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good morning ladies and gentlemen my

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name is Charles I halt in 1991 I retired

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from the US Air Force as a colonel

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I was base commander of two large excute

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two large military installations and at

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my time of my retirement was director of

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inspections directed the DoD Inspector

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General in that capacity I had

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inspection oversight of all military

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services and defense agencies in 1980 I

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was a deputy base commander RAF

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Bentwaters the largest twin base complex

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in East Anglia at the time this was the

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largest Tactical Fighter Wing in the Air

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Force in late December 1980 I was called

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upon to investigate a very strange event

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an event that was distracting our

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security police from their primary

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duties early on the morning to 26

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December 1980 our police patrolmen

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discovered strange lights in the forest

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east of the back gate at RAF Woodbridge

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three patrolmen were dispatched to

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investigate they reported a strange

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craft triangular in shape sitting on

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three legs the craft was approximately

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three meters on a side it had multiple

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lights it rapidly maneuvered and quickly

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disappeared I was not immediately aware

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of all the details only being told of

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strange lights and I assume there was a

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reasonable explanation for this two

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nights later at the family Christmas

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party I was interrupted by the on-duty

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police commander he told of strange

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events and said it was back since my

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boss had to present awards I was tasked

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to go out and investigate I fully

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expected to find an explanation I took

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two senior patrolmen with me a disaster

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preparedness expert and the reporting

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on-duty police officer

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if the site we find three

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one-and-a-half-inch indentations

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triangular and pattern now today I have

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a plaster cast of one of those three

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indentations and as you can see it's

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about an inch and a half maybe two

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inches deep and about nine inches across

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an interesting point is that the forest

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floor there was very hard packed sand in

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order to make three impressions of this

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nature it would had him in a very heavy

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object we discovered mild radiation and

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evidence of broken branches on the trees

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we suddenly observed a very bright

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red-orange object it was oval and with a

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black center it reminded me of an eye

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and it appeared to be winking or

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blinking it maneuvered horizontally

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through the trees with an occasional

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vertical movement when approached it

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receded and silently broke into five

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white objects we moved out of the forest

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and onto a pasture and observed several

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objects in the sky multiple objects to

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the north

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they changed shape from elliptical

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durand so where other objects were seen

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to the south one approached a very high

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speed and sent on a strange beam right

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at our feet it was different than an

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ordinary light and it didn't radiate it

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was more like a laser beam another

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object sent down beams a light into the

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weapons storage area the whole time we

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had difficulty communicating with the

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base as all three radio frequencies we

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were using kept breaking up this

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activity continued for about an hour

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during this entire event I was fortunate

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to have with me and my small pocket

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recorder it's a little in there recorder

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that I carried around the base you need

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to take notes because I didn't like to

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write much so I recorded all the

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significant events that happened that

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night unfortunately the tape recorder is

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no longer functional but I do have a

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tape and a good copy of it I have no

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idea what we saw that night but I do

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know with great certainty it was under

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intelligent control I thank you for your

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attention and will be available for

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questions after