Update: Part 2 – 1980 RAF Bentwaters Lights and Craft Were “Extraterrestrial In Origin”

“Col. Halt could see that a UFO was shining a beam down into the weapons storage area.”

– Gary Heseltine, U. K. Transport Policeman

Former U. S. Air Force 1st Class Airman John Burroughs is now organizing a 2010 reunion in England for all the military personnel in RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge who were involved in the mysterious light phenomena of December 26 – 28, 1980. John would like to hear from all who were there and has created a website and email account to organize a 2010 Bentwaters reunion.

Website with email address:   http://backtobentwaters.blogspot.com/

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Update August 27, 2009 of July 19, 2009  Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England

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Col. Halt Saw Beam from UFO Shining
On Weapons Storage Area

Early morning hours of December 28, 1980

Lt. Col. Charles I. Halt described mysterious aerial light that emitted white, narrow, beam down in front of him and over the weapons storage facility (above), said to contain nuclear warheads, at RAF Bentwaters, England, in the early morning hours of December 28, 1980. Illustration by Jan Roth at www.rendlesham-incident.co.uk used with permission.
Lt. Col. Charles I. Halt described mysterious aerial light that emitted white, narrow, beam down in front of him and over the weapons storage facility (above), said to contain nuclear warheads, at RAF Bentwaters, England, in the early morning hours of December 28, 1980. Illustration by Jan Roth at www.rendlesham-incident.co.uk used with permission.

Gary Heseltine confirms that in the early morning hours of December 28, 1980, Col. Halt says he saw a white beam of light come from a bright, unidentified aerial object and aim downward to the RAF Bentwaters weapons storage area.

Gary Heseltine, Detective Constable, CID (Criminal Investigation Dept), British Transport Police, Wakefield, West Yorkshire County, England:   “And certainly after one point, and Halt corroborates this, he (Halt) said that over three radio channels that he was monitoring while he was out with his troops and as they were en route back, Col. Halt could see that a UFO was shining a beam down into the weapons storage area. And the script will deal with that aspect as well.

IS THAT CONFIRMED BY THE RADAR TOWER WATCHER?

Well, I don’t have his details so I can communicate with him. This is on the basis of what Halt is telling me of the communications that person has had with Halt. But what Col. Halt is significantly saying once and for all is that he was monitoring three radio channels and heard the person in the tower confirming over the radio that beams were being shone down as he (Halt) watched into the weapons storage area. And that’s a very significant thing for Col. Halt to say.

We had a situation where we had a strategic base where many numbers of U. S. Air Force policemen were involved regarding a weapons storage area.

THAT WAS NUCLEAR.

Which I believe was nuclear. And the reason why I believe it was nuclear – Col. Halt will never give you that definitive answer on that purely because of his Air Force allegiances. But my having worked on two U. K. air bases, if it were conventional weapons, non-nuclear, on an air force base there would be very few, if any, air force policemen guarding that facility.

But on the weapon storage area at Bentwaters and Woodbridge, there were 14 U. S. Air Force policemen guarding that facility and there was a whole host of mobile patrols ready to respond to any kind of threat. In total, there were 38 officers and airmen involved at the Bentwaters site. I leave it for you to draw your own judgments.

RIGHT, AND IT MEANS THAT WEAPONS STORAGE AREA NEEDED HIGH SECURITY AND THAT IS WHAT HAS ALWAYS GONE WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS STORAGE.

Correct. And that’s where my interest initially came from because I had been involved. They did at Bentwaters and Woodbridge exactly what I did in the Royal Air Force. And one of the key people is this person in the tower on the weapons storage area at Bentwaters and Woodbridge.

The simple reason is that in 1980, that high tower would have been way above all of the surrounding trees. The tower would have had a total 360-degree view, unobstructed. The trees would not be allowed to be at the level anywhere near that tower. And I’ve been up in those towers. And in fact, when we made the History Channel program, one of the things that I said was, ‘I want to go with Col. Halt up to that tower and see if he will talk about other witnesses.’

 December 2007, photograph from RAF Bentwaters/Woodbridge tower used to monitor underground Weapons Storage Area (WSA), that presumably included nuclear weapons heavily guarded in December 1980 by military security. Image © 2007 by Gary Heseltine.
December 2007, photograph from RAF Bentwaters/Woodbridge tower used to monitor underground Weapons Storage Area (WSA), that presumably included nuclear weapons heavily guarded in December 1980 by military security. Image © 2007 by Gary Heseltine.

When we did go up there in the tower, Halt did talk about another witness that had been in contact with him, but the witness wanted to remain anonymous because he had seen how much interest there has been in the witnesses – Penniston, Burroughs, Cabansag, and so on.

GARY, ASSUMING THAT TALL TOWER WAS THERE BECAUSE NUCLEAR WEAPONS WERE STORED UNDERGROUND AND THEY HAD 360-DEGREES CLEAR VISION OF EVERYTHING THAT WAS HAPPENING AT RENDLESHAM FOREST,  WHAT DO YOU HAVE ON THE RECORD THAT WAS SAID FROM THAT TOWER OPERATOR DURING THOSE THREE NIGHTS (DECEMBER 26 TO 28, 1980)?

There are scenes within the script that show that the person in the tower would have seen anything that was going on in the distance, would have been consulted with by senior officers who would have said, ‘Take a look outside,’ because he was in a high vantage point.

WHY DO YOU THINK IT TOOK NEARLY 30 YEARS FOR COL. HALT TO SAY TO YOU, ‘I BELIEVE THE OBJECTS I SAW AT CLOSE QUARTER WERE EXTRATERRESTRIAL IN ORIGIN.’?

In a sense, that’s down to me because I said to Col. Halt, ‘If we’re going to do this, then there is no point in you telling me things if we are not going to have ultimately a definitive statement from you. After 29 years, I would like a definitive statement from you about your recollections of what you saw and I think we need your statement to announce this film project to the press and obviously to create a stir, which hopefully it is doing.

And Col. Halt has reflected upon that and he has come out with those words (in June 25, 2009, press release). He is fully supportive of everything that I’ve done at every stage of collaboration process. I have asked him questions. He has come back. I have asked him further questions and he has come back. And then when it got to the stage of nearing completion at Christmas 2008, I said, ‘Look, this took a lot longer than I thought, but here is the first draft. I want you to change anything you are not happy with and let me know what you think.’

After Christmas, Col. Halt came back and said, ‘Excellent! There are one or two little things here and there, minor little tweaks.’ Then we’ve gone from there.

And he is aware that people will ask, “Why now do you make this kind of definitive statement?’ And the answer is that I have pushed him by saying, ‘Well, if that’s what you really believe then that’s what you have to put out because I don’t think you can be wishy-washy on this. You have to go with your genuine beliefs and pin them out there. And he has come back and is happy to do so and we have the quote.

January 13, 1981
Col. Charles I. Halt Memorandum

Paragraph 1. begins with wrong date – should be 26 Dec 80.

IF THERE ARE MANY EYEWITNESSES TO EVENTS IN THE RENDLESHAM FOREST NEAR BENTWATERS DECEMBER 26 – 28, 1980, AND IF SOME OF THOSE EYEWITNESSES WORKING IN THE MILITARY FEEL THAT COL. HALT’S PARTICULAR TIMELINE MIGHT NOT BE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT, WOULD YOU CONSIDER THE POSSIBILITY OF TALKING WITH THESE OTHER WITNESSES TO INCLUDE PERHAPS SOME OF THEIR PERCEPTIONS IN YOUR FILM?

Well, as a police officer and researcher, I want this to be as accurate as possible. Now, there are some inconsistencies from numerous people. However, the consensus of events are that in the Halt Memorandum that Col. Halt wrote to the M. O. D. (Ministry of Defence), Halt got the date wrong.

The original and controversial Lt. Col. Charles I. Halt Memorandum written on January 13, 1981, to the Royal Air Force/CC about “Unexplained Lights” investigated beyond the East Gate of RAF Woodbridge the first night of the phenomenon. Col. Halt now concedes that the first sentence date of “27 Dec 80” is incorrect and joins the consensus of others who were there that the first lights were investigated by Airman 1st Class John Burroughs, Staff Sergeant Jim Penniston and Airman 1st Class Edward Cabansag after midnight on December 26, 1980.
The original and controversial Lt. Col. Charles I. Halt Memorandum written on January 13, 1981, to the Royal Air Force/CC about “Unexplained Lights” investigated beyond the East Gate of RAF Woodbridge the first night of the phenomenon. Col. Halt now concedes that the first sentence date of “27 Dec 80” is incorrect and joins the consensus of others who were there that the first lights were investigated by Airman 1st Class John Burroughs, Staff Sergeant Jim Penniston and Airman 1st Class Edward Cabansag after midnight on December 26, 1980.

No two ways about it – he got the date wrong of the first night. So he has clarified in the script and it’s now a general consensus that the first night’s events were the early hours of Christmas night into Boxing Day (Dec. 25 to 26, 1980). The Penniston, Burroughs and Cabansag going out into the woods.

OH, I’M SO GLAD TO HEAR THIS THAT COL. HALT HAS NOW CONCEDED THAT WAS AN ERROR AND NOW PUTS HIM ON THE SAME PAGE WITH THE OTHERS.

I would not be doing my job if I didn’t say, ‘Hang on a minute! This doesn’t seem to ring right,’ when I was doing my research. ‘Is there any way you, Col. Halt, could have made a mistake?’

Especially when you tied it in with the police messages when the U. K. police turned up and things like that. It was clear that there was a mistake and that the first night was Christmas night into the early hours of Boxing Day. Halt now accepts that. So, that’s the first night.

Some people – and I know Burroughs will go with this – he believes something happened the night of December 26 to 27.

RIGHT.

But not many people say that, as far as I can see. So, the next main night is December 27th to 28th. And this is when, on December 27th, that Halt is at Woody’s Bar social function when he is informed the lights are back. He then puts together a small team to go out into the forest to go to the landing site to do measurements and trying to get light-alls out there. They do the measurements. They’ve got an image intensifier (StarScope). They find the broken branches; they find the small, blast area. They find the triangular markings, the depressions in the hard ground.

Then the red linking light that now has been linked with Halt is seen and then begins to move away from the landing area and they chase, or walk, through the woods following this winking object, winking like an eye that appears to be dripping molten metal, but no molten metal can be found. They go off to the farmer’s field.

Col. Halt Was Not Chasing the Orford Lighthouse Beacon

Now, this is an interesting thing and this is something that has never really been dealt with once and for all. As a police officer, I have worked in many incident rooms. If we were to analyze and re-run Rendlesham, if it had been run as a police incident, somebody would have come up and said, ‘Well, they just saw a lighthouse,’ which is one of the classic skeptical arguments put forward.

Well, here’s my counter to that. I stood at the edge of the farmer’s field with Halt and members of the U. S. History Channel program. And as we looked out to the farmer’s field, there was the farmer’s house that is referred to by Col. Halt with the aerial object casting a glow into the window because it was so close to the farm.

Now, Halt described the object as being a couple hundred meters away to the left of the farmhouse from where we stood in broad daylight. Halt pointed out across the field – there is the farmhouse pretty much directly ahead. And then to the left of it, he said was the aerial object low above the farmer’s field, glowing, shining a reflection into the windows of the farmhouse. It almost looked like it was on fire.

So, there we have Halt stood next to me and the U. S. History Channel crew saying to the left of the farmhouse was the glowing object, literally 15 feet above the farmer’s field. A clear, unobstructed view. And then Halt said, ‘Oh, now look to the right way on the horizon, that is where the Orford Ness lighthouse is – to the right of the farmhouse way off in the distance and in broad daylight, you could not see it. At night you would have seen it (lighthouse light). But the point is that the aerial object that Col. Halt saw 200 meters in darkness, a strange object in a clear, unobstructed view across the farmer’s field. The object is low to the ground and left of the farmhouse.

Col. Halt can see beacon lights of the Orford Ness lighthouse way on the horizon to the right of the farmhouse. So, let’s get this one thing clear once and for all. The light was not the lighthouse that Col. Halt saw!

RIGHT, AND HE WAS A COLONEL WHO WAS IN CHARGE OF A LOT OF MEN IN BENTWATERS AND WOODBRIDGE …

He was the Deputy Base Commander.

…YES, AS DEPUTY BASE COMMANDER TO EVEN HYPOTHESIZE THAT COL. HALT WOULD HAVE CONFUSED A LIGHTHOUSE IN AN AREA WHERE HE HAD BEEN WORKING FOR A LONG TIME WITH SOMETHING THAT HE AND OTHER MEN WERE CHASING THROUGH A FOREST, I HAVE ALWAYS THOUGHT WAS RIDICULOUS.

Well, it has always been ridiculous, but I do believe this is where the media as a whole have played a very important part in downplaying this entire subject, including the Rendlesham saga. For the simple reason that every documentary I’ve ever seen be made, whether it be U. S., Japanese, German or the U. K. – every one has played a lot of airtime about the lighthouse theory. And it contradicts what the men who were involved said and that is ignoring the evidence, the testimony, of multiple witnesses.

Look at the first night – Penniston, Burroughs and Cabansag. Cabansag gets put out as a relay when the radio starts to fade. Cabansag is left behind to act as a relay. And it’s Penniston and Burroughs that go forward. They see a landed object.

Penniston goes around it. Is that a lighthouse? That’s ludicrous! But all the media – whether newspapers, TV, documentaries – have always given this lighthouse theory a lot of airtime. And I believe that is a deliberate ploy by some aspects of the media to downplay the significance of this sighting and many others.

GARY, ISN’T IT POSSIBLE THAT THE LIGHTHOUSE WAS ACTUALLY PLANTED AND PROMOTED BY PEOPLE AT BENTWATERS – BOTH AMERICAN AND BRITISH – WHO WANTED TO DEFLECT MEDIA ATTENTION ON WHAT THEY KNEW WAS A HIGHLY IMPORTANT SERIES OF EVENTS OVER AT LEAST THREE NIGHTS THAT ‘AFFECTED NATIONAL SECURITY.’

That is the whole point and this is what Halt is saying. Now, Halt is also saying, ‘Why has nobody ever interrogated me? Why did I feel as if I had been kept out of the loop?’

And it was his belief that because of his seniority in rank that there was a deliberate decision made by the security services to exclude Halt from that process because of his high rank. And therefore, he has remained pretty much left alone.

Were the Rendlesham Forest Lights Telepathic Technologies Working for Time Travelers?

WHAT IS YOUR OWN PERCEPTION NOW ABOUT WHAT CAME UP IN THE JIM PENNISTON HYPNOSIS IN HIS OWN EFFORT TO RECOVER WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO HIM UNDER SODIUM PENTOTHAL – THAT WAS IN HIS 1994  HYPNOSIS SESSION TRYING TO RECOVER WHAT THE MILITARY HYPNOSIS HAD BEEN IN 1980.

IN THAT 1994 HYPNOSIS TRANSCRIPT THAT I DEAL WITH IN GLIMPSES, VOL. II: HIGH STRANGENESS, PENNISTON REFERS TO THE BEINGS IN THE CRAFT – THE INTELLIGENCE, HAVING TO DO WITH THE LIGHTS AND CRAFT IN THE RENDLESHAM FOREST – AS BEING TIME TRAVELERS COMING FAR BACK IN TIME, PERHAPS AS FAR BACK AS 40,000 TO 50,000 YEARS, IN AN EFFORT TO USE GENETIC MATERIAL FROM THE EARTH FOR ‘BAND-AIDS’ IN A HUGE PROBLEM THAT THE FUTURE TIME TRAVELERS ARE TRYING TO SOLVE.

When you say to the general public and try to talk about time travel, that’s probably on par with talking about human abductions with most people who are not following the UFO subject. Obviously, Penniston was regressed. These memories have come out. But in the end, we will never know how accurate those are.

I think from my point of view as a police detective trying to delve into this subject, I have tried to stay away from those kinds of aspects where we will simply never know. But what occurred is that Jim Penniston was given sodium pentothal and was interrogated. He saw an aerial object. He recorded it in his pocket notebook. He walked around it. He touched it. He submitted the photographs. They came out – some people would say mysteriously fogged.

3 Hours of Missing Time for Burroughs and Penniston?

One of the things that is very interesting about that first night with Penniston and Burroughs is that once they go off and leave Cabansag behind to act as a radio relay, that when they eventually come back, having seen the object on the ground, it rises and disappears. The two men then go and try to search for the craft. Eventually, they see a beacon light in the distance – what turns out to be the Orford Ness lighthouse. They had walked toward the lighthouse after the object had gone. They tried to find the object again. They think they see the same light again and they walk towards it for perhaps a couple of miles. Burroughs and Penniston then determine, ‘No, we’ve got close enough. We know what that light is. That’s the beacon light from the Orford Ness lighthouse.’ And they then turn around and go back towards the base.

Now, significantly, when they get back in to base – and I’ve covered this in the script – some people said, ‘You’ve been gone for three hours!’

THAT’S RIGHT. MISSING TIME.

The timeline allows for the possibility that to Burroughs and Penniston, it was an hour or two hours. But maybe, it was three hours! They could not explain it. And this is maybe where the aspect of regression and missing time and the abduction element might be true. But what I try to do is stick to the factual elements of the story.

Obviously, Col. Halt is a major player to evolve in a very close encounter with UFOs. And whether he likes it or not, one of the first things I said to him, I said, ‘You might have had a very distinguished career in the U. S. Air Force, but unfortunately whether you like it or not, you are going to be remembered as the man who wrote the Halt Memorandum.’

Interrogation of Bentwaters Witnesses

And the reality of it is this was a major event and there are clear admissions by many of the players involved that they were interrogated. And the reason why they were interrogated seems obvious to someone who has served in the Air Force – there are many occasions when politics and the military get involved in downplaying anything – whether it be 9/11 or anything like that. If people want to put out a false version, it can be done. These (counter-intelligence) methods have been used widely by the security services. So, to me, it would seem logical that somebody in the security services made the decision: ‘How can we downplay the significance of these first two events with Penniston and Burroughs first night and then the Halt team going out two nights later.

Literally this could be the case that is a house of cards and everything falls down and we’ve got to admit, ‘Hey, we’ve been lying to you for many, many years.’

ABOUT EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTERACTION.

Extraterrestrial visitation.

WE’RE TALKING ABOUT A PHENOMENON THAT OUR GOVERNMENT AND THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT HAVE A POLICY OF DENIAL IN THE INTEREST OF NATIONAL SECURITY AND HAVE HAD SINCE WORLD WAR II.

Yeah, I totally agree.

THAT MEANS WHEN AN EVENT LIKE BENTWATERS OCCURS, THERE ARE PROCEDURES IN PLAY TO MISINFORM THE PUBLIC AND THE MEDIA TO KEEP THEM AT BAY AND TO REINFORCE THE RIDICULOUS EXPLANATIONS BECAUSE OUR GOVERNMENT HAS LEARNED FOR A LONG TIME THAT IF YOU USE EVEN THE WORD ‘HOAX’ OR YOU COME UP WITH ANY STUPID EXPLANATION, THE PUBLIC AND MEDIA IN THE VAST MAJORITY WILL ACCEPT IT WITHOUT ANY ANY INVESTIGATION, INCLUDING THE NEW YORK TIMES.

NOW, THIS LEADS ME TO: IF YOU WERE JOHN BURROUGHS AND YOU HAD THE KIND OF REPEATING DREAMS THAT HE HAS, IF YOU WERE HAUNTED BY WHAT HE IS CONVINCED IS SUPPRESSED INFORMATION INSIDE OF HIS VERY MIND AND HE WANTS IT OUT. AND IN THE HYPNOSIS THAT WE HAVE DONE SO FAR, HE IS TALKING ABOUT HIMSELF AND PENNISTON ARE DEALING WITH BLUE LIGHTS THAT THEY REFER TO AS ‘TALKING’ TO THEM – IN OTHER WORDS, TELEPATHIC LIGHTS. AND AT ONE POINT, COL. HALT HIMSELF TALKS WITH BURROUGHS ABOUT THE LIGHTS THAT COMMUNICATED WITH THEM. THAT MEANS THAT THOSE POSSIBLE 3 HOURS OF MISSING TIME AND THE HYPNOSIS SESSIONS THAT HAVE SAID THAT PEOPLE IN THE TOWER LOOKED AT JOHN BURROUGHS AND SAID, ‘WE GOT A REPORT THAT YOU EITHER JUMPED UP ON THIS CRAFT OR YOU ROSE UP IN A BEAM OF LIGHT.’

IS IT POSSIBLE THAT JOHN BURROUGHS WAS TAKEN AND THAT TODAY FINALLY IN 2009, WE MIGHT BE CLOSE TO A BREAKTHROUGH IN HYPNOSIS IN HIS MIND  AND THAT HE MIGHT, OR MIGHT NOT, HOLD THE KEY TO WHAT EXACTLY WAS THE SOURCE AND AGENDA OF THESE INTERRACTORS IN THE RENDLESHAM FOREST IN 1980 THAT COL. HALT, NOW 30 YEARS LATER, SAYS WERE ‘EXTRATERRESTRIAL IN ORIGIN’?

Who knows. The reality is that there appears to be a genuine question that they could have been gone for three hours, which does not sit with either of them very well because neither of them felt they had been away for that length of time. Both have gone under hypnosis. Both have come out with accounts of interactions with beings or whatever. If that can be corroborated, great. But whoever gets hypnotized, whoever comes out with an account, in the end, it’s an account. Yes, they might corroborate each other from the hypnosis. But in the end, it is a strange account, which I’m not saying is not true. But what I’m saying is that what I’m trying to do with this story is to tell it from the most factual consensus point of view, so that if and when this film is ever made, it will reach a much wider audience than just the people who are interested in the subject.

Why 30 Years of Government Cover-Up?

DO YOU SPECULATE IN YOUR FILM SCRIPT ABOUT WHY THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN SUCH AN ENORMOUS COVER-UP FOR THE LAST 30 YEARS BY BOTH BRITISH AND AMERICAN GOVERNMENTS?

There was a cover-up of some kind. Now, I thought that before I met Halt and obviously having collaborated with him for 19 months, he has given me a much deeper insight into his beliefs. And he has said many times that he believed that the security services were involved in trying to put out disinformation. And I think what Halt is saying by the word disinformation is that there are many aspects of Cradles that a lot of people cannot agree on. His take on that is that certain airmen – not just one, but several airmen – were interrogated and fed false information to say things that might not necessarily have happened, but the airmen believed they had happened.

And it was done to downplay the significance of the first night, which was principally Penniston and Burroughs and then two nights later, when Col. Halt and four others led a forward party following an aerial object through the Rendlesham Forest, after having examined the landing site from two nights earlier.

Yes, I personally do believe that it’s something the British and Americans are capable of because history tells us that in literally every other sphere of politics that if something needs to be hidden, then it can be hidden.

If something needs to have disinformation, then disinformation can be put out there. They are well-worn counterintelligence techniques, not just necessarily that apply only to the UFO community.

So, I genuinely believe there was a conspiracy. There are many wild aspects to the case and I don’t think we are probably – even with the film script we have now – I still don’t think we really know any more than 75% of what has occurred.

But what is clear is that from many of the people (who were at Bentwaters), they were interrogated. So, that is a fact. That seems to be a consensus fact that there was some kind of interrogation process by the U. S. security services.”

Date, addressee and signature of sender blacked out on alleged U. K. Ministry of Defence memorandum that describes non-human entities in “the landing of a craft of unknown origin crewed by several entities near RAF Bentwaters on the night of December 29 to 30, 1980.” If that date is correct, then is it a fourth night of phenomena - or another incorrect date?
Date, addressee and signature of sender blacked out on alleged U. K. Ministry of Defence memorandum that describes non-human entities in “the landing of a craft of unknown origin crewed by several entities near RAF Bentwaters on the night of December 29 to 30, 1980.” If that date is correct, then is it a fourth night of phenomena – or another incorrect date?

A decade ago, a 1997 book about Bentwaters entitled Left At East Gate, was written by Larry Warren and Peter Robbins. [ An updated 2005 edition of the book was published by Cosimo Press, N. Y.] Larry was working RAF Bentwaters and Woodbridge security back in December 1980 and had his own experiences in the Rendlesham Forest with lights and craft described in the book.

On Page 413, Peter Robbins recounts a discussion with Col. Charles Halt back in 1994 in which the Colonel revealed that light beams had penetrated the hardened bunkers in the Bentwaters’ weapons storage area. That means the military had evidence that the UFO beam went through layers of soil, concrete and metal into the missiles. The assumption is that the nuclear missile guidance systems were tampered with exactly as underground Minutemen nuclear missiles were affected by UFOs at  Malmstrom AFB, Montana, and Minot AFB, North Dakota,  in 1967 and 1968.

Adding another layer of complexity to the Bentwaters mystery is a hypnosis session that former Bentwaters USAF Staff Sgt. Jim Penniston did in 1994, trying to recover more memories. He remembered touching the dark, glassy surface of a triangular craft and getting a telepathic download into his mind that: “They are time travelers. They are us.
… and they are using us like Band-Aids.”

You can see much more of Jim Penniston’s fascinating 1994 hypnosis transcript, as well as an October 2008 hypnosis session done with John Burroughs, at Earthfiles Parts 3 and 4. John is trying to learn why some military eyewitnesses reported that he either jumped up on a craft or was taken up in a beam of light.

John Burroughs is now trying to contact all the military personnel from RAF Bentwaters and Woodbridge who were involved in the mysterious light phenomena of December 1980. John would like to hear from all who were there and he has created a website to organize a 2010 Bentwaters reunion: http://backtobentwaters.blogspot.com/

 

Continued in Part 3.


More Information:

For further information about the worldwide UFO phenomena, please see Earthfiles Archive  (partial 2009 list below) and my books, An Alien Harvest and the 2-volume Glimpses of Other Realities in the Earthfiles Shop.

  • 07/19/2009 —Part 2: 1980 RAF Bentwaters Lights and Craft Were “Extraterrestrial In Origin”
  • 07/17/2009 —Part 1: 1980 RAF Bentwaters Lights and Craft Were “Extraterrestrial In Origin”
  • 07/16/2009 —Part 2: Silbury Hill “Quetzlcoatl Headdress” and Mysterious Tall Blonds
  • 07/14/2009 —Part 5: Non-Human Entities (NHEs): One View from Alleged Government Insiders
  • 07/12/2009 —Mysterious Aerial Lights Mimicking Stars in Texas and Oregon
  • 07/06/2009 —Part 4: Non-Human Entities (NHEs):
  • 06/25/2009 —Part 3: Non-Human Entities (NHEs): One View from Alleged Government Insiders
  • 06/21/2009 —Part 2: Non-Human Entities (NHEs): One View from Alleged Government Insiders
  • 06/17/2009 —Part 1: Non-Human Entities (NHEs): One View from Alleged Government Insiders
  • 06/09/2009 —Update Podcast: Aerial Lights That Mimic Stars, Helicopters and Airplanes
  • 06/05/2009 —Part 2: Mysterious, Silent, Large Aerial Triangles
  • 06/04/2009 —Part 1: Mysterious, Silent, Large Aerial Triangles
  • 06/01/2009 —Part 10: High Strangeness Files about EBENs
  • 05/29/2009 —Part 3: 1954 SOM1-01 Training Manual and Challis, Idaho, Huge Triangle
  • 05/29/2009 —Part 4: 1954 SOM1-01 Training Manual and Challis, Idaho, Huge Triangle
  • 05/28/2009 —Part 1: Idaho Hunters Describe Huge Triangle Aircraft Over Their Campsite
  • 05/28/2009 —Part 2: Idaho Hunters Describe Huge Triangle Aircraft Over Their Campsite
  • 05/26/2009 —Part 9: High Strangeness Files about EBENs
  • 05/13/2009 —Part 8: High Strangeness Files about EBENs
  • 05/05/2009 —Part 7: High Strangeness Files about EBENs
  • 04/29/2009 —Part 6: High Strangeness Files about EBENs
  • 04/22/2009 —Part 5: High Strangeness Files about EBENs
  • 04/21/2009 —Archive Reprint: Apollo Astronaut Edgar Mitchell Says Governments Covering Up E. T.s
  • 04/14/2009 —Part 4: High Strangeness Files about EBENs
  • 04/08/2009 —Part 3: High Strangeness Files about EBENs
  • 04/05/2009 —Part 2: High Strangeness Files about EBENs
  • 04/03/2009 —Updated: Aerial Disc Photographed Over San Luis, Colorado
  • 04/01/2009 —Part 1: High Strangeness Files about EBENs
  • 03/17/2009 —Highly Strange Missing Time in 1947
  • 03/08/2009 —Final Part 20: Army/CIA Unit Studied the Real UFO Blue Book Cases
  • 02/27/2009 —More Strange Aerial Light Patterns – Now in Wisconsin
  • 02/24/2009 —Part 19: Army/CIA Unit Studied the Real UFO Blue Book Cases
  • 02/11/2009 —Part 18: Army/CIA Unit Studied the Real UFO Blue Book Cases
  • 02/04/2009 —Part 17: Army/CIA Unit Studied the Real UFO Blue Book Cases
  • 02/03/2009 —Part 1: Viewer Comments On Camouflaged V-Shaped Craft
  • 01/29/2009 —Updated: Star Field Camouflage On Large V-Shaped Craft Near Cape Canaveral, Florida?
  • 01/07/2009 —Part 16: Army/CIA Unit Studied the Real UFO Blue Book Cases
  • 01/02/2009 —Part 15: Army/CIA Unit Studied the Real UFO Blue Book Cases
  • 12/24/2008 —Part 14: Army/CIA Unit Studied the Real UFO Blue Book Cases
  • 12/22/2008 —Part 2: CIA, UFOs and Hollywood

Websites:

The Rendlesham Forest Incident:   http://www.rendlesham-incident.co.uk

You Can’t Tell the People © 2000 by Georgina Bruni:
http://www.amazon.com/You-Cant-Tell-People-Cover-up/dp/0283063580/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251680102&sr=1-1

Left At East Gate © 1997 by Larry Warren and Peter Robbins; updated 2005 edition published by Cosimo Press, N.Y.:  http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Left+At+East+Gate&x=0&y=0

1967 Malmstrom AFB UFOs Over Minuteman Missile Sites:
http://www.cufon.org/cufon/malmstrom/malm1.htm

1968 Minot AFB UFOs Over Minuteman Missile Sites: http://www.ufocasebook.com/minotafb.html

Police Reporting UFO Sightings, PRUFOS:  http://www.prufospolicedatabase.co.uk/1.html

Jets Chase UFOs Over Bentwaters in 1956:  http://www.ufocasebook.com/bentwaters1956.html

Warminster UFOs:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warminster

Majestic 12 Documents:  http://www.majesticdocuments.com

American Presidents:  http://www.presidentialufo.com


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