here. 281 00:23:55,557 --> 00:23:56,557 Right. 282 00:23:56,557 --> 00:23:58,557 The light house is over there about 30 degrees. 283 00:24:00,557 --> 00:24:03,556 I'm observing what appears to be a beam coming down to the ground. 284 00:24:05,556 --> 00:24:06,556 This is unreal. 285 00:24:08,556 --> 00:24:10,556 So once you got out here to the field, the object was gone. 286 00:24:10,556 --> 00:24:14,555 The object silently exploded into five white objects and they just disappeared. 287 00:24:17,555 --> 00:24:20,555 Is there any way this could have been some sort of flare? 288 00:24:20,555 --> 00:24:24,554 The flare doesn't move through the forest avoiding trees and bob up and down a little bit. 289 00:24:24,554 --> 00:24:27,554 It came toward us at some point. It went away from us at some point. 290 00:24:27,554 --> 00:24:30,553 And when we approached it, it moved out here into the field. 291 00:24:30,553 --> 00:24:32,553 Now what exactly were you seeing? 292 00:24:32,553 --> 00:24:37,553 It was an object that was oval shaped, bright reddish orange, almost like the sun at midday. 293 00:24:37,553 --> 00:24:40,552 It had a black oval center. 294 00:24:40,552 --> 00:24:44,552 It would blink a little bit and it was dripping something like molten metal. 295 00:24:44,552 --> 00:24:45,552 It was molten metal? 296 00:24:45,552 --> 00:24:47,552 Well, I say that's the only way I can equate it. 297 00:24:47,552 --> 00:24:49,551 It was something that was dripping at the period of office. 298 00:24:49,551 --> 00:24:51,551 The helicopter explanation is out. 299 00:24:51,551 --> 00:24:52,551 No, it wasn't the helicopter. 300 00:24:52,551 --> 00:24:56,551 Colonel Halt is one of the most credible eyewitnesses that I've ever had the chance to talk to. 301 00:24:56,551 --> 00:25:02,550 This man ran an entire military base with a lot of top secret weapons that he couldn't tell me about. 302 00:25:02,550 --> 00:25:04,550 And I don't think he made a mistake that night. 303 00:25:04,550 --> 00:25:08,549 I think something happened that people weren't meant to know about. 304 00:25:10,549 --> 00:25:15,548 These two bases adjacent to the forest were among the most secure in the world. 305 00:25:15,548 --> 00:25:21,548 Impenetrable fences encircled the bases, razor wire, motion detectors, embedded sensors, 306 00:25:21,548 --> 00:25:26,547 and more than 25 heavily armed patrolmen guard the facilities. 307 00:25:26,547 --> 00:25:30,547 This was a facility with some of the tightest security in the world. 308 00:25:30,547 --> 00:25:36,546 And this thing comes out of the sky, it lands there, not once, but twice in a 24 hour period, 309 00:25:36,546 --> 00:25:39,546 without triggering any sort of alarm. 310 00:25:39,546 --> 00:25:44,545 The only way that this thing was seen was by the human eye when these guards came out to see it. 311 00:25:44,545 --> 00:25:47,545 What's odd is that this thing was brilliantly lit. 312 00:25:47,545 --> 00:25:49,545 It shone beams down to the ground. 313 00:25:49,545 --> 00:25:52,544 It's almost as if it didn't even care if it was seen or not. 314 00:25:52,544 --> 00:25:57,544 It's almost as though it could care less about how we would defend ourselves against it. 315 00:25:57,544 --> 00:26:00,544 There's nothing we had that this thing was scared of. 316 00:26:00,544 --> 00:26:03,543 And for me, that's the scariest thing of all. 317 00:26:03,543 --> 00:26:09,543 RAF Bentwater's most likely housed nuclear weapons as tensions grew in the 1980s. 318 00:26:09,543 --> 00:26:13,542 You have to remember what the world was like in 1980. 319 00:26:13,542 --> 00:26:16,542 Some historians call it the start of the Second Cold War, 320 00:26:16,542 --> 00:26:20,541 a cold war threatened to become a hot war, 321 00:26:20,541 --> 00:26:25,541 with two sides staring at each other across the Iron Curtain. 322 00:26:25,541 --> 00:26:32,540 And Ronald Reagan had just been elected president and was making all kinds of threats against the evil empire of the Soviet Union. 323 00:26:32,540 --> 00:26:38,539 It was a very scary time, with both sides making all kinds of military threats. 324 00:26:38,539 --> 00:26:42,539 I'm not saying the aliens were actually listening to us, 325 00:26:42,539 --> 00:26:48,538 but if they were, they might have thought we were just days away from pushing the button. 326 00:26:48,538 --> 00:26:58,537 And here, a UFO came over, a nuclear weapons base, was beaming shots of light down on nuclear weapons. 327 00:26:58,537 --> 00:27:04,536 I guess maybe scanning the weapons, it interfered with the base operations, interfered with the radios, 328 00:27:04,536 --> 00:27:10,536 they scrambled the security team, the UFO actually lured the security team off the base. 329 00:27:10,536 --> 00:27:15,535 So the Americans freak out. They shut it down, they do nothing, they don't want to talk about it. 330 00:27:18,535 --> 00:27:25,534 The United States hasn't investigated UFOs since Project Blue Book ended in January 1970. 331 00:27:25,534 --> 00:27:34,533 But to this day, Britain's Ministry of Defense does, as unidentified objects might pose a threat to British security. 332 00:27:35,533 --> 00:27:41,532 Strangely, Colonel Halt, an American, was not interviewed or debriefed by British authorities. 333 00:27:41,532 --> 00:27:50,531 There was nothing like this had ever happened before. All previous UFO sightings were just lights in the sky, really. 334 00:27:50,531 --> 00:27:56,531 The Americans kind of hope that the British will deal with it, and the British hope that it's an American problem, 335 00:27:56,531 --> 00:28:00,530 and that if anyone says nothing, hopefully the whole situation will go away. 336 00:28:00,530 --> 00:28:08,529 British and American authorities simply advised Halt to send a memo to the UK's Ministry of Defense about the events in the forest. 337 00:28:08,529 --> 00:28:15,529 But two days prior to Colonel Halt's submission of his memo, another inexplicable event occurred. 338 00:28:15,529 --> 00:28:21,528 An event that left local resident and forester Vincent Thurkettle puzzled and disturbed. 339 00:28:21,528 --> 00:28:24,528 I lived in a cottage just over there, I was out chopping wood. 340 00:28:24,528 --> 00:28:28,527 Thurkettle lived and worked in Rendlesham Forest at the time of the sighting. 341 00:28:28,527 --> 00:28:36,526 Between Christmas and New Year, a car pulled up, two young Englishmen got out, say 25 years old, in suits, came and talked to me. 342 00:28:36,526 --> 00:28:41,526 And what they were asking was, they said, we've heard of red lights being seen in the forest. 343 00:28:41,526 --> 00:28:49,525 Who were these mysterious men, and how did they know of the UFO event before Colonel Halt released the information? 344 00:28:49,525 --> 00:28:52,524 It sounds to me like Vincent was actually visited. 345 00:28:53,524 --> 00:28:56,524 The team on covers some alarming answers. 346 00:28:59,524 --> 00:29:06,523 A few days after the UFO incident, two strange men interrogated the residents of Rendlesham Forest in Britain. 347 00:29:06,523 --> 00:29:10,523 No one knows who they were or what they wanted. 348 00:29:10,523 --> 00:29:16,522 A car pulled up, two young Englishmen got out, say 25 years old, in suits, came and talked to me. 349 00:29:16,522 --> 00:29:21,521 And what they were asking was, they said, we've heard of red lights being seen in the forest. 350 00:29:21,521 --> 00:29:24,521 And were you out last night? I said, no. 351 00:29:24,521 --> 00:29:26,521 They said, did you see anything? Do you know anyone? 352 00:29:26,521 --> 00:29:30,520 And I said, no. And then they just closed the conversation down and went. 353 00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:36,520 What's really exciting is this new information about Vincent, Thurkettle, being visited by some kind of men in black. 354 00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:41,519 He did mention that two Englishmen in black suits in a black car visited him. 355 00:29:41,519 --> 00:29:47,518 It almost sounds like a cliche, but it sounds to me like Vincent was actually visited by the men in black. 356 00:29:48,518 --> 00:29:54,518 UFO researchers recognized Thurkettle's encounter as a classic men in black scenario. 357 00:29:54,518 --> 00:30:02,517 Frequently after a UFO sighting, witnesses are reportedly visited by two men who question them about what they saw. 358 00:30:02,517 --> 00:30:10,516 Two young British guys interviewed me and I later found out they interviewed everyone in the area to check if we were out that night and if we'd seen anything. 359 00:30:10,516 --> 00:30:13,516 Who do you think they were? Were they journalists? 360 00:30:13,516 --> 00:30:15,515 Well, if they were journalists, they never published. 361 00:30:15,515 --> 00:30:18,515 And what's fascinating about that is Thurkettle hadn't even written his letter. 362 00:30:18,515 --> 00:30:24,514 The letter that blew everything up and supposedly informed the British about it, he hadn't written that letter. 363 00:30:24,514 --> 00:30:29,514 This case has been investigated for decades. This is the first time I've heard anything about this men in black. 364 00:30:29,514 --> 00:30:34,513 This is a huge piece of the puzzle we're talking about here, so I need to go talk to Colonel Halt about this. 365 00:30:34,513 --> 00:30:37,513 I have a feeling he might be able to tell us a little bit more about it. 366 00:30:39,513 --> 00:30:43,512 Vincent told me that he was visited by two young men in black suits. 367 00:30:43,512 --> 00:30:50,511 They questioned him about the incident, but the thing is how would they know about it as your memo hadn't been released yet? 368 00:30:50,511 --> 00:30:53,511 I don't know who they were. It was done discreetly, I know that. 369 00:30:53,511 --> 00:31:03,510 I do know that the airmen involved were questioned under very mysterious circumstances by people that they didn't recognize and some of them were British. 370 00:31:03,510 --> 00:31:10,509 As a department of forestry employee, Vincent Thurkettle is an expert on the Rendlesham Forest area 371 00:31:10,509 --> 00:31:15,509 and feels that Halt's sighting of a UFO was no sighting at all. 372 00:31:15,509 --> 00:31:21,508 This guy knows that forest and he's trying to tell me that he really didn't find anything unusual in the area where the UFO supposedly landed. 373 00:31:21,508 --> 00:31:25,508 His argument is convincing that maybe it was the lighthouse. 374 00:31:27,507 --> 00:31:32,507 Six miles away from the reported UFO landing site sits Orford Ness Lighthouse. 375 00:31:32,507 --> 00:31:39,506 Skeptics claim that its 3,000 watt beam of light is what the servicemen mistook for the UFO. 376 00:31:40,506 --> 00:31:46,505 It's like a pupil and I looking at you and winking and the flash is so bright that you almost burn dry. 377 00:31:49,505 --> 00:32:00,504 If we don't believe they were looking at the lighthouse, then we have to believe that they were watching a UFO which was pulsing at the same interval as the lighthouse 378 00:32:00,504 --> 00:32:06,503 and was less bright than the lighthouse and yet on Colonel Halt's tape he makes no mention of it. 379 00:32:07,503 --> 00:32:17,502 Vincent also said that the duration of the strobe in the lighthouse was every five seconds and it seemed to coincide with you making entries on your tape recorder every five seconds. 380 00:32:17,502 --> 00:32:18,502 Is that a coincidence? 381 00:32:18,502 --> 00:32:21,501 Let me show you something. I have the tape recorder here with me. It's a small linear. 382 00:32:21,501 --> 00:32:24,501 The tapes are 20 minutes in duration. 383 00:32:24,501 --> 00:32:27,501 So there's no way I could have kept the tape running the whole time. 384 00:32:27,501 --> 00:32:29,501 I must have stopped that tape a hundred times. 385 00:32:29,501 --> 00:32:32,500 It's very simple to do. If you look there's just a simple slide switch. 386 00:32:32,500 --> 00:32:38,500 I was going click, click, click, click, click the whole time we were out there because I didn't want to run out of tape. 387 00:32:39,499 --> 00:32:42,499 There it is. Hey, I see it too. What is it? 388 00:32:42,499 --> 00:32:46,499 We don't know. It's a strange, small red light. 389 00:32:46,499 --> 00:32:49,498 Looks like maybe a quarter to half an hour, maybe a quarter to half. 390 00:32:52,498 --> 00:32:58,497 Six weeks later, Thurkettle inspected the three indentations the UFO supposedly made in the field. 391 00:32:59,497 --> 00:33:03,497 So I'm going through the woods now, hearts going, really excited, 392 00:33:03,497 --> 00:33:09,496 and then we got to an area where there was a ring of sticks over a glade in the sort of bracket and this brown dead stuff around us. 393 00:33:09,496 --> 00:33:14,496 And he said, this is it. And as I looked at it, I said, but these are rabbit scrapes. 394 00:33:17,495 --> 00:33:21,495 Now Vincent also had something to say about the indentations in the ground. 395 00:33:21,495 --> 00:33:24,494 He's of the opinion that they were rabbit scrapings. 396 00:33:24,494 --> 00:33:28,494 Keep in mind, a day or two after the incident, someone in a security police squad, 397 00:33:28,494 --> 00:33:32,494 and I'm sure went out there and created at least one, if not two, false sites, 398 00:33:32,494 --> 00:33:34,493 and they put a lot of sticks in the ground around it. 399 00:33:34,493 --> 00:33:35,493 Why would someone do that? 400 00:33:35,493 --> 00:33:37,493 To mislead people, perhaps, I don't know. 401 00:33:37,493 --> 00:33:39,493 So maybe Vincent was looking at the wrong site. 402 00:33:39,493 --> 00:33:43,492 I don't know what he looked at, but he said it was six weeks later when he went out. 403 00:33:43,492 --> 00:33:49,492 Why would someone like Vincent, basically someone who wasn't there, get so much credence for his theories? 404 00:33:50,492 --> 00:33:54,491 You know, it's not uncommon for black programs, as I like to call them, 405 00:33:54,491 --> 00:34:00,490 to use disinformation as a very efficient tool and a very good way to discredit a story. 406 00:34:00,490 --> 00:34:06,490 Just days before any reports went to the U.S. Air Force about the event at Bentwater's, 407 00:34:06,490 --> 00:34:09,489 British intelligence agents show up and start interviewing people. 408 00:34:09,489 --> 00:34:11,489 What were they doing? 409 00:34:11,489 --> 00:34:16,489 The British must have known at some level of the government what was going on 410 00:34:16,489 --> 00:34:19,488 and what they had to do to cover this up. 411 00:34:19,488 --> 00:34:22,488 At first I thought, okay, maybe it could have been a lighthouse, 412 00:34:22,488 --> 00:34:26,488 but I'm really starting to believe that Colonel Hall did have a huge experience. 413 00:34:26,488 --> 00:34:29,487 Conflicting testimony from highly credible witnesses 414 00:34:29,487 --> 00:34:35,487 have kept the debate about the lighthouse theory alive for more than 27 years. 415 00:34:35,487 --> 00:34:41,486 But can the testimony stand up to the scrutiny of scientific proof? 416 00:34:41,486 --> 00:34:45,485 I'm looking forward to getting more detail of where his position was, 417 00:34:45,485 --> 00:34:51,485 the position of this UFO where it landed, and the position and orientation of the farmhouse. 418 00:34:51,485 --> 00:34:57,484 The most widely accepted explanation is that the lighthouse emitted a boom of light 419 00:34:57,484 --> 00:35:02,484 that reflected off the farmhouse and created the mysterious light the soldiers saw. 420 00:35:02,484 --> 00:35:05,483 The team decides to test this theory. 421 00:35:05,483 --> 00:35:08,483 Well, I thought what we want to do is get the best coordinates we can. 422 00:35:08,483 --> 00:35:11,483 I know it's been 27 years, but we'll just do the best we can. 423 00:35:11,483 --> 00:35:13,482 So Jeff and I will stay out here with the GPS, 424 00:35:13,482 --> 00:35:17,482 and if you two can go back to the site where you thought you were that night 425 00:35:17,482 --> 00:35:21,481 and then adjust our positions based on your sight lines from that location. 426 00:35:21,481 --> 00:35:24,481 Using the GPS coordinates of the main landmarks, 427 00:35:24,481 --> 00:35:28,481 the team will construct a 3D model of the event. 428 00:35:28,481 --> 00:35:30,480 Is this the kind of where they were? 429 00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:32,480 Actually a little more to the right. 430 00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:35,480 Ted, a little bit this way. 431 00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:38,480 Further forward. 432 00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:39,479 Okay. 433 00:35:39,479 --> 00:35:40,479 That's good. 434 00:35:40,479 --> 00:35:42,479 The best I can determine. 435 00:35:42,479 --> 00:35:43,479 Make a waypoint! 436 00:35:43,479 --> 00:35:49,478 Ted marks the GPS coordinates of where Colonel Halt said the UFO landed. 437 00:35:49,478 --> 00:35:51,478 That's good! 438 00:35:51,478 --> 00:35:54,478 Colonel Halt points out the location of the lighthouse. 439 00:35:54,478 --> 00:35:58,477 Right, there's a notch in the far tree line over there. 440 00:35:58,477 --> 00:36:01,477 It was about 30 degrees from where I saw the object to where the lighthouse was. 441 00:36:01,477 --> 00:36:03,477 That was my recollection. 442 00:36:03,477 --> 00:36:06,477 Okay, so if Jeff is the light source, is that good? 443 00:36:06,477 --> 00:36:07,476 Yeah. 444 00:36:07,476 --> 00:36:09,476 Take a waypoint! 445 00:36:09,476 --> 00:36:11,476 Okay Ted, come on back here. 446 00:36:11,476 --> 00:36:16,475 We'll plug the GPS into the camera and we'll shoot from this waypoint. 447 00:36:16,475 --> 00:36:20,475 Was the object witnessed by more than 80 Air Force servicemen 448 00:36:20,475 --> 00:36:27,474 and the deputy-based commander merely a beam of light, a UFO, or something else entirely? 449 00:36:27,474 --> 00:36:32,474 Is it possible that the beam from that light was what the troops in the forest saw? 450 00:36:32,474 --> 00:36:34,473 Science may hold the answer. 451 00:36:34,473 --> 00:36:39,473 And a new expert witness, never before interviewed, speaks out. 452 00:36:39,473 --> 00:36:41,473 The lighthouse is actually... 453 00:36:47,472 --> 00:36:52,471 Experiments producer John Tindall has created a model of Rendlesham Forest 454 00:36:52,471 --> 00:36:55,471 to determine what the military officers witnessed. 455 00:36:55,471 --> 00:36:57,471 Was it a beam of light? 456 00:36:57,471 --> 00:36:59,471 Or a UFO? 457 00:36:59,471 --> 00:37:03,470 Well remember we were in Rendlesham Forest in England. 458 00:37:03,470 --> 00:37:06,470 We took GPS coordinates and photographs as well. 459 00:37:06,470 --> 00:37:10,469 This was the view from where Colonel Halt was standing that night. 460 00:37:10,469 --> 00:37:16,469 And with that and the photographs, we've been able to recreate to scale exactly what was happening there. 461 00:37:16,469 --> 00:37:21,468 And what we want to do is prove and or disprove two different points. 462 00:37:21,468 --> 00:37:25,468 The first point is can a lighthouse, six miles in the distance, 463 00:37:25,468 --> 00:37:29,467 have any sort of effect on the face of that farmhouse? 464 00:37:29,467 --> 00:37:34,467 Second, can the UFO have an effect on the face of that building? 465 00:37:34,467 --> 00:37:38,466 What the Colonel was saying was he was actually seeing reflections coming back from the windows. 466 00:37:38,466 --> 00:37:46,465 So in that miniature we put some little dental mirrors in there actually to aid us in doing the reflection. 467 00:37:47,465 --> 00:37:55,464 Never before has somebody actually geometrically set up the angles of sight 468 00:37:55,464 --> 00:38:01,464 between the lighthouse, the farmhouse, the clearing and the forest. 469 00:38:01,464 --> 00:38:03,464 So where was Colonel Halt's line of sight now? 470 00:38:03,464 --> 00:38:04,463 Right over here. 471 00:38:04,463 --> 00:38:06,463 This is the position where he was standing. 472 00:38:06,463 --> 00:38:12,463 And we've set this up as a line of sight so we can get the exact angle to the lighthouse or the windows in the house. 473 00:38:15,462 --> 00:38:16,462 I see it. 474 00:38:16,462 --> 00:38:19,462 Jeff, why don't you bring the magic UFO wand in? 475 00:38:19,462 --> 00:38:22,461 And we're going to approximate it in that area. 476 00:38:22,461 --> 00:38:27,461 That position where Jeff has that light is where Colonel Halt said this UFO had landed. 477 00:38:27,461 --> 00:38:30,461 I can see the reflection on the window from his point of view. 478 00:38:30,461 --> 00:38:38,460 And what's interesting is that the lighthouse is a separate light entirely not reflecting in the window. 479 00:38:41,459 --> 00:38:46,459 Because there is no reflection from the lighthouse into this line of sight. 480 00:38:46,459 --> 00:38:49,458 You see the light directly but you don't see any reflection. 481 00:38:50,458 --> 00:38:56,458 But I don't understand how the lighthouse even plays into this. 482 00:38:56,458 --> 00:38:57,458 That's a very good point. 483 00:38:57,458 --> 00:39:07,457 The lighthouse is almost over the horizon and it's just a very strange idea that experienced servicemen would get excited about a lighthouse in the distance. 484 00:39:09,456 --> 00:39:10,456 There it is again. 485 00:39:10,456 --> 00:39:12,456 There's a strange red light. 486 00:39:12,456 --> 00:39:14,456 There's definitely something there. 487 00:39:14,456 --> 00:39:15,456 Some kind of phenomena. 488 00:39:16,456 --> 00:39:27,454 The second experiment was where must there have been a light source in order to create a reflection off the windows of the house and into Colonel Halt's eyes. 489 00:39:27,454 --> 00:39:35,453 I'm seeing a reflection on the window from the object that's supposed to be the UFO. 490 00:39:35,453 --> 00:39:41,453 So a bright light reflecting off the UFO from that position would definitely make the house look that it was on fire. 491 00:39:41,453 --> 00:39:44,452 As if it were on fire behind the window. 492 00:39:45,452 --> 00:39:51,452 I know like a pupil and I looking at you and winking and the flash is so bright it almost burns your eyes. 493 00:39:51,452 --> 00:39:57,451 I think it's safe to say that if there was a very bright light in the position that Colonel Halt observed there to be, 494 00:39:57,451 --> 00:40:05,450 the angle of reflection off of the house is just about optimal off those windows to get the brightest reflection back to the observation. 495 00:40:05,450 --> 00:40:14,449 I think basically we've just closed the door about Orford Ness being the source of the light that Charles Halt saw that night. 496 00:40:14,449 --> 00:40:18,449 Whether it's a UFO, whether it's not a UFO, who knows what it is. 497 00:40:25,448 --> 00:40:30,447 One person may be able to provide a definitive answer to this UFO debate. 498 00:40:30,447 --> 00:40:34,447 Keith Seaman is the keeper of the Orford Ness lighthouse. 499 00:40:34,447 --> 00:40:41,446 Is it possible that the beam from that light was what the troops in the forest saw that night on December 26th, 1980? 500 00:40:41,446 --> 00:40:52,445 If we look at the lighthouse behind us, we can see that it's got a big piece of metal behind it pointing in the direction of Rendlesham, which is over there. 501 00:40:52,445 --> 00:41:04,444 Now, albeit that the intensity of the light was greater than in 1980 than it is now, the light still wouldn't have shone actually directly through the trees. 502 00:41:04,444 --> 00:41:10,443 All you would see on a clear night is the flash of the lighthouse every five seconds going across the sky. 503 00:41:10,443 --> 00:41:17,442 So you're saying that that cover, that piece of metal that is blocking the light was there in 1980? 504 00:41:17,442 --> 00:41:18,442 It's always been there. 505 00:41:18,442 --> 00:41:24,441 So there's never been a time in the history of this lighthouse that the light was actually shining towards Rendlesham Forest? 506 00:41:24,441 --> 00:41:25,441 No. 507 00:41:25,441 --> 00:41:28,441 I think we finally got a whole new piece to the puzzle. 508 00:41:28,441 --> 00:41:37,440 According to Keith Seaman, the lighthouse attendant, there's a big piece of metal on the backside of the lighthouse that doesn't shine towards the land, it shines out to sea. 509 00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:43,439 So this is like a huge, exciting new piece of information that no one's really ever looked into. 510 00:41:43,439 --> 00:41:47,439 And thankfully we actually came here to get the information to find out for ourselves. 511 00:41:48,439 --> 00:41:56,438 We interviewed Charles Holt and confirmed the entire story that Colonel Holt said. 512 00:41:56,438 --> 00:42:08,436 We actually went to the tower, brand new spot, where a witness whom we discovered saw the entire event play out from the vantage point of the tower and could see everything. 513 00:42:08,436 --> 00:42:13,436 We've interviewed other witnesses and every single story was credible. 514 00:42:13,436 --> 00:42:17,435 All these eyewitnesses have stood by their testimony for over 30 years now. 515 00:42:17,435 --> 00:42:20,435 And we've completely disproven this whole lighthouse theory. 516 00:42:20,435 --> 00:42:25,435 Yeah, but guys, it's not like just by disproving the lighthouse theory we've proven the existence of UFOs. 517 00:42:25,435 --> 00:42:27,434 I mean, there still could be other explanations. 518 00:42:27,434 --> 00:42:31,434 You know, we know there are two top secret air force bases in the area. 519 00:42:31,434 --> 00:42:35,434 It could have been some sort of new top secret military aircraft or a drone or something. 520 00:42:35,434 --> 00:42:40,433 I just don't want to jump to the conclusion that it has to have been extraterrestrial UFO vehicles. 521 00:42:40,433 --> 00:42:44,433 True. I mean, what if it were some kind of drone, but maybe it wasn't ours? 522 00:42:44,433 --> 00:42:48,432 You know, that would explain all the disinformation around the topic, right? 523 00:42:48,432 --> 00:42:51,432 The government's denial that anything of significance happened there. 524 00:42:51,432 --> 00:42:57,431 And I would give you that without hesitation, except for one thing in my mind that still sticks. 525 00:42:57,431 --> 00:43:05,430 Drones, at least the ones that I know, don't float out into a field and then split into five separate lights and go in five separate directions. 526 00:43:05,430 --> 00:43:06,430 That bothers me. 527 00:43:06,430 --> 00:43:09,430 Well, it could still be some kind of top secret drone, right? 528 00:43:09,430 --> 00:43:12,429 Look, we've really done a great job in this case. 529 00:43:12,429 --> 00:43:14,429 I think we've really closed it up. 530 00:43:14,429 --> 00:43:16,429 We've sent the skeptics running. 531 00:43:16,429 --> 00:43:20,429 As you say, we've shown it could not possibly have been their favorite theories. 532 00:43:20,429 --> 00:43:23,428 So you know what? We debunked the debunkers. 533 00:43:25,428 --> 00:43:30,427 The Rendlesham Forest case differs from other reported sightings because of the number of witnesses. 534 00:43:30,427 --> 00:43:33,427 Over 80 witness to take off. 535 00:43:33,427 --> 00:43:35,427 The level of their expertise. 536 00:43:35,427 --> 00:43:39,426 The deputy base commander is telling me that he had a UFO event. 537 00:43:39,426 --> 00:43:42,426 And the physical evidence left behind. 538 00:43:42,426 --> 00:43:43,426 We discovered radiation. 539 00:43:43,426 --> 00:43:51,425 But like most UFO cases, there may be an earthly explanation for the events of those two nights in 1980. 540 00:43:51,425 --> 00:43:54,425 Did the troops really encounter a UFO? 541 00:43:54,425 --> 00:44:00,424 Is it possible that nuclear bases are being monitored by something not of this world? 542 00:44:00,424 --> 00:44:03,424 I'm firmly convinced of what we saw was something out of the ordinary. 543 00:44:03,424 --> 00:44:12,423 The answer to why a UFO presence might persist here and elsewhere is as mysterious as the UFOs themselves. 544 00:44:12,423 --> 00:44:14,423 There's something very, very strange.