Reported and Edited by Linda Moulton Howe
“From the big blue light, these smaller ‘sparks’ kind of floated downward on to Weslaco. Then I looked up at the blue light and it dissipated, ate itself up (from the outside into blackness).”
- Jose Gonzalez, College Student, Weslaco, Texas
May 27, 2010 Weslaco, Texas - Over the past forty years, there have been many high strangeness UFO reports from the Brownsville to Harlingen, Texas, region near the Gulf of Mexico. Here are some case files from Unexplained! © 1999 edition by Jerome Clark.
“Right after the chartreuse beam came down and engulfed me, it might have been a second or two later, these four alien beings showed up in the beam circling around me.”
- Steve Askew, Leggett, California
May 26, 2010 Spokane, Washington - Forty-nine years ago on September 16, 1960, Steve Askew (birth name withheld at request) was born in Tacoma, Washington. That's where he grew up and graduated from high school in 1978. For a decade, he worked with road construction crews. Then in 1989, Steve enrolled in a Spokane college where he studied water resources, graduated with a degree in hydrography and water quality and worked for the USGS until a car accident in 2002 permanently damaged his spinal cord.
“This Woodward County bat infected with white-nose fungus is the first known record of Geomyces destructans in Oklahoma's Region 2.”
- Richard Stark, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Oklahoma
May 20, 2010 New York, New York - The Natural Resources Defense Council reports that the white-nose fungus, Geomyces destructans, has spread faster and farther by May 2010 than anyone expected. The fungus has been wiping out bat populations along the eastern U. S. and spreading north into Quebec and Ontario, Canada. Now it is in the Great Smoky Mountains and other caves of Tennessee and has spread into Missouri. On May 18, 2010, the International Society for Infectious Diseases reported from Missouri:
“The rate of honey bee loss experienced by the industry is unsustainable.”
- Apiary Inspectors of America Survey, Winter 2009-2010
Updated: May 5, 2010 Gainesville, Florida - On April 22, 2010, the Apiary Inspectors of America (AIA) and the U. S. Department of Agriculture ARS Honey Bee Lab in Beltsville, Maryland, reported, “Preliminary Results: Honey Bee Colonies Losses in the U. S., Winter 2009-2010.” [ See More Information below for complete summary report.]
“It just sat there. That blue-red, big, object didn’t go anywhere. It just sat in one spot. I think you could have put a crosshair on it and that big light never would have moved.”
- Rick Bobo, Former USAF Sgt. and Security Flight Chief, RAF Bentwaters WSA
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April 30, 2010 Albuquerque, New Mexico: The RAF Bentwaters Weapons Storage Area (WSA) had nuclear weapons in December 1980 – a TOP SECRET at the time. Those nuke bunkers were watched around the clock by security from the WSA Alarm Station Watch Tower. The Delta Flight Security Chief in the Bentwaters tower the night of December 27- 28 was Sergeant Rick Bobo. The tower was fifty feet above the ground to give a clear, 360-degree view. Sgt. Bobo's priority was to report any threat to the WSA. That night, he watched a large, reddish-blue light in the sky that hovered stationary for nearly two hours and also emitted a smaller light that sped rapidly down into Rendlesham Forest. At least twice, Sgt. Bobo phoned Central Security Control (CSC) and in each call, he was told the situation was under control because there was an investigation in the forest. Apparently that was the same night that RAF Bentwaters Deputy Base Commander Lt. Col. Charles Halt investigated lights and beam phenomena in Rendlesham Forest.
“I knew that craft was not from any form of government - I mean, no air force on Earth. It was beyond our (human) capability.”
- Former Staff Sgt. Jim Penniston, RAF Bentwaters
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April 27, 2010 Albuquerque, New Mexico - On June 25, 2009, USAF Col. Charles I. Halt (Ret.), former Deputy Base Commander at RAF Bentwaters, England, in December 1980, went on the record to state:
“We’re observing what appears to be a beam coming down to the ground! This is unreal!”
- Former RAF Bentwaters Deputy Base Commander Lt. Col. Charles I. Halt
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April 21, 2010 Albuquerque, New Mexico - According to John Burroughs, even though his C FLIGHT was off duty December 27, 1980, that night at 11 PM when D Flight was back for its second midnight shift, John Burroughs was there, too.
If John is correct on the date, it is the early morning hours of December 28, 1980, that Deputy Base Commander Charles Halt assembled a security and law enforcement team to go with him into Rendlesham Forest with a tape recorder, light-alls, radios, radiation meters and photographic equipment. 1) RAF Bentwaters Deputy Base Commander Charles I. Halt.
“The occupants or intelligences controlling these spheres, in our opinion, were making it quite clear that they were aware of us.”
– Phil Hoyle, U. K. Animal Pathology Field Unit
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- Continuing in Part 2 with Phil Hoyle, Investigator and Researcher for the U. K.'s Animal Pathology Field Unit, about the night of March 12 - 13, 2010, when he and his colleague, Mike Freebury, videotaped on a tripod above valley where red spheres and beams appeared to have a “Star Wars” battle for at least two hours. Brief video excerpt is included in this Earthfiles report. The nearby farm is where persistent sheep mutilations occurred from March 2009 to February 2010.
“If you took three handfuls of colored fire and put them together and you saw one color and then saw another color and saw another color, you would get the feeling that it’s not blinking, but that it was turning.”
- Former RAF Bentwaters Airman Lori Buoen
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April 17, 2010 Albuquerque, New Mexico - The computer graphic below was produced by John Burroughs and U. K. researcher, John Rackham, of what John remembers seeing in the forest on December 26, 1980.
“The lights were red and blue, the red one above the blue one and they were flashing on and off. Because I never saw anything like that coming from the woods before, we decided to drive down and see what it was.”
- January 2, 1981, Statement, Airman 1st Class John Burroughs, 81st Security Police Squadron, Bentwaters AFB, U. K.
April 16, 2010 Albuquerque, New Mexico - On April 10, 2010, at the Eureka Springs, Arkansas, UFO conference, I presented a 2-hour update of my continued investigation of the December 1980 to January 1981, unidentified aerial lights and craft phenomena at the then-joint U. S. and U. K. RAF Bentwaters and Woodbridge air base northeast of London in Suffolk County, England. I have broken that 2-hour presentation down into several parts that begin today in Part 1.
In 1942, the British Royal Air Force constructed an air base between Butley and Tunstall (larger pink circle near top of map) in Suffolk County, England, on the northeastern edge of Rendlesham Forest. It was called RAF Butley – about 4 miles northeast of RAF Woodbridge (large pink circle on far left). More trees were planted to build up the Rendlesham Forest in the 1940s to help shield military activities.