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I'm not sure if it's good morning or

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good afternoon her it's twelve o'clock

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my name is James Penniston United States

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Air Force retired in nineteen eighty i

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was assigned to the largest Tactical

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Fighter Wing in the Air Force at the

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time those I was stationed at raf

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woodbridge england i was a senior

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security officer in charge of that base

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security at that time I held the top

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secret US and needles security clearance

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and was responsible for the protection

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of the war-making region resources for

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that base shortly after midnight on the

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26 of December 1980 staff sergeant

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Stefan's briefed me that some lights

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were seen in Rendlesham forest just

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outside the back gate he informed me

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that whatever he seen didn't crash he

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told me it landed i discounted that and

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reported to the control center at the

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base that we had a possible downed

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aircraft I then ordered Herman cabanne

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Zac a1c burles to respond with me

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off-site when we arrived to de spected

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crash site it quickly became apparent

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that we were not dealing with a plane

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crash or for that matter anything else

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we've ever responded to there was a

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bright light emanating from an object on

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the forest floor as we approached it on

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foot a silhouette reininger craft about

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nine feet long six and a half feet high

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came into view the craft was fully

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intact and sitting in a small clearing

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just inside the woods

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as the three of us got closer to the

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craft we started experiencing radio

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difficulties I then asked airman can ban

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sach to relate the radio transmissions

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back to our control center act as a

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relay Burroughs and I proceeded towards

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the craft when we came up on the

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triangular shaped craft there were blue

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and yellow lights swirling around the

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exterior as though they were part of the

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surface the air around us was

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electrically charged and we could feel

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on our clothes our skin and our hair

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nothing nothing in my training prepared

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me for what I was witnessing after ten

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minutes without any apparent aggression

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I determined the craft was not hostile

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to my team and to the base following the

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security protocols we completed a

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thorough on-site investigation this

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includes a full physical examination of

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the craft which includes photographs and

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my notebook entries i had a time and

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relays with the radio through airman

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commands act to our control center those

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were required on one side of the craft

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there were symbols that measured three

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inches high and their approximate about

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two and a half feet long a civil torial

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design the largest symbol was a triangle

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at the center in the middle of the

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others these zones were etched in the

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surface of a crack crack which was

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warned to touch even all the plate black

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onyx felt

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the feeling I had during the encounter

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was like no type of aircraft I've ever

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seen before it was a in the jains book

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of known aircraft or anything I've seen

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sense after roughly about 45 minutes the

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light from the crap again to intensify

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burles and I then took a defensive

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position away from the craft as it

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lifted off the ground without any noise

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or air disturbance it maneuvered through

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the trees and shot off at an

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unbelievable rate of speed it was gone

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in a blink of an eye in my law book they

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have right here I wrote speed impossible

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that night over 80 Air Force personnel

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all trained observers assigned to the

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81st security police squadron witnessed

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the takeoff the information acquired

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during that investigation was reported

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through my military channels the team

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and witnesses were told to treat the

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investigation as top secret and no

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further discussion would be allowed the

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photographs that we retrieved from the

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base lab two rolls of 35 millimeter of

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course we're apparently it's over

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exposed thank

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you